Ready Player One is a spectacular light entertainment, made with skill and integrity. Every space on the screen is filled with sensational visuals and powerful special effects. The film is an ambitious project of veteran director Steven Spielberg , who took the idea of potential virtual reality and transformed it into a sensational blockbuster built with CGI magic and crammed with pop culture references. And here Spielberg does not hold back at all.
Spielberg is the expert in these kinds of things. The filmmaker has donated some works that became a technical pioneer in blockbuster movies, ranging from Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jurassic Park , to The Adventures of Tintin . Ready Player One is not a pioneer in any way, but this movie is a top achievement in the art of special effects. The source material is a novel entitled the same work of Ernest Cline , which I do not read, but it is a heavenly pleasure for the nerds. If so, then the novel is getting the equivalent of a movie adaptation.
There are a lot of pop culture references and the appearance of the iconic character from childhood that we will meet almost in every frame-some of which were created by Spielberg himself through his movie. It will diminish its excitement if I reveal it, but I can say that its property is not limited to Warner Bros. (which produces this film) but also cross-country and * cross country. Some of them will make you fall. Eh, how come like clickbait article title?
Sounds like a nasty formula to scoop up the dollar at the box office. However, my worries faded as the story began. Spielberg wants to make more movies than that. The basic plot and character are used as placemats to place references that will be analyzed by the reference experts later, but the film also has a good story involving . Spielberg did not let the reference game divert the narration. Reportedly the reference in the movie is not as much in the novel. Spielberg, with the help of scriptwriter Zak Penn , just picked an important part of the story. This makes the audience who do not get the same reference can still enjoy it, although it would be more broken for the audience who get .
The setting is in 2045, when the world becomes more chaotic than it is now. Poverty and overpopulation make the majority of residents have to live in containers arranged in stilts like towers. So it's better to spend time in OASIS, a virtual reality universe that might be called an interactive game but so fitting as an escape from reality because there we can be anything and do anything. This is where the fantasy comes true; monster, robot, giant, we can even become Batman. To get into OASIS, we only need to wear special glasses.
The creators are James Halliday ( Mark Rylance ), Steve Jobs of OASIS. Before he died, Halliday held a 3 level game for all OASIS users. Anyone who can complete all levels, is entitled to inherit all Halliday's assets and, most importantly, full control over OASIS. True, the outline of the plot is similar to the narrative style of video games. So began a hard game involving all OASIS players.
At the heart of the story, the film is still a typical Spielberg family movie, where a child of innocence with great potential must struggle against the cynicism of the adult world. In Ready Player One , the boy is Wade Watts ( Tye Sheridan ), an awkward teenager who lives in one of the slums in Columbus, Ohio. When wearing special glasses, he becomes Parzival, one of the great avatars in OASIS. His friend is Aech, a stocky, half robot technician. Later, they will get acquainted with Art3mis ( Olivia Cooke ) is sexy and also not less good.
The tyrants Wade must fight are Nolan Sorrento ( Ben Mendehlson ), a former Halliday kid who plans to take over OASIS. He came up with a company that seemed to be specially designed to seize OASIS. Every day, Nolan sent dozens of professional players into OASIS to conquer the game. In OASIS, he gets help from a cunning avatar named i-R0k ( TJ Miller ), while in the real world his hoofs are the tough girl F'Nale ( Hannah John-Karmen ).
However, Nolan lags one step in one thing. The majority of the "gunters" (egg hunters) are a bit more superior, because the instructions for each mission are stored in a movie, comic, or game Halliday has ever devoured. Including personal life that is not so neglected by many people. Well, the latter became an ingredient for Spielberg to give a bit of sentimentalism. But this is not a heavy film. The moral message about the importance of the real world above the virtual world is only a point to close the film with a more positive tone.
The true nature of this movie is a vessel for Spielberg to unleash his most nerd side. The action scene is crowded. His energy makes the momentum of the film speeding. The opening action scene is a sequence of races that easily beat the coolest races in any movie. Various types of vehicles, ranging from trucks, batmobile, to Kaneda motorcycles from the Akira film, sped up its pace amid chaos over the Manhattan bridge involving T-Rex to King Kong. This visual parade does not make our senses overdose, because there is a sensation that makes us believe that Spielberg controls the chaos. There is also a relatively quiet sequence, wherein they re-scene from one of Stanley Kubrick's films. Please find your own.
Spielberg filled this film with plenty of characters and enough sequences to capitalize on many standard action films. Ready Player One is a movie that perhaps only can be made by sineas who have eaten a lot of salt acid world blockbuster. It's hard to imagine the movie can be as exciting and exciting as this if directed by a director other than Spielberg. You need to watch it on the big screen in order to feel the effects of the sakaw it causes. A special effect runs its hqq task in cinema, which is to move the narration. Spielberg also dynamically plays the focus between OASIS and the real world. Several times we are invited to follow the conflict in the real world, and the portion of the story in the real world helped stakes in the escalated virtual world. Vice versa.
Now Spielberg is already 71 years old, which is not presumptuous for us to call it elderly. However, seen from the energy, this film was made by a director who was 20 years old. Spielberg can be likened to the coolest opa of all time trying to impress her grandchildren. And he succeeded spectacularly. This is the most pure Spielberg movie after years. And yap, the ultimate movie for the nerds. I'm sure Spielberg had a great time. We also have fun. This is why we go to the movies.