Ready Player One Short Movie Review

Ready Player One is director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's near-future sci-fi adventure novel about an avid player (Tye Sheridan) who spends most of his time in the Oasis, a universe of virtual reality. multi-user game.

Expect virtual violence (that is, in the Oasis) and in real life, although the violence of the real world of the film is not as traumatic as that of the book. The action in the game can be quite intense (especially when seen in 3D) and includes excessive shootings (with all kinds of weapons imaginable), total attacks, large-scale battles, destructive car chases, giant monsters and a terrifying recreation of a bloody horror movie that includes ax attacks, zombies and more. Outside the Oasis, there are assassination attempts, an explosion that kills civilians and destroys houses, forced labor, car chases and threats of weapons. The characters also flirt, kiss and touch suggestively, and there is a bit of swearing (mostly "shit", although there is a memorable use of "fuck").

Although the fans of the book, the players and generation X with nostalgia for the 80s are the most obvious audience, it is not necessary that you have read the book to understand or appreciate the story (in fact, if you have not read it, it is less likely to be distracted by the massive changes made in the history of the film) and its themes of teamwork, perseverance and appreciation of real-life connections.

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The film is directed by Steven Spielberg, is a renowned American director, screenwriter and producer responsible for a large number of essential titles of recent film history. The press nicknamed him "King Midas of Hollywood" because of the great number of successes he has co-produced. He has made films of all kinds of genres and themes, although you can highlight in a filmography a classic style at the time of directing and a certain inclination to the family and adventure genre. One of his first works as a filmmaker was "Amblin" (1969), a short film that won an award at the Atlanta Festival. The title of this short baptized its first cinematographic producer "Amblin Entertainment". Thanks to this work he got the attention of the Universal, who offered him a contract to work in his television section, managing to direct Joan Crawford in the series "Night Gallery" (1969). During the late 60s and early 70s, Steven shot basically short films, episodes of series and telefilms, including one starring the popular character "Colombo" (1971). The telefilm Duel (1971), influenced by the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock, was premiered on a big screen in many European countries. The film had excellent critics and still today remains one of his best films and an example of his mastery of suspense. However, his first "official" feature film was The Sugarland Express (1974), a drama starring Goldie Hawn and Ben Johnson that won him an award for best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival. The film with which Spielberg achieved international fame was Jaws (1975), a brilliant adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss that became one of the highest grossing films of the year and that would serve of reference for the big productions in terms of marketing and special effects. Dreyfuss also starred in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), a science fiction film in which the French director François Truffaut appears as an interpreter. In 1941 (1979) Spielberg reconstructed in a comedy key the Japanese attack of "Pearl Harbor". Badly received by critics and public, it supposed a failure and a commercial backwardness after its previous triumphs. Along with George Lucas, Spielberg created one of his most memorable characters, Indiana Jones, the adventurous archaeologist played by Harrison Ford, an actor whom Lucas had elevated to stardom with his character Han Solo in "Star Wars" (1977). Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), influenced by adventurous series B titles from the 50s, brought Spielberg back to the top of the box office, who managed with his next project, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), figures never reached before in the world of entertainment, managing to rise to first place in the list of films with the highest collection in the history of cinema. Two years later he directed the sequel to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) released with the title Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). In his next job, he changed his register to direct a much smaller product with a more intimate and more mature perspective. The film in question was The Color Purple (1984), a film that adapts a novel by Alice Walker and that was nominated in eleven categories to the oscar awards without finally getting any statuette. Nor did he have much commercial fortune with Empire of the Sun (1987), a film set in World War II that was starring a young Christian Bale. After this work he directed the third installment of the saga of Indiana Jones that was released in theaters under the name of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). His last film as a director in the 1980s was Always (1989), an uninspired remake of a title directed by Victor Fleming in 1943, "A Guy Named Joe." At the beginning of the 90 it returns to the sort of adventures with Hook (1991), film carried out by Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams and Julia Roberts that recovered the figure of Peter Pan. With Jurassic Park (1993) it marked another landmark, the film that is based In a science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton he had a great success at the box office and created a millionaire franchise. Another of the highlights in his career was the premiere of Schindler's List (1993), a title shot in black and white in a docudrama tone, where Spielberg reflected the suffering of the Jewish holocaust in the Nazi period. This war drama finally got the Academy of Hollywood awarded him the Oscar for the best director and the best film. After four years without directing, Steven Spielberg returned in 1997 with The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), sequel to the aforementioned "Jurassic Park" (1993). That same year he directed Amistad (1997), a legal drama about slavery set in the middle of the IXX century that starred Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins and Matthew McConaughey. The following year he directed Saving Private Ryan (1998), a war drama set in World War II, specifically during the Normandy landings that was received with praise and won several Oscar nominations. His next work was Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001), a science fiction title that was originally going to be directed by Stanley Kubrick. Narrated in a futuristic fairy-tale format and with philosophical clues, the action revolved around issues related to childhood, especially abandonment and the loss of innocence. Later, with Minority Report (2002) he made a plausible adaptation of a story by Philip K. Dick turned into a science fiction thriller, while in Catch Me If You Can (2002) he offered an entertaining and nostalgic comedy of robberies starring by Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken. In the dramatic comedy The Terminal (2004) he returned to work again with Tom Hanks who played an immigrant locked up in an airport. And again he recovered the science fiction genre directing War of the Worlds (2005), a film that adapted the literary classic of H. G. Wells and narrates a catastrophic alien invasion. That same year he also directed Munich (2005), a film about the terrorist attack at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972. With his next work, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) returned for the fourth time to the archaeological adventure with Harrison Ford as the protagonist. Two years later he released The Adventures of Tintin (2011), an adventure film that adapted the famous Hergé comic character and was produced by Peter Jackson. The film won a golden balloon for the best animated film. That same year he also presented War Horse (2011), a war drama with the leading role of a horse during the First World War that adapted a novel by Michael Morpurgo. The film was a candidate for several oscar awards, but did not get any. The following year he worked with Daniel-Day Lewis in a biographical film about Lincoln (2012). The film won a total of 12 Oscar nominations and won two, one as best actor (for Day-Lewis) and artistic direction. Three years later he premiered with Tom Hanks, one of his favorite actors, the film Bridge of Spies (2015), with a script by Coen brothers and set in the Cold War, the film focuses on the true story of James Donovan, a lawyer from New York to whom the CIA entrusts him the difficult mission of negotiating the release of an American pilot captured by the Soviet Union. The following year he directed The BFG (2016), a film that adapts the children's story of Roald Dahl about a girl who allies herself with the Queen of England and a good-natured giant to prevent an invasion of evil giants.

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SYNOPSIS

| - | Year 2045, the world is on the verge of chaos and collapse. However, people have found salvation in OASIS, a huge universe of virtual reality created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg that he has hidden somewhere in OASIS, unleashing a competition that has hooked the whole world. When the young and unusual hero Wade Watts decides to join the competition, he is immersed in a dizzying treasure hunt, controlled by the real world, in a fantastic universe of mysteries, discoveries and dangers.

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MOVIE INFO Rating: PG-13 Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Directed By: Steven Spielberg Written By: Zak Penn, Ernest Cline In Theaters: March 29, 2018 Runtime: 140 minutes Music: Alan Silvestri Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Cast: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Hannah John-Kamen, Win Morisaki, Simone Kirby, Philip Zhao, Mark Rylance, Julia Nickson, Kae Alexander