Projected Film

Runtime: 139mins | Director: Steven Spielberg | Rating: 5 Stars Usually, I’d save my answer to the question I posed in the title until the end of my review, but this time I’ll make an exception. Let me be clear – Ready Player One is the greatest video game film to date despite not actually being based on a video game. There, I said it. The year is 2045 and the world has become a bleak and unforgiving place due to the ‘bandwidth riots’ (I have one of those every day with my teenage sister at home…) and other tragic events. In order to escape the harsh realities of the real world, people indulge in The OASIS – a virtual world where anything is possible; you can do what you want, be who you want, whenever you want. There are no limits. Before his death, however, the creator of The OASIS, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), left three challenges which if completed would make the victor the sole heir to the virtual world with total creative control. Therefore, when an ...