Stunning Visuals

Rating: 8/10 (31 March 2018)

I saw "Ready Player One", starring Tye Sheridan-Cyclops in X-Men:Apocalypse, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse; Olivia Cooke-Bates Motel_tv, Ouija; Mark Rylance-Dunkirk, Bridge of Spies and Ben Mendelsohn-Darkest Hour, The Dark Knight Rises.
This movie is based on a book by Ernest Cline and is directed by Steven Spielberg. It takes place in the not too distant future, around 2045, when most people spend most of their time playing a virtual reality game called Oasis. It was created by Mark and you can do anything or be anyone in the game-it's only limited by your imagination. As you can guess, Mark is rather wealthy and he leaves a video will-knowing he is going to die-saying that he has left 3 keys hidden in the Oasis, and whoever can find all three will win his entire fortune and total control of the Oasis. Tye and Olivia are the top scorers-both are big fans of the 1980's, as was Mark-and their biggest competition is a corporation run by Ben. Ben is the typical corporate greedy type that will do whatever it takes to make money. The visuals are stunning and their are lots of Easter eggs scattered throughout the movie. It's fun just waiting to see who you can spot next, from the Iron Giant to King Kong to ....well, I don't want to spoil any of the ones that are not shown in the trailers. The music is good too, if you like that 1980's period. I remember hearing Rush, Van Halen and the Bee Gees just to name a few. Overall, I really enjoyed it-FYI: For a movie with lots of Easter eggs, I figured there might be an extra scene after the end credits, but alas, there wasn't.
It's rated "PG-13" for sci-fi action, violence, bloody images, language and sexual content-including partial nudity-and has a running time of 2 hours & 20 minutes.
I would buy it on Blu-Ray.