Never read the book. Hated the movie anyway.

Rating: 5/10 (7 April 2018)

You can summarise this movie as having a boring, nonsensical plot, which only serves to offer up the occasional nostalgia gimmick.
So much about this movie did not make sense. PLENTY of plot holes, technology that doesn't make sense, and motives that go totally unexplained.
It's weakest point is trying to blend in the virtual world with reality; the integration of this singular technology into society is totally unconvincing.
As if large groups of people would stop on the side walk to put their VR headsets on and start flailing their limbs around?
Why would people wear a suit that allows them to feel significant pain in the real world?
Why in five years did nobody try exploring the race track backwards?
Why was that chick playing victim so hard over an insignificant birth mark?
How the heck does a group of people not get tangled hanging from ropes inside a moving van?
Very disappointing.