Review of Free Guy (2021) by Lipino — 16 Oct 2021

Truman Show + Westworld + Ryan Reynolds brand humor + impressive special effects. A fun lightweight movie, similar to Pixels, the Adam Sandler movie that got panned but I thought was pretty entertaining.

You do have to put your brain away and try not to think about the logic of it. There weren't a lot of big laughs for me, but it ended strong with "Dude." There were also some "woke" lines that were cringy, basically to the effect of "men are all trash" (it's funny how it's always men who write stuff like that into movies.

I guess they're trying to impress their wives/mistresses.) Also a "white privilege" line that was just awful. One of those Hollywood apologetic lines; rather than give the brown character more to do, they just "acknowledge white privilege" and then continue to give the white characters the best parts.

Typical all-words-no-action Hollywood liberals.