The action movie gamer is like the internet itself: completely insane. Gerard Butler shoots his way through a deadly online gaming world in the gum-and-latex smasher. However, the ultra-brutal action was too much for the German mind at the end of the 2000s and it was released in cinemas in an abridged FSK 18 version. Starting today, you can stream gamers in this version on Amazon Prime Video by subscription.
To date, despite several versions, there is no completely uncensored German version – and Too loud neck breaks are to blame.
There are 3 German versions of Gamer with Gerard Butler – not the most blatant one streams on Amazon Prime Video
The Action by Gamer is as simple as it is shocking: A billionaire invents a perfidious online game in which convicts sentenced to death are controlled by so-called gamers. The prisoners compete against each other in real life and shoot each other down mercilessly. Kable (Gerard Butler) is being controlled by teenage boy Simon (Logan Lerman) – so successfully that his pardon is within reach.
In modern gladiatorial combat, bones break, body parts fly, and sweat, blood, and screams mix. This is even for the directing duo Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank). new level of wacky cruelty. Because it doesn’t just stay with the arena shooter. People are also thrown into perverse The Sims cuts where gamers let them abuse and torment each other.
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Gamers: Amber Valletta and Gerard Butler
Cut reports unravel gamer’s version chaos. Fearing that the film would have to be cut at short notice for the cinema, the German distributor Universum Film cut it short shortened by 20.8 seconds. This FSK 18 cinema version You can now stream it on Amazon Prime Video.
A FSK-16 version was later released on DVD, missing a full 8 minutes and 33 seconds. The most blatant version is only available in Germany on Blu-ray. She will as “uncut” touted. However, this is only true for the original English soundtrack. For the German soundtrack, a few cracking necks that were too loud were softened.
The three versions of Gamer at a glance:
FSK-18 theatrical version (20.8 seconds shortened) – stream on Amazon Prime Video *
To this day there is no German version of Gamer in which the complete heaviness of the original was taken over.
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