What a complete disappointment

Rating: 2/10 (6 April 2018)

"Ready Player One", the book, was beautiful and heartbreaking and had an outstanding plot and story filled with elaborate plans and hours of research paying off in the form of success. "Ready Player One", the movie, is the complete opposite. Not only is the entire plot almost entirely different, the visuals and acting weren't even that good to make up for it. NONE of the quests are the same, NONE of the characters are portrayed correctly and I'm just so disappointed that Ernest Cline's work was interpreted so poorly. I know that fitting a story so rich in details into such a small amount of time can be difficult but they could've kept at least SOME of the actual story in it! It's like the writers saw the cover of the book, flipped through the first couple of pages and then said "yeah ok I get the gist of it". And what a corny and played out ending, "Everyone's happy! The bad guy gets shoved into a cop car! Everyone is alive and well and our two leads make out on a couch!". The end wasn't supposed to be happy but more a bittersweet victory. In the book, Daito dies. It could've been so good and I'm truly disappointed that this was the end result. (Side note: his name is Shoto, not "Sho").