Author: Stephen Whitty / Source: NY Daily News
Hold on to your joystick.
Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” is a deep, delirious dive into the happily shallow world of ’80s pop culture. It’s back to the future all over again in this story that unfolds in the 2040s, but flashes back to big-hair arena rock, Van Halen and all the “Chucky” jokes you want.
But mostly it’s a movie about video games and their gamers. And for more than two hours, it never lets up on the eye candy or the adventure.
Based on the best-seller, the story is set more than 25 years in the future, when everyone is plugged into the virtual-reality game, the Oasis. For most, it’s a necessary escape from an ugly, polluted world.
For some, though, it’s a chance to meet a real challenge: Solve three puzzles, win control of the game. And of the trillion-dollar company that owns it.
Wade Watts, a kid living in the slums of Columbus, Ohio, thinks he can do it. Nolan Sorrento, owner of the world’s second-biggest company, is determined to do it first.
And willing to do anything, including murder — virtual, or in real life.
For most of the movie we’re with Wade, and the friends and enemies he makes in that virtual world….
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