In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive 30 session in order to be set free. Or won't he?
Set in a future-world where human can control other human in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player from a game called "Slayer" looks to regain his independence while taking down the game's mastermind.The film's story is set contribution in the not too distant future, be imprisoned in the death row prisoners guilty of Kabel (played by Gerard Butler), unwittingly became the hero of the popular culture of that era. Multiplayer online games, extreme violence, because a week, around the world tens of thousands of pairs of eyes are called "through-line of a murderer" (Slayers) watch he grappled with the fate of hundreds of other criminals, the game played by scientific and technological genius Ken Castle (Michael Hall) invented. In the eyes of the young and wealthy players can control the game characters every move, Kable is just a virtual role. This with a high-tech slavery color games to dissenting people, and The Kable become the key factor in the collapse of the inventor of the Castle in the battle. Under the cross hairs of the two-party confrontation between the forces aimed at the remote under the control of a teenage players must display their own extraordinary fighting skills to flee the game, and destroyed the Castle and the game system.
In the not too distant future the world, online game popular around the world, but play with now move the mouse keyboard mode of operation is not the same, but the player's nerve endings access, you can directly manipulate the game character. operation game character, but is a living reality. The developers of the game is billionaire Ken Picasso (Michael C. Hall decorated), he used those on death row in prison around the world as the role of players in the virtual world, the fate of those on death row in full control of manipulation the hands of their players, while Ken Picasso of these death row who claims that as long as 30 wins, then you will be able to regain freedom.
Simon (decorated with Logan Lerman) is a young game madman, dubbed "the killer" game he has received countless victory, and he manipulated in the game The role is Keppel (Gerard Butler ornaments). A week Simon will manipulate Keppel after wave of enemies on Fuyi Bo, fight on the battlefield, killing, and then to win the victory, and gradually, Keppel became a well known hero in this game. Keppel in real life is a trap into the prisons of the poor man, he, with a strong will to survive, we must to survive in this game, so that they will have the opportunity to come to the outside world to see their loved ones. But Keppel also understand that if it relies on its own strength, can only ever be a Ken Picasso arranged in a virtual game Gladiator, want to regain the freedom of opportunity is very slim, so he and Simon, Through the many trials of the real game. Ken Picasso naturally, will not easily let Keppel complete 30-game victory. This life to do the stakes game, who can have the last laugh then?
