Hooked on the Game
Genres
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
Details
Budget
$3500000
Revenue
$3704408
Runtime
97 min
Release Date
2009-11-26
Status
Released
Original Language
Russian
Vote Count
62
Vote Average
5.8
Sergey Chirkov
Vampire
Pavel Priluchnyy
Doc
Agniya Ditkovskite
Lena
Viktor Verzhbitskiy
Boris Sergeevich
Igor Sklyar
Sergei Zaritsyn
Mikhail Gorevoy
Pokrovsky
Marina Petrenko
Rita
Evgeniy Kharlanov
Mosquito
Tikhon Zhiznevsky
Long
Nodar Siradze
Yan
Aleksey Bardukov
Max
Boris Tenin
Lebedev
Mikhail Trukhin
Skolsky
Vladimir Shiryaev
Lebedev's assistant
Anton Syomkin
Sergey Burunov
Stanislav Lesnoy
Aleksey Shemes
Sergey Kholmogorov
Dmitriy Martynov
Elena Molchenko
Vladimir Laptev
Soslan Fidarov
Yuri Safarov
Vladimir Kolida
Sergey Blokhin
Mikhail Vodzumi
Yuriy Nikulin
lecturer
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5.3
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4.3
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4.3
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2012-05-19 | ja
5.0
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7.3
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5.0
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5.7
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6.1
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5.2
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6.3
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6.3
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5.9
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4.3
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3.7
Are You Scared
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7.0
13 Tzameti
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4.3
Dance to Death
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5.5
Mean Guns
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6.1
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6.6
Intact
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