Ready Player One (2018)

★ 7.6 2h 20m 16,757 votes IMDb
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When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

Ready Player One

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Tye Sheridan
Tye Sheridan as Parzival / Wade Age 29 · Elkhart, Texas, USA Tye Kayle Sheridan (born November 11, 1996) is an American actor. His breakout role came in 2012 with his critically acclaimed performance in Jeff Nichols' "Mud," where he starred alongside Matthew Mc...
Olivia Cooke
Olivia Cooke as Art3mis / Samantha Age 32 · Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK Olivia Kate Cooke (born 27 December 1993) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Alicent Hightower in the fantasy drama television series House of the Dragon (2022–present). In telev...
Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn as Sorrento Age 57 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian actor. He first rose to prominence in Australia for his break-out role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987). He gained international attentio...
Lena Waithe
Lena Waithe as Aech / Helen Age 41 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Lena Waithe (/weɪθ/; born May 17, 1984) is an American actress, producer, and screenwriter. She is the creator of the Showtime drama series The Chi (2018–present) and the BET comedy series Boomerang (...
T.J. Miller
T.J. Miller as I-R0k (voice) Age 44 · Denver, Colorado, USA Todd Joseph "T.J." Miller (born June 4, 1981) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. After college, Miller moved to Chicago and began to perform improv and stand-up comedy. He toured with The Se...
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg as Curator / Ogden Morrow Age 56 · Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England, UK Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), dir...

Audience Reviews

Rodney Wollam 3/10 Apr 03, 2018
There's a moment in this movie when the central character says "I love her". His friend hastily replies, "Slow down bro... she could be a 300 lb man living in his mom's basement." In the very brief beat between the two lines, I thought FINALLY a movie about falling in love completely independent of what a person's genetics may be. And then the crushing cynicism in a dystopian world where there is little to live for and even less to hope for: even in a nightmare, a fat man is undateable.

Don't worry though. If you have the skills you may end up on top. Just like Ben Mendelsohn's slave-owning antagonist almost did. Because in this story, it's not a world where anyone feels compassion or empathy. It's a world where everyone only thinks of themselves. A sociopath's dream. And that's what earns the top prize.

I love looking at Tye Sheridan. But not enough to sit through this again.
izgzhen 7/10 Apr 07, 2018
I watched this movie because I was once working in the VR industry and really curious what it could tell us (even though I am not really interested after watching the trailer).

Anyway, the experience is not bad (in 4DX). But not recommended for a second watch since there is little to dig and feel except for the numerous, eye-dazzling amount of Easter eggs.

Sorry.
crackerboi Apr 22, 2018
Another great movie from Steven Spielberg
lasse 5/10 Apr 28, 2018
Obviously everything from the book cannot go into the movie, however a lot of what got into the movie was not from the book. Too much focus on car chases and too little on solving a puzzle.

If you haven't read the book, read the book! it's much more awesome!
Gimly 5/10 Sep 13, 2018
Can you imagine watching this if you didn't give a fuck about the '80s? Like there's nothing that happens in _Ready Player One_ that isn't a reference to **something** at least, but almost all of them are '80s references. I mean I worship at the altar of 1980s' references on a daily basis, and even for me this was only so-so, I fear to imagine what _Ready Player One_ might be like for someone who actually demands originality.

Honestly, it was better than I was expecting, I'll front to that. The promotional campaign for this had the barometer for my excitement on this at a firm zero, and by the time I had finished watching it I was surprised to find I had actually enjoyed multiple things about it, but _Ready Player One_ is an exercise in lack of subtlety, and really tries your limits on suspension of disbelief. Not because of the fantastical endless virtual world inhabited by near every creation since the dawn of pop-culture, but because of the character interactions in their "real world".

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

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