READY PLAYER ONE REVIEW: Makes Gamers Dream Come True

READY PLAYER ONE REVIEW *SPOILER ALERT*

Watched! IMAX 3D!!!

Time           :5:15 pm

Day            : Sunday

Date           : 1st April 2018

Hi guys, Ready Player One is on the cinema right now. I am sure a lot of you had watched the trailer. If not, just click on the tittle above to watch right now. A game based movie that of course, adapted from a book with the same tittle, written by Earnest Cline. In this world, a video game created in the year of 2035 by a guy named Anorak / Halliday (Mark Rylance) . It's called an Oasis. The game is a RPG base where all of us could enter virtually and do anything in there, by using our Avatar. The main character is Wade(Tye Sheridan) with and avatar called Parzival. He spend most of his days life inside Oasis and make friends in there that he never met in real life. 

   The movie starts with introducing main character that telling us a story of how Halliday create the game and then one day, passed away. After he's dead, a video message posted into Oasis that challenge all player to find an Easter Egg he hide inside the Oasis. The person found it would inherit his share in his company, and has a complete control over Oasis. Halliday said nothing about a clue except to find a Copper, Jade and Crystal key. The world Wade live is a world 5 years after that happen. After 5 years not even one person could find the first clue or the first key Halliday left.

   Although Wade mention someone has found the first challenge, which is a car race. Wade always participate with his friend, Aech / Helen (Lena Waithe)  a rather big fellow(avatar). Until today no one ever finish the race. They always failed right before the finish line. Destroyed by a big King Kong, and at this moment Wade meet with Art3mis / Samantha (Olivia Cooke) which is famously known as the Sixers killer. Who is the Sixers? Well basically players employed by a rival company of Halliday that try to get the Easter Egg and control Oasis. 

   Eventually Wade got clue from what you could call Halliday Library which all information about him is archived there. Wade found a cheat of some sort to the car race and finally become the first player to get his hand on the Copper Key. Then Art3mis also get the key cause she saw Wade cheat. Wade then told his best friend Aech who blab to a guy named Daito (Win Morisaki) who told his best friend Sho (Philip Zhao). So now 5 players got the key and they kinda group together as a clan that called High 5. They also got a clue for the Jade Key and this where the adventure starts. In this adventure, you would found that, the rival company, IOI, would do anything to get the Easter Egg, even killing people. Yes! They kill people to get control of a game! This all controlled by Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) an IOI executive. 

   It's always fun to watch the players running around in Oasis and try to figure out the clue. This movie definitely gonna hook some gamers to watch it. You would wish to have Oasis in your life. The story continue with IOI kill Wade's aunt and make him a wanted man. He then found Art3mis in real life and they together with the other High 5 continue to pursue Jade Key and then Crystal Key. IOI hire an assassin called I-R0k (.J. Miller) which you could guess from the name, also a joker. He'sthe one found Wade true identity in real life. 

   Although Oasis is kinda cool for gamers and a lot of us would want it in our life, this movie shows how mess up the world could be if this kind of game released out. Oasis makes people don't want to live their everyday life and get a debt that they can't pay because they spent their money on the game. Wade, the hardcore Oasis player also little by little realize this, with the help of Art3mis. Anyway, they got their Jade Key in The Shining movie (don't ask me, just go watch). Then the last obstacle come when they want to get the Crystal Key. IOI found the location first and put up a shield to prevent anyone else enter the final location. At this time Art3mis has been caught and force to work to settle her father's debt with IOI.

Oh by the way, since Oasis is an open world game type, they let you become any character you want, as the game themed, they have a lot of easter egg for viewers to find. Although some are obvious than the rest. Like, Aech's Iron Giant, Wade's Back to The Future car, and Daito's Gundam! You could look around and find any characters you recognize while watching the movie later, it could be fun. Especially in the last scene where a war breaks between IOI and the rest of Gunters (Egg Hunter) lead by Wade or Parzival. Art3mis success in destroying the shield IOI put up, from inside. A bunch of High 5 got killed (their avatar that is) during this war and when Sorrento use an artifact to wipe out all avatar on the location, Parzival survive, thanks to the mystery man (go watch to know who).   

   The last challenge is to find an easter egg in  the first game that has created an easter egg, which is easy for Wade, the hardcore gamer. As you could guess, Wade found the Easter Egg and share the wealth and right to control Oasis with his friends. Wade also shut down Oasis for 2 days to make sure the players their life in the real life too. :P

All in all, the movie graphic is quite great. However, I do not recommend to watch it in 3D. I watched it in iMAX 3D and found there's not a lot of 3D worth scenes. Apart from Jurassic World trailer. :P . The storyline also has a nice flow in it, but you could see that it is not developed enough to cover the main characters life and principal as I am sure explained in details in the book. Alas, I think a lot of you would enjoy this movies because it has a refreshing setting and well, the director is Steven Spielberg and I know some of you are a fans. So go watch it now, Ready Player One approved by Ibrahim Khaziq!!!