Pretty Plain Movie that could've been better

Rating: 4/10 (14 August 2018)

I was pretty Excited for this Movie the first Trailer had me Pumped but the main selling point of this Movie are the POP CULTURE REFERENCES that are not Subtle one bit an this Movie Rely's on this very Heavily its pretty much all the movie has to Offer cause besides the Endless References this is a Very Plain Movie with Mediocre Acting, a Predictable Story, and Action that was Passable it has so Much going on, it starts to be a Little Boring. Like i said before the References are the Selling Point of the movies which is so Bloated with References that it stops being Fun, cause most of them feel Pointless except to get the Audience to see something they recognize, all it made me wanna do was go watch the Movie there referencing which doesn't really help the Movie if all its doing is making me think of other Movies when you want them to be invested in the one there currently watching, but yeah the References are way too much not even Subtle about it like so many other Movies that handle there References with Care, while Movie just throws as many in to see what works, now Besides the References there isn't much to talk about the Character's were extremely Weak and the most basic run of the mill types of character's where they try to give them Development but it falls flat, you got Normal Teen Lead played by Tye Sheridan who I Love in other Movies but here he's given nothing to work with, along side him is a Normal Teen Love Interest played by Olivia Cook who is another Actress who is not given the right material that could make her character so much more interesting and all the side character's are stale. Besides Mark Rylance who plays the only interesting character you understand why he created this World to Escape from Reality, the Story is the normal Young-Adult Book to Movie Teens go against evil Government lead by Evil people who love to wear White, it brings nothing new to a Genre that is Dead besides adding a bunch of References which we already discussed so the one thing this movie does different than all the other ones it does wrong, I can't say I recommend seeing it in theater's unless you just want a Plethora of Pop Culture References being shoved down your throat along side the most Generic Story I'm pretty sure you've seen before an done better Overall 4/10 Pretty Bland an Forgettable a few entertaining Moments and 1 Good Performance but don't really make up for the Problems sadly, not an unwatchable Movie but i have no urge to revisit it.