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MEANRANK
48/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5445
- IMDb #4947
- Google retired #3625
- Rotten Tomatoes #4569
- Metacritic #4956
- Letterboxd #5372
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4763
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4601
- Metacritic Critics #4873
- Metacritic Audience #4724
- Criticker #3641
- Douban #2445
- Kinopoisk #3705
- AlloCiné #4994
- Trakt #4641
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 27, highest is Kinopoisk on 66. Critics average 28, everyone else 52.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a near-future world, mind-control technology allows players to control real people in mass-scale, live-action video games. The world's most famous champion is a death-row inmate controlled by a teenage prodigy. If he can survive 30 sessions of the brutal game 'Slayers,' he will earn his freedom. He begins to rebel against his controller to break out of the game and expose its corrupt creator.
Details
- Directors
- Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
- Writers
- Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine
- Released
- 3 September 2009
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $40.8M
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