Ready Player One – A Movie Review
In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spends their days. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone-the only limits are your own imagination. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the Oasis to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir. When Wade conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends-aka the High Five-are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Zak Penn, Ernest Cline
Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Lena Waithe, Win Morisaki, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Philip Zhao
Release Date: 29 March 2018; Runtime: 140 min; Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi; Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action violence, bloody images, some suggestive material, partial nudity and language
We actually went to see this at the theater on Saturday, April 21. Lay had never seen a movie in 3D, so we splurged at watched it at AMC Westshore in 3D. I agreed with him this should be a great movie for that format.
It wasn’t a terrible movie, but it barely touches on the bottom side of OK. As you expect from Speilberg, the visuals were excellent, and it did work in 3D, but didn’t take advantage of the format to pull you in, so I wouldn’t recommend spending the extra to watch it in 3D. In fact, I wouldn’t pay to see it at all. Wait for it on Netflix, and when you don’t have anything else to watch…maybe then.
I wasn’t expecting it to be deep, but I was at least expecting it to be enjoyable. Sadly, between the cringy token romance and the ridiculous plot holes, it lost all the appeal for me. It didn’t have a cohesive aesthetic, to say the least. This movie is less of a movie and more of review of all pop culture of the last three decades. One of the most glaring issues is the onslaught of huge plot holes that are never addressed to any extent. It did have a good score by Alan Silvestri and some of its allegorical undertones certainly ring true.
It gets three stars from me. One for the score, one for making a 3D version, and the third for all the fun references to the old games from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
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