A QUINN REVIEW: READY PLAYER ONE

READY PLAYER ONE

(2018)

AGE: 13+

67% SWEET/SOUR

Intro

Based off the best selling novel by Ernest Cline, comes Ready Player One. The story of a teenager named Wade Watts, who lives in Columbus Ohio 2045 where life has stopped trying to face the problems of global warming but tried to live through them. When life got boring and people longed for a better reality. A man named Halliday built an entire virtual universe called the OASIS, where people can do whatever they want, and  whoever they want! Later people discovered a message sent by Halliday himself! It said that he had hidden an easter egg in the OASIS, and the first one to find it will gain half a trillion dollars and complete control over the OASIS. The race was on to find three clues that will lead them to the egg. The OASIS is now a war, will Wade find the clues and get the prize or perish in the OASIS, you will have to find out.

Quality

Not Steven Spielberg’s best, but still was quite entertaining. Ready Player One had enough visual thrills to keep you focused through the two hours and twenty minute runtime. Now video game thrills are not Spielberg’s style, but he did a reasonably good job directing the film. He put together a simple but solidly entertaining story based off of the book. He could bring thrills into the film like he always does, but that does not mean the film was great. The only problem with the directing was that (like I said earlier) it was not Spielberg’s style to make a hip 80's based sci-fi film. Which created a flaw in the directing style, but overall the directing was solid. The story was simple, and not as twisty as I thought it would be, but the plot was entertaining enough to keep me going. Also not much depression in the film. It could have gone more deep with emotion in the character of Wade because his story is sad, but in the movie they did not have enough to make me feel bad. The story could have had more humour too a few funny moments. SO WHAT! Nothing could make me laugh out loud, not even Simon Pegg. Characters were developed enough so that you could understand each one of their personal stories, which was good especially the bad guy who I personally thought was the best character because he was evil enough to suit the role. Overall Ready Player One was a solidly entertaining popcorn flick for 80’s lovers.

How Was the Cast

The cast in Ready Player One was solid. First we have Tye Sheridan as Wade Watts/Parzival. As a not very well known actor he was pretty good in Ready Player One. On the other hand besides being outstandingly cool in the film. He could not be geeky like he should have been in the film making him not the exact type of actor for the role, but he still could play the character well. Next we have Olivia Cooke as Samantha/Art3mis. She was nice for the role, and was able to get into character throughout the movie which made you believe in the character. Third we have Ben Mendelsohn as Sorrento. As a bad guy I thought he did outstandingly well, though he did not scare me he suited the role perfectly, and was a very much developed character. Fourth and finally we have Lena Waithe as Aech/Helen. I thought the actor in this film for Aech was very funny, and suited the character perfectly. It seemed as though Aech was real because of this actors great performance as this character.

Age Logic

I gave this film 13+ mostly because of violence. Swords, Laser guns and more mythical weapons are used to kill. Many scenes of violence destruction etc. They had a made up version of The Shining with frightening and bloody zombies, and an alien bursts out of someone's chest. Wade/Parzival is a brave and caring character who accepts working with others and will not give up on himself or his friends.

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