Thursday, May 21, 2020

Ready Player One (2018)

In a crowded future, the world lives its fantasies in a game that offers a rich virtual reality and where its creator hid a popular competition.

An adventure film that summarizes the popular culture of the '80s with the pretext of the extremely popular personality of the creator of the game from the film and the common cause of looking for clues in everything that his person represented. Interesting in terms of cultural content but weak in terms of a supporting construction for it. The film tries to inspire admiration for attention to detail and the need for cultural research but closes its eyes to the fact that the only reason for the value of these elements comes from heir significance to someone who practically is a pop idol. Visually, it is not more impressive than any of the games of recent years, nor revolutionary since it does not even try to imitate the true or possible reality. To be watched only as a response to the need for visual adventures but nothing more. The fragment inspired by The Shining still has some merit though.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg 
With: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe,  T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Hannah John-Kamen

Rating: 6/10

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