The most important game of his life

Rating: 6/10 (20 January 2019)

I have to marvel at the computer graphics that Steven Spielberg used in creating
Ready Player One. Sad to say I am not of the gaming generation, the fascination
of playing these games hours on end is totally lost to me. My ignorance of these
matters makes it hard to follow the plot in something like this. For instance the
Matrix series. I've watched those films and I haven't reviewed them because I'm
not sure of what I watched. This was a bit better.
In 2045 the world is really a rotten place and folks like young Tye Sheridan have retreated into their own cyber world called The Oasis. It's where with
avatars they can play their own games and win and lose in a much more interesting place than the Columbus, Ohio of the near future.
Sheridan is now playing in the most important game of his life. At stake is
the ownership/patent of the Oasis created by eccentric Bill Gates type billionaire Mark Rylance. It's like Willy Wonka willing his Chocolate Factory to
a lucky kid. But this is much bigger stakes.
This film is more than half in animation when Sheridan meets some of his
cyber friends once again as they all compete looking for prizes in the cyber
world called Easter Eggs. Get three and he's a winner.
Sheridan does meet his friends again in the cyber world and in the real one.
He also has to fight in both.
What the attraction is I don't know. But I'm happy that at the end, the world
gets a shot of needed reality.