Ready Player One Movie Review. SPIELBERG IS BACK!!!

SPIELBERG IS BACK !!

   I had a very good experience and very much enjoyed the whole time watching the Movie Ready Player One. As the movie was being made the producers and the makers even Spielberg Himself promised that such a movie was a chance for the acclaimed director to return to his original roots and style as a Filmmaker and might i say that he did indeed Deliver such promise. Right of the bat I was immersed while watching the movie because of how it was made from the pacing of the story to the style that it was delivered.

The film was based on a bestselling novel by Ernest Cline while the script was penned by Cline and Zak Penn. The story is Based on Columbus, Ohio 30 years into the future where the world is overwhelmed by climate change and overpopulation a typical problem that the world is now already facing, anyway such future is actually not really farfetched since the invention of the VR where like in the movie people through the OASIS a Virtual World could escape their real world problems that they are facing, but to be honest in my opinion the real setting of the movie is not the real world itself but the OASIS. Based on the movie they do show the connection of both worlds to each other on how it affects the other one and how important it is for somebody to find the Easter egg a quest given to the players of the OASIS where whoever finds it will have the total control of the virtual world itself.

The film did deliver on the positive and negative effects of living in the Virtual world. In regards to the style of the movie they did aim and achieve a realistic effect for the OASIS but in a way that it still embraces the Video game and rather cartoonish style designs that they intended to do. Basically when the movie changes it setting between the real world and the OASIS i really had no problem towards it since they paced it properly and it is very clear when the two setting changes since the style of the two worlds are really quite different. 

In regards to its Nostalgic elements, there is A LOT IN HERE and by a lot i mean A LOT. Based on the movie Wreck it Ralph there is something fun and enjoyable that gives you a happy feeling when you see elements from classic films or in here video games. I did feel like I was a child again when they showed a big set Piece on the movie where the characters had to join and win a race, From revealing the DeLorean itself from "Back to the Future" , a Dinosaur from the Jurassic park and even King Kong Himself there are a lot of elements in here coming from not just classic movies but also present ones.

There are also plenty of  the past and present Video Game references and Easter eggs in the movie that as I watched it i felt younger and younger as i get immersed on the story while it advances. 

There's an all you can eat Nostalgia in the movie. It's Like a buffet and I'm sure that if you watched it plenty of times you could see more references and Easter eggs in it. I mean you could not find all of those in just one sitting of the film.

Although Spielberg did openly borrow from old movies in regards to Raiders of the Lost ark and Star Wars which by the way was created by Spielberg and George Lucas because of their love for pop culture they did create something amazing out of it. I really did not get disappointed on how their movies were delivered. It's actually quite Amazing.

It was really a Magical moment for me like the time where i first saw those Dinosaurs from the first time watching Jurassic Park. It gave me that feeling of joy and adventure again on a movie that I crave so much that I wish that there was more of it. In it's worst the film amounts to a game of spot the reference or eater egg and at its best it gives you this amazement of unexplainable feeling of joy where you just want to get stuck in that moment forever that sugar rush feeling which provides thrill and excitement to the viewer at the same time.

Spielberg himself was happy to talk about the movie Ready Player One as his return to the "from the audience, for the audience " style of Filmmaking and suggested that he has more than pure entertainment in mind on the movie's production.  It did give a message on how the virtual world or the internet itself could isolate somebody from the real world and distract them from their real problems. On Wade's, the main protagonist, opening moment where you are shown how the world was rundown and how the world and each and every person were living their own fantasies.

They also did show how the main Character embodies that type of person who because of the OASIS and because of his isolation from the real world would have a hard time talking to girls and how he confronts the main Villain where we are meant to cheer for him when he declares that " A fan boy knows a hater".

Mark Rylance in here delivered the best performance in the movie playing as the most powerful inventor of the OASIS Halliday where he is portrayed as a Smart and awkward but rather weird figure which is really quite the opposite of how such a person like himself would live if it was 2018.

In short..I HAD an AMAZING TIME watching the movie and as I left the theater I only wished that there was more of it that such movie is the ultimate expression of nostalgia with all of its virtues in it.

If you are trying to have fun while watching a movie then Ready Player One is the Movie for you.

As Spielberg say it is a movie "From the audience, For the Audience"

Enjoy watching it..I sure did.

I give it a 10 out of 10.

P.S. The Gundam Scene was freaking awesome!!