Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Tron

Rating: 3/10 (18 August 2018)

Basically it's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The eccentric owner of a company sets death trap puzzles and the young protagonist has to solve them to gain control of the company. Remember in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that a rich guy had his employees unwrap chocolate bars to find a golden ticket? Yeah, this one has a rival company use employees to play the video game, except the employees are debtors like in The Diamond Age --assuming that throwaway idea was still in the book after it was retitled; originally read it as an ARC when it was called A Young Lady's Primer or something like that. And that's the exact kind of geekdropping that this movie is chock-full of. So if you liked all the 80s nostalgia stuff in Atomic Blonde and you either don't make a lot of CGI or plan to watch it while doing housework (which is what I did, I watched it via you know who that starts with an n and ends with a flix) then you'll probably like it.