An absolute pile of garbage

Rating: 1/10 (24 July 2018)

So let me get this straight, I'm supposed to believe that society has fallen apart and people are all obsessed with gaming. We aren't even given a clear explanation about what went wrong with the world, which should clearly be an important factor to help drive the story. People can apparently play games everyday without a care in the world, and I feel like I would have to be completely ignorant to just accept that and enjoy the movie without questioning this fatal flaw. If you want to watch a story about a world harnessing the power of VR then watch Sword Art Online. At least the anime can identify more realistic issues concerning the overuse of such technology and its effect on the real world.
A sci-fi is supposed to at least attempt to answer such questions, and to paint a world which is believable enough for the story to be built around and so in retrospect it falls very flat. Even the characters are very flat, with no attempt to build any depth into their character or backstory, which leaves you feeling no connection or care of any of them.
Not only does Ready Player One fail to tackle any of these problems, but in itself as a movie it's mediocre at best. As a comedy it's predictable, as a romance it's cringe worthy, and in fact all it has going for it is it's lame overuse of CGI and over the top action scenes. We are living in an age where we have the most incredible resource of technology available to us to make high countless high budget movies, and in that sense we're really lucky. But all we get are is an endless collection of superhero movies and rubbish like this.
I'm disappointed with cinema for creating such garbage, and Steven Spielberg should be ashamed of himself for creating such a thing. People need to stop promoting and advocating such rubbish because it's killing cinema.