Such a stray from a truly amazing book.

Rating: 3/10 (20 June 2018)

I felt like the movie changed so much from the book, that if you are a fan of the book, you will plainly see how lazy and generalized this adaptation is.
The book is truly phenomenal, if you like (and know) the call backs to 1980s pop culture and gaming. Do yourself a favor and just read the book.
While I understand fighting a pixelated Joust or quoting Monty Python for an hour and a half wouldn't translated well on screen...Steven Spielberg changed so much that it transformed the narrative from in-depth character formation, vital life lessons, and pulled so many significant events that it takes away from the original plot. It felt as though this was just another punch-out film from a once great director. The movie is curated to such a wide audience that it loses everything that made the book so great.
However, I did enjoy I-rok's new and continuing role throughout the film. The only save the movie had for a book fan.