Movie
Hooked on the Game
2009 · 97 min
A flashy, fast-paced ride where gaming skills become real-world violence, entertaining but hollow.
- Directed by
- Pavel Sanaev
- Genres
- Action, Science fiction
- Starring
- Sergey Chirkov, Pavel Priluchny, Agniya Ditkovskite
- Overview
- After a stunning victory at a cyber sport tournament, the winning gamers are awarded CDs with a brand new game. After playing this game, each of them is affected with some force, turning their gaming abilities into real ones. They each become the best fighters, shooters and racers in real life. However, this does not go unnoticed. Through blackmail, cheating and bribes, authorities offer the gamers a "job". But as soon as the lies are revealed it becomes clear that they are not heroes saving their country but nothing more than paid assassins. Moreover, the producer of the game is keeping many more of the same CDs, so many more "heroes" like themselves could also be produced. Now the gamers have to find the CDs and either destroy them or create an army of gamers and rule over all. The team becomes divided into two, each pitted against the other
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- Directed by
- Pavel Sanaev
- Genres
- Action, Science fiction
- Starring
- Sergey Chirkov, Pavel Priluchny, Agniya Ditkovskite
