Review of Ready Player One (2018) by Muldjord — 01 Apr 2018

I read the book twice and in my opinion the movie does a pretty good job at portraying the story, with a few minor and a couple major things changed. Nothing that messes with the story though.

The visuals are just as I imagined them when reading the book - so job well done there! It's pretty much spot-on. The IOI makes me think of RoboCop.

It is, obviously, a CGI heavy movie. This both works in its favor, but also against it. Against it because it makes the movie seem a bit synthetic - which it is of course. But it does seem to struggle in finding a way in which it should portray people wearing the goggles versus what they are doing inside the Oasis. For instance, there's several scenes where people wearing VR goggles in the streets are running down the street to mimic that motion in VR. That makes absolutely NO sense. People would be running into walls, and into each other. That was just silly, and they do it several times. But I can see past that.

The story is pretty good, the characters are interesting although some of them should have been fleshed out better.

All in all I was very well entertained, and some of the scenes were downright fantastic! Not gonna mention which, but you'll know when you see it.