Interesting but flawed concept now that people have actual experience with the limitations of VR

Rating: Null/10 (22 June 2018)

Interesting but flawed concept now that people have actual experience with the limitations of vr its just a bit harder to take, because real vr is like a mummy simulation, you cant feel, you can't move, and your hands are useless, this isn't really solved in the film either and you have people running down the street with vr goggles on at some point. So there's a certain amount of cringe factor, with luscious visuals, but in the end people fighting over a video game is kind of ridiculous. Plus whats with the jewish lead casting in every Spielberg film, its becoming a bit on the nose. There was a time in the past when this would have played better, before the big bang theory and cosplayification of culture made hypersuperficial "geek" interests mainstream, its gone past cringe at this point
The fundamental problem with this film is that the world building is incomplete, they didn't make the world coherent and so it feels off no matter how much you try to suspend your disbelief. You have characters doing incredible moves in the game world while we are supposed to believe they are just waving their arms around in the real world. The level of immersion we are shown does not match up with the technology of that world. It doesn't matter if your sensory suit can shock you if you can't pick up even a coffee cup and feel its weight in your hand, the disconnect is simply too severe. If they had gone with a matrix style "plugged" straight into the brain type experience then yes, all this could have been made plausible, but vr goggles with a bit of spandex simply doesn't cut it. Even if people aren't fully conscious of these problems, its likely noticed by all, and the disconnect simply prevents any real investment in the story. They thought more about the pop culture tie ins than in building the world itself, rendering the film as superficial as the cultural tie ins placed everywhere, almost at random, without meaning.