Good visuals but plain story

Rating: 5/10 (7 June 2018)

This film is about a boy who lives in a really futuristic and technologic reality where everyone plays a video game where they can have a new life. However, everything turns different when the creator of the game dies and a new mission in the game starts to be crowned the inheritor of the empire.
For me this film is really normal, nothing too much different from the other films. The story is the same: a boy who is a normal player but he gets to know the clue of the game and succeeds both in the game and in love. I would have liked to see something new from the typical love story although the film is interesting and great for having some fun with friends, but I would not pay for watching it at the cinema.
The animation is really good actually and in some scenes, they mixed real filmed images with animated ones and it was interesting. However, at some points the film lacked of story, just explosions and action without any relevant images, but I guess this is a film for entertaining and they did not wanted to create a piece of art. Also the characters were a little bit stereotypical as there were the main boy, the girl (who represents all the women in the world), an asian guy who knows martial arts, a chinese kid who is very smart, and a black girl who seems to represent the LGBT community. Just a normal movie with no clear motivations and normal characters.