Clever premise hampered by poor acting and writing

I just watched this on cable. There were some interesting bits, but halfway through I decided to fast forward through the animated sequences and just watch the live action parts. Some thoughts:

Pro:
* The premise was clever - a high level executive having to master his own video game to save his wife.
* The different gamer backgrounds they wrote for his top-raking teammates.
* The attempt at merging long machinima sequences into a live action movie.

Con:
* The acting was consistently dry and unbelievable.
* The animation quality was too primitive to be used for such lengthy parts of the film.
* Had conceptual flaws that any average gamer could spot, making me wonder why the writers weren't more accurate in portraying video games.

I'll expand on my last point about the flaws. * I can easily believe a CEO doesn't spend his time playing his company's games, but it's laughable to think he'd be surprised that they contain voice chat, or that the players are actually from different parts of the country. * Game controller buttons aren't pressure sensitive (at the moment), so you can't "press harder to yell." * His team doesn't play like top-ranked gamers - they're pretty idle and inactive during battle. * The lips of the video game characters move in sequence to the players voice chat, and at one point a game NPC responds to a player's verbal question!

My last comment is on the credits. Yes, I know this is an independent production. But if you have to list your own name more than three times, you're just trying to flatter yourself. You can't stretch a dozen names (with a few common last names!) across two hundred credits.