Enjoyable - even if you're not a teenage gamer.

Rating: 8/10 (30 April 2018)

Surprisingly engaging movie. An interesting concept, set a little way into the future. Lots of pop culture references which gamers would identify immediately, even if their parents won't. This is an action adventure movie where the main character has to enter a game as an avatar and complete each level in order to win the game and save the world. Battling other players and an evil corporation along the way. It does offer some interesting observations about the way the world is heading (people living in 'stacks' of containers due to land shortages and overcrowding.) And virtual reality being used as a distraction for the masses to forget the misery of their own reality. So there are some potentially deep themes there. Not as depressingly dark as the themes in the Netflix series Black Mirror. Some similar themes, but delivered more gently than Black Mirror and still worth thinking about.