Ready Player One

Name: Ready Player One
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Animation
Released: March 29, 2018
Duration: 140 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Hannah John-Kamen, Joel MacCormack, Julia Nickson, Kae Alexander

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: March 29, 2018 | PG-13

Starring: Ben Mendelsohn, Hannah John-Kamen, Joel MacCormack, Julia Nickson, Kae Alexander, Kathryn Wilder, Lena Waithe, Letitia Wright, Mark Rylance, Mckenna Grace, Olivia Cooke, Philip Zhao, Ralph Ineson, Simon Pegg, Susan Lynch, T.J. Miller, Tye Sheridan, Vin Diesel, Win Morisaki

Summary: In 2045, the world is on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhereIn 2045, the world is on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.
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Director: Steven Spielberg

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Animation

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 140 min

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Richard Roeper

Mar 26, 2018

You need to see this one on the biggest screen possible, and let it wash over you as if you had stepped inside the most incredible video game experience ever created — one in which events in the manufactured universe can have lasting and serious real-world consequences. Read full review

Will Leitch

Mar 29, 2018

I don’t know how he does it, or for that matter why, but Spielberg turns Ready Player One into something that’s both nostalgic and new, something impersonal yet uniquely his. It is not one of his better movies; it’s probably not even in the top half. It’s way too long and packed with too much extra junk. It is still, somehow, a gas. Read full review

Peter Travers

Mar 28, 2018

Spielberg's visual inventiveness is unflagging. Read full review

Gary Thompson

Mar 28, 2018

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is competent, occasionally rousing entertainment that nonetheless left me a little bummed. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Mar 29, 2018

It misses the point to ask, as some have recently, whether he’s still able to have fun at the age and status he has attained. Sure he is. He must have had great fun making this immense Tinker Toy of a movie, but there’s a fundamental mismatch between artist and material. Read full review

Matt Donato

Mar 14, 2018

Ready Player One isn’t slick enough a commentary worth getting riled up about or distracting enough to hide glaring structural issues underneath a barrage of “HEY I KNOW THEM!” cameos like dangling keys in front of a dog. Read full review

Britt Hayes

Mar 12, 2018

With Steven Spielberg behind the camera, Ernest Cline’s book had potential to transcend its source material. It’s disheartening that the finished product is little more than the cinematic equivalent of a pop culture mashup tee, which takes cherished icons of film and coats them in garish CGI while clumsily smashing them against one another like a child playing with action figures. Read full review

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McGamor

Mar 29, 2018

This movie does a great job of capturing the feelings and emotions as well as the aspirations of any VR gamer. The nostalgia also speaks to my age group as we enter the VR era. The only people who would not like this movie are non-gamers or self-absorbed trolls just being rude for the sake of it.

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Esteban20

Jun 14, 2022

Does Ready Player One in 4K Dolby Vision HDR and the immersive Dolby Atmos sound both on 4K UHD Blu-ray and the Apple TV app? OH, YEAH! Ha, ha, ha! This is amazing!!

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ChunkDump

Dec 22, 2020

Spielberg out did his inner nerd self come to life. technology is super advanced in this **** up earth. gaming fantasies runs wild in this gaming epic.

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mrq

Apr 2, 2018

Loved this movie. It captured the essence of the video game RPG world. Anybody who has played those know that sometimes you play the game, not for the story, but for the gameplay. Treat this like a game cut scene and your expectations will be more on par with the audience this movie wasLoved this movie. It captured the essence of the video game RPG world. Anybody who has played those know that sometimes you play the game, not for the story, but for the gameplay. Treat this like a game cut scene and your expectations will be more on par with the audience this movie was meant to reach.

It is a thrill ride through the pop culture and cameos of our favorite characters and icons over the past 30 years. It is a tribute to the online gaming community which is as chaotic as it is creative, as boorish as it is flamboyant, and as resourceful as it is crazy. Love it for what is. It is for us who stare into screens all night earning the next level of gear, who bashed the controller over every death, who screamed obscenities through the mic at the losers in king of the hill, who laughed our asses off over Leroy Jenkins.

