Mainstream trash - Hollywood keeps sowing the geek culture for profit

Rating: 3/10 (21 September 2018)

I give this film a 3 because it was supposed to be an easy job (with a book almost as short as a script) and yet they did not deliver. Everything is just dumbed down to the extreme. (Why would IOI trust a corporate grunt to win the contest ? In the book Sorrento is a game designer himself which makes much more sense, why are the main characters teaming up if they did not want to clan up in the first place ?)
The best concepts have been snatched away, the chemistry between Art3mis, Parzival and Haech is gone, the hurdles are no more (Wade makes easy money racing with his Delorean whereas in the book, he can't even leave his school and uses the default Oasis skin) and the nerd references have been replaced with pop ones.