A Gamer's Dream

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2019)

A video gamers dream. As a gamer myself this movie is easily one of my new favorites, it shows creativity, the CGI is amazing, and honestly, I just freaking love the concept. I know that for the viewers who aren't avid gamers may not enjoy the movie (they'd be insane) mainly due to its deep dive into gaming culture.
The clique nature of squads, clans, groups, whatever you want to call them. The deep seeded desire to dig for easter eggs and secrets. The fear of your "avatar" dying and losing all of your (XP) or loot. Man, I just felt like every 5 minutes of this movie introduced another wave of gaming culture that I completely thirsted for.
The only real qualm that I have with the film is the timeline of it. The creator of the game grew up playing things like Atari, but does that mean the movie is set in the present day or the very near future? I mean it's set in 2045, but that means that the creator of the world would have grown up playing the games of the early 90's/2000's which would have been the SNES/PS1 era, somewhere in there. However, in the film, they seem to reach into the 80's nostalgia. Maybe he just had really cool parents that wanted to immerse him in the games of olden days? Either way, who cares.
GREAT FILM!