A decently fun movie with some very deep flaws. The premise is not overly original in that we have "slayers" that are death-row inmates who are pitted against each other to accomplish objectives or die trying. The slayers are controlled by players over the Internet as if it were a third-person video game. Hence the title.

The motivation for the slayers is to survive 25 matches and then they are set free, debt paid to society. They actually volunteer for this which suggests that in the future violent criminals are even dumber than they are today. For those that feel that aren't exactly combat proficient can volunteer to be random people throughout the gaming area that are given a simple task yet do not control themselves. If they survive one match then they go free. Few survive as the players seem to take great delight in killing them as soon as possible.

Our hero is Kable, the most successful of the slayers and has almost survived his mandatory 25 matches. He is the typical hero character for this type movie, no real surprises. He was framed for his crime, he has a family to get back to and he is the perfect killing machine.

Of course he cannot succeed in completing 25 matches because that would be bad for some reason that is never fully explained.

Kable is controlled by a young guy that has achieved rock star status for his ability to lead Kable to victory. Yet at the same time it's never made clear if he really is the gaming god they make him out to be. It turns out the gamer only guides the slayer in the direction he looks and in his movement. The part about actually shooting people is up to the slayer. So the player is good at moving Kable around but for the fighting part we don't know if he's any good.

The technology throughout the movie is rather futuristic but contradictory at the same time. Here we have a game that is played over the internet where you control someone with your movements while you watch what the guy does from the 3rd person perspective. You see this by what has got to be beyond high definition video. In real time. But, they mention there is a lag between a player's command and a slayer's reaction. How about we cut back on the 50k pixel by 100k pixel video to eliminate that lag? Another example, one moment computer security in the future is so advanced that it is a strange thought for someone to hack into a properly secured system. Then fifteen minutes later a kid with no real computer skills installs a mod into this secure system without anyone realizing it. Huh?

As can be expected Kable starts to figure out what's going on and works to stop the bad guys from doing the bad things they want to do. He's helped by some underground rebel group that seems to have lots of useful information at hand with very little understanding how they managed to obtain it.

The movie wouldn't have been that bad except for the overwhelming amount of sexual imagery. Apparently in the future everybody lives for either extreme violence or weird sexual experiences. We're treated with lots of violence in the beginning, then we get lots of naked people and ending with a fair bit of more violence.

The sexual imagery would have been fine, even with the large amount of it, if not for the fact it made absolutely  no sense in context of the story.

If you've watched similar movies then probably you already know how it ends.

Just a bit of a disappointment for me.