Ready Player One

Rating: 8/10 (29 March 2018)

The movie is entertaining cinema, it has visual virtue, if you see the movie in the movie theaters, you must see it in 3D and in the biggest screen possible. All the visual splendor of the movie, it has a big budget of 155 to 170 million dollar, the money is well spent and if you really want to relish the visual grandeur of the movie, see it in 3D, you will be pleased with what you see popping in your glasses and eyes. Now with the visual effects that are great, have been discussed, now let´s discuss the movie, itself. Steven Spielberg still and always have been a great storyteller, he has always have a good for story, Spielberg is one of those directors that always tell a story, Spielberg had always been the best storyteller in the screen. And what a story does Spielberg gives, always Steven always give a story with great heart and Ready Player One has a huge beating heart. The story is about a young man, a coming of age story of Wade Watts, Sheridan first seen in Mud with Matthew MacConaughey, Sheridan is grown now and he shows off empathy and a great inspiring performance about always fighting and never giving up. The movie is a pugilism between the corporate machinery of IOI, the Innovative Online Industries, manned by a corrupt and ruthless Nolan Sorrento played by a good actor in Ben Mendelsohn who had been gaining better and better roles more apt to his great talents, he had appeared in the Dark Knight Rises, where he shows his gravitas, then another great role that is one of his best roles in Rogue One as Director Krennic, Spielberg always having a great eye for talent, gives Mendelsohn a great role in this villain Nolan Sorrento. Against the corporate suit, the High Five, a group led by Sheridan, or in the film Wade Watts, with her paramour and love interest in Samantha, a young woman Art3mis in the virtual game reality named Oasis. The catalyst of the movie is the life of Holliday, the creator of the game that had beguiled the living and waking hours of most people of the world. Holliday began planning his great game in 2025 and in 2027 the game was in effect, and our hero in the movie, Sheridan, Wade Watts was born the same year. The story takes place in 2045 when five years after the death of Holliday, and for five long years there had been no progress in the discovery of the Easter eggs clues that would signal the talented searchers towards three keys that would opened up the way to gain and acquire the half a trillion Oasis virtual reality game. Sheridan, Wade Watts is able to find the first Easter egg with a comeback of Back to The Future clue, and then when Wade Watts moves the needle and the game, Nolan Sorrento has a malicious intent. Nolan Sorrento does not have any morality, he is a murderer and does not have any conscience, he would kill anyone that in the way of his dream of acquiring the Oasis for the IOI and gain even higher amount of stock so that his great company and corporation would have endless growth. A young woman feels the pain in Samantha, that befriends Wade Watts in Oasis, but Wade Watts quickly fell in love with Samantha´s avatar, Art3mis who feels that Wade does not live in reality and that Oasis is a game, not the real life. Nolan Sorrento manages to find the information and whereabouts of Wade Watts and sends the kill order when Wade Watts does not accept the financial offer that is very compelling to Wade Watts as he lives in deep poverty, but after hearing the sad story of Samantha´s father that had been used by IOI and had dies by over work. Wade Watts declines and then Nolan sends his drones to try to silence Wade forever, he fails to do so, but a loved one from Wade Watts is a casualty. Samantha helps Wade Watts to find a place where he can help her and the two of them, now finally in real life continue what they have began in Oasis and Wade Watts is pleased with his infatuation, this a requited love as both have chemistry and their every move in the screen made sparks fly between the two, good chemistry. The two young individuals who began to fell in love in Oasis, finally completely fell for each other in the real world. They managed to find the second Easter egg clue and Kubrick´s the Shining is given several minutes of screen time in the second key that reveals the third clue, about a game. Samantha´s safe haven is found and she is taken saving Wade Watts and the High Five is found in real life as the other friends of Oasis of Wade Watts helped him and they begin their journey to find the third clue and help released and saved Samantha. Wade Watts managed to fool and outplay Nolan Sorrento with the help of H, a great hacker and huge Oasis ally of Wade Watts, whose avatar is Perceval, a character that looks a lot like a character of the game Final Fantasy from 2009, Link. Wade Watts with H manages to release Samantha and she wants to help and from the inside of IOI, she helps Wade Watts and the other members of the High Five. The denouement of the film transpires when Nolan Sorrento tries one last try when he is unable to win the game, he wants for everyone to lose, if he cannot win, the others cannot win, all would lose. Wade Watts had been given an extra life, by a butler who oversees all of Holliday´s memories. Wade Watts manages to get the last Easter egg and the last crystal key and Ben Mendelsohn´s Nolan tries everything in his power to stop Wade Watts from getting the golden egg which is given to Wade Watts by Holliday himself, it is implied that Holliday has somehow outlive his own death, as his conscience may have continued to live in Oasis. After one last scare from Nolan Sorrento who has a gun and may have used it to Samantha´s horror and despair to see her lover in mortal danger if he had come before Wade Watts receiving the golden egg. The Oasis and Gaming lawyers come to give the papers to Wade Watts with an old friend from Holliday, Og, the man who helped Holliday initiate the game in the first place and who had given the extra life to Wade Watts. There is a happy ending when Wade Watts in the name of the High Five who all helped in winning the golden egg, gives all five elite players the same rights to the Oasis and Gaming ownership. Wade Watts and Samantha continue to make one of the greatest fears of Holliday, to kiss a woman, Wade Watts many times shows and says himself that he is not Holliday and kisses Samantha and they live idyllically. Yes, the movie is long, almost 2 hours and a half, but it is an entertaining and good movie that does not bore and always keep you glued to the screen in all the climatic battles in Oasis and in the real life, and the real world and yes like Duran Duran, which is hugely referenced in the movie, sings in their song Ordinary World, the real world, they learned to survive.