Unauthentic

Rating: 5/10 (17 April 2018)

Ready Player One offers some good scenes, like the race to the first key or the Shining sequence, but the weakness of the plot and the prodigiously uninventive directing rapidly leads to boredom. We end up wondering if Steven Spielberg really is behind the camera or if he just got offered a fat check so the Nolan Sorrentos who plotted this movie could put this incredible icing on the Welovetheeighties cake they are trying to shove down our throats. I love the eighties. I grew up in them. But we are supposed to believe that the children of our children will develop a fascination bordering on fetishism for an era as remote from them as the 1940s are for us? I don't buy it. This is not a sincere film. "A fanboy knows a hater" as Wade would say. I don't know if the brains behind it are haters but they are clearly no fanboys.