I often find it hard to assign number ratings to "so bad, they're good" movies since even though they're objectively trash, they can still be a lot of fun. However I just couldn't resist scoring this a 1.0.

I have a fondness for 2000's era garbage as it's currently the most recent period to become noticeably campy. I'm sure the 2010's will have their day, but I can't say there's anything particularly funny about them just yet. Gamebox 1.0 hits all the marks of 00s cheese and wraps them around a timelessly silly concept.

Kicking into high gear right out the gate, the nu-metal/industrial score lets you know you're in for a ride. From there, the playlist hits all the stops of dated rap, metal and techno, with everything sounding like a cheap knock off of something else popular at the time.

It's the visual effects that really steal the show though. For the majority of the film we're treated to an overload of bad CGI. In some ways, it can be forgiven, since they're in a game, so it's not supposed to be realistic. However they manage to go so overboard with the various distortions that it just feels like a film student screwing around with Photoshop filters. Plus it includes the absolute loosest interpretation of what could constitute a zombie that's ever been put to film.

The story moves fast and is easy to follow, matching it's goofy action with cornball sensitivity. The icing on the cake is of course the ensemble of random TGIF sitcom stars who you almost pity for getting involved in this straight to video flop. Weirdly, the film goes out of it's way to name drop eXistenZ and Videodrome, just in case you needed a reminder that superior movies with the same premise already existed.

First there are some plot holes in this movie. We see in the very beginning a kid dies from playing the game. But who was tied up in the mail truck delivering the package which contains the game? How did the driver place the package into the mailbox when he was lashed to the steering wheel? It is not like he was Mr. Fantastic. Wow that in just the first 15 minutes... The actors are second rate, take the "Bad Guy" played by Patrick Kilpatrick (who?) exactly he has appeared in one episode of everything on TV and some secondary roles in poor movies (like this one). So most of the acting is like TV dramas, I can live with that, but the graphics or special effects are horrible. The disembodied "Game" voice sounds like a poor clone of Hal from "Space Oddessy 2000". What they called Zombies looked more like shadows jumping around like monkeys from "Planet of the Apes". The Aliens had transparent bodies like the shadow zombies. In most cases, the movie was just predictable as it had no hook or hidden agenda going. The story was a good idea but like most good ideas discussed over lunch was never developed beyond that good idea stage.

Can't believe the other critics didn't recognise Sabrinas boyfriend. This is another movie about video games. Did X-Box have a share in this or did everyone get a free one? The opening sequence is a guy seemingly having an epileptic fit in his sleep whilst playing this game in his dreams. Dies in game dies for real. So that is the premise. The movie is about a guy who works as a video game checker finding faults and bloopers in video games. Good job. He then gets sent a game through the post. Why maybe because the game seeks out the vulnerable of this world. But then why get too deep. Its only a game. Or is it? Nate (real name) decides to play the game a la Existenz and the lines get extremely blurred as he can not awaken from this game and when he does, by his friends waking him etc he is still having psychotic flashes. So the lines are truly sullied. The characters in his game are made up of his friends, his dead girlfriend and the crocked cop who shot her as the bad dude. He starts off playing one game and then enters the others through windows holes in the ground etc. The game he begins is as a spy and at first it is fun shooting people, who just happen to look like his friends, and driving fast cars and bikes, with no lights or speed limits to worry about. When he meets the girl character that resembles his girlfriend things get interesting, difficult and a little scary for him. In the real world he again confronts the crocked cop,who, not satisfied with killing his one true love, puts Nate in a coma where the game continues. The thing about this film is it appears in mostly sepia format and that can make it a little hard to get used to, but you warm to it and I ended up enjoying it. Slow to start but develops quite well and the writing is not too corny. The ending, Well I wont tell.