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ViniciusBrito

Jun 29, 2018

When the real world is living problems with food, and without people trying to make the world better and just ignoring everything, someone creates the Oasis, a virtual reality that have a whole giant world with a lot of references of pop culture during the history. The creator of the gameWhen the real world is living problems with food, and without people trying to make the world better and just ignoring everything, someone creates the Oasis, a virtual reality that have a whole giant world with a lot of references of pop culture during the history. The creator of the game make a easter egg, that the one who solve it will get not just a lot of money, but also the owning of the game, being able to turn it off any time he want. The movie stands as the battle for those who wants to solve for self improvmente and the others who wants for the world to keep health and better.
The movie stands as trying to keep the oasis alive and for do that there is necessary to achieve 3 keys, and for getting those keys the characters will need to get to some challenges, and from those challenges we can see the creativity that they did put in this film. The fact that they were able to get so many different licenses from so many differents projects is so on point for this movie, the fact that we see so many characters that we love or like, some object that in some moment had some impact on us make this movie very special, the nostalgia watching this movie is high level, it is a explosion of references almos all the time, and it is pretty cool, also from the context of the movie it doesn't feel forced at all, felt normal due to that world, not just that, but the creativity of the creators had a lot of them on appereance in so nice moments, some shots that were really cinematic and beautiful, the use of powers and skills, appereances and everything, very creative and that is just great. It got references from movies, books, musics, games, adaptations and even people. Hard level of references.
The acting was good, a very big percentage of the movie is in animation, so dubbing ty sheridan did a very good job, but as acting with the other aspects i don't he was that great, it wasn't bad, but i couldn't see that much of a shy a boy that passed thorugh a transformation during the movie. Olivia Cooke did a very good job as dubbing as well, but i believe that she was better in action while live action, i could feel her emotions a little better. Ben Mendelsohn acted nice, he was a sarcastic dude that wanted power and money, very cliche, but he did a similar job as he had in rogue one, but just not that good, he is a little more than just functional, he is ncie. The whole supporting cast did very well, they were all very nice.
One good thing that is on the movie is that controversial thing about gamers that you play online and when you finally meet them, there is some strangeness, cause they always are completely different from what you believe, in face shape, surely in age and sometimes even in genre, but with a little talk the friends get accustomed, this happend in real life and it is really nice the way that they put in the movie.
Cinematographically talking the movie is great, inside the Oasis the colors are dope and jump into you, it does give a life to the unverse, and in the real life it does have a gray color, wich is really nice. The camera participate with the action, also really nice.
The music get your mood all up there, there are a lot of references in it as well, there is a 8bit kind of feeling with some sounds as well, and it is 100% percent connected with the movie.
The movie tries to imput a whole generation way of thinking, that is inside of video games, we are kind of free to do any thing and be anyone in a way that in real life they aren't and can't be, what makes very understandable the whole thing about everybody preferring live inside the virtual reality. By the end it tries to implicate that the real life is more important and really bigger than the video games one, wich considering the world that we are and how people are today it is very important. The power of escapism, like how many time, money and effor do we use to get those things, just for a little moment to get rid of the real life problems, how the entertrain touch us, the movie say why do we love how much those things, but unfortunately it doesn't go in this way as much as i would like.
The story isn't great at all, the story is very cliche, it doesn't have that feeling of danger or seriousness like, what would really happen when they died in the movie or that it have a feeling that the oasis is just a fun place to play, wich is much more than just that, because they don't have more else do go or do, i think the movie could have explored that more.
The movie is definely very good, it does have a stunning visual, with content that for some people will be like walking around in their brains in what they think, wich is great, i believe that they could have gone a little more deep way, but is definely a very good one.… Expand

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Brent_Marchant

Apr 1, 2018

Continuing an unfortunate tradition that has come to characterize many of his recent films, director Steven Spielberg's latest big-budget bloated extravaganza dazzles visually but grows tiresome (some might even say exasperating) rather quickly. The picture plays like a glitzy, nostalgicContinuing an unfortunate tradition that has come to characterize many of his recent films, director Steven Spielberg's latest big-budget bloated extravaganza dazzles visually but grows tiresome (some might even say exasperating) rather quickly. The picture plays like a glitzy, nostalgic stroll down an '80s version of memory lane, chock full of nonstop references to the decade's movies. music and memes (in itself an odd fascination for characters in a story set in 2045). What's worse, the film lacks a fundamentally compelling story and takes about 45 minutes too long to get to a central message that becomes patently obvious early on in the picture. If you're looking for purely mindless entertainment, you'll probably find this moderately amusing, but, if you want something more substantive, skip this one and watch one of the filmmaker's earlier (and much better) offerings.… Expand

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Mnavarro04

Jul 19, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Nothing like the book. Just follow the book.. lotr is next.. when people stand up and say "no more"??… Expand

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