Way too many cliches and product placement crammed in 2 hours

Rating: Null/10 (16 August 2019)

I know this was made for 12 year olds but come on, throw in something original. Every character is a caricature - oh the guy who made the game is the most awkward weirdo ever because programmers, am I right? Oh here's the cute "badass, tough" girl who's constantly rude to the main guy because that's hilarious and totally original, right? Yeah top gamers are totally females. Main guy is of course a clueless thirsty goofy kid because that's super original, right? No, it's a movie full of tired old cliches rehashed yet again, with nothing original to shine. If you've seen older movies like Gamer you probably don't even need to see this. It's been done countless times, it just now has a huge budget behind it and the most stereotypical, overdone characters and setting ever. It's all been done so many times.
Of course the main "badass tomboy" female character turns out to have a little Matrix crew operation and the main bad guy has a generic right-hand female always dressed in black with a black bangs haircut. In the second half you have a little ridiculously perfectly multicultured band of kids solving Scooby Doo mysteries. Atari is of course the console that represents the "OG gaming times" because it's the only company that's dead and it's name is dirt cheap to license. Seriously I'm not making that up, you've seen all this in every movie ever. Everything is so cliche it's like it's satire.
Forgot to add: the racing scene was stolen from Split Second, the programmer's in-game avatar is a stolen Graybeard from Skyrim... yet those games didn't get a dime or a reference unlike the countless other games popular with the pre-teens.
Unless you're under 13 and you think Twitch has a future and Fortnite is a good game (both part of the product placement of course), you won't like this. It's long and bad, nothing special at all.