Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on December 2010

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Latest effort by the tasteful guys who gave us the Crank movies explores a degenerate world that has merged porn and punishment into a lethal online game, delicately titled Slayer, that involves avatars of death-row convicts, controlled by brain implants, killing to win their freedom (with the most successful gaining acclaim from a bloodthirsty, pay-per-view public). Story follows one such unfortunate (a wrongly convicted family man), played by the increasingly tedious Gerard Butler, who tries to escape the game’s environment, etc., etc. Incoherent, seizure-inducing waste of celluloid (and your money).