Review of Ready Player One (2018) by Htgamer — 13 Apr 2018
Ready Player One is a giant MMO virtual reality game presented in a movie format. This movie's got the same spirit like ET, The Goonies and other classic kid fantasy movies, but despite Steven Spielberg's direction it's not great. Ready Player One is by far the worst Spielberg film I've ever watched.
Ready Player One's story, plot, dialogue and characters are absolute trash and cheesy AF. It's a chaotic mess of some random teenagers who save the virtual world, mixed with tons of even more random pop culture references that don't make any sense. Garbage films such as "2012" did a far better job in those departments. The final part of the movie can only be described as a big, lame and messy "raid", according to the established MMORPG terms.
Ready Player One's production values are astonishingly high, and the exploration of videogame concepts such as Easter Eggs, Exploits, Glitches, Power-Ups and Extra Life was a nice surprise for me. But ultimately Ready Player One is a bad CGI movie where the physical actors aren't even shown for 90% of the running time. Steven Spielberg may be Hollywood's greatest ever fairy tale cinematographer, but with this one he missed the target.
This review of Ready Player One (2018) was written by Htgamer on 13 Apr 2018.
Ready Player One has generally received positive reviews.
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