4/3/2018 0 Comments Ready Player One FIlm ReviewReady Player One takes place in a dystopian futuristic version of Columbus, Ohio. Set in the year 2045 the film has a lot of futuristic and interesting technology to offer. The main plot centers around our protagonist Wade Watts and his journey to find the 3 keys inside of a virtual video game called the oasis. Those 3 keys were left behind by the founder of the oasis James Halliday, and lead to the rights to control the oasis.
This film does in fact capture that classic Spielberg magic, however it doesn't have the quality that past Spielberg films have. I don't even think this as good as The Post. I had more fun watching this, but its not as good as that film (and i didn't think the post was all that great). A multitude of reasons cause this, starting off with the plot. The plot's potential is so squandered and nothing really happens. This is a cookie cutter film, no interesting things happen. They didn't even try to do anything even slightly interesting with the story. It genuinely feels like a Disney film in that aspect, come to think of it, pretty much everything in this feels Disney. There is one reference that made me smile for a solid 5 minutes, but I consider that a spoiler. So I'll just say it involves a classic movie. All of the other references don't feel forced, but they feel really unnecessary. The references sort of felt like they were there just to distract everyone from the plot and everything else being so insanely average and a lot of stuff being straight out bad. Speaking of bad things about this film, lets talk about the characterization and dialogue in this film. The dialogue is genuine garbage. There is not a single line in this film that doesn't feel forced and poorly written. This isn't just the writing's fault, the acting is pretty awful as well and pretty much everyone is guilty of delivering their lines badly. Ben Mendelsohn is a genuinely great actor who's potential is squandered. Everyone is already praising the VFX and i have to say I somewhat agree with that. They aren't revolutionary by any means but they're very well done. It is a bit jarring between the borderline lifelike backdrops and the characters being obviously CGI. It's good CGI but it's still obivous. They take footage from a classic film and legitimately just overlay CGI characters. While it's entertaining, the VFX get pretty awful. It's genuine a weird film cinematography wise. Steven Spielberg is a great director, but for some reason this film only looks visual interesting in the oasis. Everything outside is simply competently shot. Overall I would recommend this film. There's a lot of fun to be had but it's really not that great. This film feels like Stranger Things (though not near as good) in the aspect that it feels like a family movie. I don't see a person of any age watching this film and not at least being entertained. I'm going to give this film a 5.5/10 (slightly above average).
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