Watchable, nothing more.

Rating: 4/10 (31 July 2019)

Ready Player One has a grand premise, but fails to connect and the characters aren't memorable.
It's a wild ride, but it's a popcorn flick without reflection. There isn't much from my childhood in terms of nostalgia, which is what I thought would be the case when it first came out and my reason for not watching it then. The music's stuff you've heard a million times and isn't good. The avatar's more engaging than the humans and part of the reason the film gets worse as it goes on. Mendelsohn's character Sorrento's completely cartoonish.