Nerdgasm

Rating: 8/10 (13 April 2018)

Ready player one (2018)
Plot: It takes place in future in Ohio Columbus where the entire society is living in virtual reality called "OASIS" created by genius Halliday and he left 3 keys in the game which will lead to the ultimate Easter egg and ownership of Oasis.
Cons: Even though aspiring visuals fail to register the characters among us, Protagonist Parzival's real world home life is typical orphan with abusive step family we have seen thousand times on screen and it given brief to time grasp, rebellion against corporate and debt workers also similar to fascist government antagonists (duh... star wars) in numerous movies. Another speed breaker for progress of the plot is relationship between Parzivel and Artimis which was predictable and tension of romance wasn't presented between the couple, but later their predictable choices lead to interesting sequences in the third act. Since the opening to exposition of this future world was more of telling rather than showing felt frustrating for the standard of Spielberg. Major disappointment was movie fail to show the reasons why the world choose to live in this virtual world and loose all their money and time on that fiction? Why they had to hide their real identity to express themselves? If these segments of events leading up to the current catharsis of mud we witness. Length of the movie is felt at the end of the movie when it drags for a happily ever after wrap up was unnecessary.
Pros: Steven Spielberg is the master of scene blocking, chase scenes, tracking shots and framing particular setup to move around his character to create illusion of depth and elements of gradual accumulation for an ultimate revealing, after the less enthusiastic BFG and Post Spielberg dashes through his masterful direction. Technical mastery of the visual effects will leave you in an awe and massive hoards of characters from 80s movies/TV shows and music videos moves in and out of frames without creating any distraction to the audience and teasing their inner child with correct amount of nostalgia feel. Gratefully movie does not rely on the nostalgia feel it carries and arguably this is most nerdiest movie ever made and this success is to be thanked by Deadpool, stranger things and IT. In a particular scene we are shown kid who kick boxing and fat lady pole dancing while Parzivel walking to his trailer to play Oasis, this tracking scene left a feeling of need more of this clever cinematography on more scenes, thank fully under the command of Spielberg he was able to pull off balanced popcorn movie and exquisite action/chase blocks.
Conclusion: Visual spectacle of virtual reality OASIS one must be experienced in 3D.
Verdict: A solid B+ (7.5/10)