Underplayed Gems

Hooked on the Game (2009)

Hooked on the Game poster
Original title
На игре
Directed by
Pavel Sanayev
Genre
action film, cyberpunk, science fiction film
Country
Russia
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
16+
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 69 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A group of video game players find that their gaming skills become real when they are thrust into a dangerous game that blurs the line between fiction and reality. They must use their abilities to survive.

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What happens

Hooked on the Game (Russian: На игре, romanized: Na igre) is a 2009 Russian action film directed by Pavel Sanayev, it is an adaptation of the science-fiction comic book about to video gamers. It is based on Alexander Chubaryan's novel Games into Life. The working title of the film was Gamers. In Search of a Goal, but it was changed to Hooked on the Game, due to the release of the movie Gamer starring Gerard Butler. In April 2010, the sequel Hooked on the Game: A New Level was released. In the spring of 2012, STS hosted the premiere of the 8-episode television series Gamers, a continuation of the films Hooked on the Game and Hooked on the Game: A New Level. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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