Film Review: Ready Player One
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cert: 12A
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: (screenplay by) Zak Penn, Ernest Cline, (based on the novel by) Ernest Cline
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Susan Lynch, Clare Higgins, Laurence Spellman, Perdita Weeks, many more...
Running time: 2h 20min
Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: Woman naked only see the back.
Violence & Gore: There are several slightly prolonged sequences of action and violence. Violence takes place on a virtual battlefield. Real injuries are not sustained; their avatars disintegrate instead. Blood in one scene.
Profanity: There are occasional utterances of the expletive "f***", along with other swear words like "shit" and "damn".
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: None
Frightening/Intense Scenes: There is one scene imitating the old horror movie which may be frightening for some younger views so beware of this as this scene show some pretty frighten things from horror films.
Story: In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spends their days. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone-the only limits are your own imagination. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the Oasis to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir. When Wade conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends-aka the High Five-are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS.
Likes: Wow Steven Spielberg once again shows that he hasn't lost his touch in making an epic masterpiece and visual effect movie that has so much nostalgia, spanning three decades of pop-culture that anyone that loves gaming and films will recognise.
I read that Steven Spielberg and his wife read the book, which prompted him to make this film and what Ive heard is the book itself is very fast paced and basically tell you everything, but it one of those cases that the film is actually better than the book.
Rather than having the same old story where character give everything away by explaining everything or having to explain everything to the audience, were given a 2 hours an 20mins epic ride of visual effects and nostalgia from gaming, anime and movie character that has spanned across from the 80's to today's industry that the audience will sit in ore of just how awesome this film truly is.
You might be thinking ya it just a film about nostalgia with a weak plot, but you would be wrong their, what Steven Spielberg has done with this story is add something between the line of the film's story itself. It's one of the biggest middle fingers to the companies that have become corrupt not just in the gaming industry but the movie industry as well.
You may be thinking how is this possible? well, it's a sutal hint with the main villain of the film played by (Star wars: rogue one villain Ben Mendelsohn who plays Sorrento who in the virtual world look like an old school evil superman character.
What I mean is his character is a perfect representation of companies like Konami, Activision and EA, which if you're a gamer like me you understand what I mean by that, the film as a whole is a perfect representation of the state of the gaming and movie industry has become today in our world with microtransaction and corporate greed.
I love how Spielberg has secretly put this in the film very clever as it works for the story as well and doesn't compromise it any way, special the acting with Tye Sheridan playing the main role of the film with an outstanding performance along with co-star Olivia Cooke as well as the rest of cast as well this film is just outstanding.
From what I saw there are at least 100 or more characters spanning across so many games like battle toads, halo, Comand and conquer so many more as well as movie characters like Chucky which was hilarious to the iron giant to anime and Comic book characters from DC. Seriously this film is like a porn film for nerds and geeks alike with all this nostalgia and the epic battle scene which won't disappoint this truly is a film not to be missed.
The Music choices as well just add the films perfect direction and the sutal message's this by far is one of the best films of 2018 and a must to watch. This will most definitely be the most paused film on home video with look for certain characters.
Dislikes: The film could've been slightly slowed down in place to see the certain character that all that really wrong with the film
Overall: Epic hype is real, one of the best nostalgia films to date, Spielberg masterpiece.
Rating: 5 out of 5 for Entertainment / 9.8 out of 10 for nostalgia and the secret message.
Cert: 12A
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: (screenplay by) Zak Penn, Ernest Cline, (based on the novel by) Ernest Cline
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Susan Lynch, Clare Higgins, Laurence Spellman, Perdita Weeks, many more...
Running time: 2h 20min
Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: Woman naked only see the back.
Violence & Gore: There are several slightly prolonged sequences of action and violence. Violence takes place on a virtual battlefield. Real injuries are not sustained; their avatars disintegrate instead. Blood in one scene.
Profanity: There are occasional utterances of the expletive "f***", along with other swear words like "shit" and "damn".
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: None
Frightening/Intense Scenes: There is one scene imitating the old horror movie which may be frightening for some younger views so beware of this as this scene show some pretty frighten things from horror films.
Story: In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spends their days. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone-the only limits are your own imagination. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the Oasis to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir. When Wade conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends-aka the High Five-are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS.
Likes: Wow Steven Spielberg once again shows that he hasn't lost his touch in making an epic masterpiece and visual effect movie that has so much nostalgia, spanning three decades of pop-culture that anyone that loves gaming and films will recognise.
I read that Steven Spielberg and his wife read the book, which prompted him to make this film and what Ive heard is the book itself is very fast paced and basically tell you everything, but it one of those cases that the film is actually better than the book.
Rather than having the same old story where character give everything away by explaining everything or having to explain everything to the audience, were given a 2 hours an 20mins epic ride of visual effects and nostalgia from gaming, anime and movie character that has spanned across from the 80's to today's industry that the audience will sit in ore of just how awesome this film truly is.
You might be thinking ya it just a film about nostalgia with a weak plot, but you would be wrong their, what Steven Spielberg has done with this story is add something between the line of the film's story itself. It's one of the biggest middle fingers to the companies that have become corrupt not just in the gaming industry but the movie industry as well.
You may be thinking how is this possible? well, it's a sutal hint with the main villain of the film played by (Star wars: rogue one villain Ben Mendelsohn who plays Sorrento who in the virtual world look like an old school evil superman character.
What I mean is his character is a perfect representation of companies like Konami, Activision and EA, which if you're a gamer like me you understand what I mean by that, the film as a whole is a perfect representation of the state of the gaming and movie industry has become today in our world with microtransaction and corporate greed.
I love how Spielberg has secretly put this in the film very clever as it works for the story as well and doesn't compromise it any way, special the acting with Tye Sheridan playing the main role of the film with an outstanding performance along with co-star Olivia Cooke as well as the rest of cast as well this film is just outstanding.
From what I saw there are at least 100 or more characters spanning across so many games like battle toads, halo, Comand and conquer so many more as well as movie characters like Chucky which was hilarious to the iron giant to anime and Comic book characters from DC. Seriously this film is like a porn film for nerds and geeks alike with all this nostalgia and the epic battle scene which won't disappoint this truly is a film not to be missed.
The Music choices as well just add the films perfect direction and the sutal message's this by far is one of the best films of 2018 and a must to watch. This will most definitely be the most paused film on home video with look for certain characters.
Dislikes: The film could've been slightly slowed down in place to see the certain character that all that really wrong with the film
Overall: Epic hype is real, one of the best nostalgia films to date, Spielberg masterpiece.
Rating: 5 out of 5 for Entertainment / 9.8 out of 10 for nostalgia and the secret message.
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