Hooked on the Game

You win a cyber sports tourney and get a CD of a game that turns your skills IRL. Then authorities co-opt you into service via blackmail. But you learn you're just a paid assassin. Sanaev's lens on early-aughts Russia implicates gamer culture in a new kind of arms race.

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Pavel Sanaev directed Hooked on the Game in 2009. See Pavel Sanaev's full filmography, where to start with Pavel Sanaev, or where to go after you've seen everything by Pavel Sanaev.

Hooked on the Game was released in 2009 (RU original-language production), with a runtime of 97 minutes.