Director Steven Spielberg
Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn
Rated M
Score 2/6

When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.

I was actually kind of looking forward to watching this one, on the recommendation of my big sister I actually read the book (still a big shock right?) and for the most part I gave I gave it a good review. We’ve known for years that the book is usually always better then the movie and in case your wondering this is the case with Ready Player One.
Now I might be being a little to succinct here but the best way to describe Ready Player One is lazy filmmaking. Now it would be easy to blame writer Zak Penn for all of this but there are equal portions of blame for Author Ernest Cline who is credited to have been involved with the screenwriting process and of course the buck stops with Steven Spielberg, who honestly thought was the kind of director who engage in such lazy filmmaking. I get it that when a book is being adapted into a movie certain things get left out for the sake of timing.
However, the plot of the movie bares only a passing resemblance to that of the book. I get that there is an argument to made along the lines of ‘if you want the same experience, then why don’t you just read the book again?’ That is actually a viable option (though if I did do that there would not be this review to read) considering that there is at least one moment during the final act that needed a scene earlier in the movie for it to make sense. In the past I have spoken of ‘faux sequels’ well taking all the changes into consideration I would label this as a faux adaption.
Now taking a great big deep breath and setting my gripes about the structure of the plot to the side for a moment Ready Player One is still a visually beautiful movie to watch and Ben Mendelsohn is proving himself as a viable cinematic villain.