Just awful

Rating: 1/10 (9 April 2018)

I've been a keen gamer, cineaste and Spielberg fan for over three decades, so you can imagine I was looking forward to this. Jeez, it was horrendous.
I wasn't a great lover of the book finding it fairly shallow and rote but I did kind of enjoy the 80's references (after Cline got over his habit of mansplaining them) and the authors affection for the decade is infectious.
This has been completely stripped out of the film to appeal to a younger audience (Minecraft, Halo, Overwatch, yawn..) in one of the worst scripts ever devised. The experience is akin to watching someone play a s**t videogame for what seems like days. Empty, cynical and so, so dull, Ready Player One is a terrible film and a huge disappointment from Spielberg.