Review of Ready Player One (2018) by Theflashgamer — 29 Mar 2018

Ready Player One is a masterpiece when it comes to the visual department, and while this may be the strongest part of the movie the story isn't too distasteful. I feel the movie does a fine job at telling just whats going on and showing it in a beautiful fashion. And there lies my one gripe with the movie.

Ready Player One has a very bad tendency of telling instead of showing. This is most notable in the opening minutes of the show where plenty of time is spent narrating and explaining the plot. I feel this hurts the movie as the visuals tell a lot and do so in a much cleaner way. For example the way they explain how his family dynamic works flows very well and with just a couple of character actions you can easily see what everyone's feelings towards each other are. Overall I feel if more scenes were conveyed like this the movie could easily be a 9.

Putting that aside however I found the movie very refreshing. For a movie all about the virtual world it felt very nice how it was handled. And without going into spoilers I have to say the ending while semi hand fisted legitimately gave me chills from how it was handles. Overall there's a lot of things I could praise the movie on but nothing would put into words how well I believe the imagery in it works to drill into the viewer's heart.