Ready Player One Review

Ready Player One


Release Date: 29th March 2018 - Australia 

 
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures
Village Roadshow Pictures
Amblin Entertainment
Amblin Partners
De Line Pictures

Distribution
Roadshow Distribution 


Genre: Sci-Fi

Rating: M

Runtime: 140 minutes


Budget: $175,000,000

Box Office Gross: $582,890,172 (Worldwide) 


Plot Summary
In 2045, a teenager enters a treasure hunt inside a virtual reality universe called OASIS after its creator dies and the fortune that he leaves behind is the grand prize. (Source - Metro Cinemas)


Cast
Tye Sheridan - Parzival/
Wade
Olivia Cooke - Art3mins/
Samantha
Ben Mendelsohn - Sorrento
Mark Rylance - Anorak/
Halliday
Simon Pegg - Odgen Morror
T.J. Miller - I-R0k
Lena Waithe - Aech/Helen
Philip Zhao - Sho
Win Morisaki - Daito
Hannah John-Kamen -
F'Nale Zandor
Ralph Ineson - Rick
Susan Lynch - Alice

Clare Higgins - Mrs. Gilmore

Laurence Spellman - Lame Tattoo Guy (Reb)

Perdita Weeks - Kira
Joel MacCormack - Sixer #6655

Isaac Andrews - Halliday - 7 Years Old
Letitia Wright - Reb (Safe House)
Mckenna Grace - Elementary
Kid
Lulu Wilson - Elementary Kid
Jacob Bertrand - High School
Kid

Crew
Producer/Director - Steven
Spielberg
Based on Novel/Screenplay/
Co-Producer - Ernest Cline
Screenplay - Zak Penn
Executive Producers - Bruce
Berman and Christopher
DeFaria
Executive Producer/Unit
Production Manager - Daniel
Lupi
Executive Producer/First
Assistant Director - Adam Somner
Producers - Donald De Line,
Dan Farah and Kristie
Macosko Krieger

Co-Producer/Visual Effects
Producer - Jennifer Meislohn

Casting Directors - Lucy
Bevan and Ellen Lewis
Production Designer - Adam
Stockhausen
Set Decorator - Anna Pinnock

Supervising Art Director - Mark Scruton

Senior Art Director - Stuart Rose

Supervising Design Director/
Visual Effects Art Director:
ILM - Alex Jaeger
Costume Designer - Kasia Walicka-Maimone
Cinematography - Janusz Kaminski
Second Unit Director/Stunt Coordinator - Gary Powell
Special Effects Supervisor - Neil Corbould
Special Effects Co-Supervisor - Keith Dawson
Visual Effects Supervisors: ILM - Roger Guyett and
Grady Cofer 

Visual Effects Supervisor: Digital Domain - Matthew E. Butler
Associate Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM - Daniele Bigi
Visual Effects Producer: Digital Domain - Daniel Brimer
Visual Effects Art Director - Christian Alzmann

Digital Effects Supervisor: Digital Domain - Joel Behrens

Animation Supervisor - Kim Ooi

Animation Supervisor: ILM - David Shirk
CG Supervisor: Digital Domain - Brian Gazdik

Film Editors - Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn
Supervising Sound Designer/
Re-Recording Mixer - Gary Rydstrom
Music - Alan Silvestri


Review
'READY PLAYER ONE' has every fanboy’s dream of having each of their favourite works of popular culture blend with a dystopian setting and elements of a virtual online role-playing game into a huge crossover. I’m surprised that Steven Spielberg is still the world’s most legendary filmmaker and he hasn’t slowed down despite his advanced age. He is slowly regaining his balance at helming what is to become his biggest sci-fi movie ever. 

The visuals were amazing and so does the brisk pace but the huge surprise for us is the endless list of pop cultural references of films, music, literature and video games. I liked how the movie has contained so much that includes 'The Iron Giant' to 'Halo' as each had come from a variety of nostalgia, even Spielberg lend a few self-references of film series like 'Back to the Future' and 'Jurassic Park'. However, the lack of character development prevents this feature from escalating into this year’s best film list. This particular flaw didn’t stop the movie from being lauded by critics as having improvements to the story-line which are not used in the original book.

The actors had some unique talent when being in a star-studded cast and their acting has been ranged from decent to terrific. Actors like Ben Mendehlson and Mark Rylance are no exceptions when they were truly capable on their own performances. Tye Sheridan remains the best of these performers and somehow he just went from being Cyclops of 'X-Men' to a non-superhero role of the main protagonist in a sci-fi film. 

Spielberg isn’t ready to retire just yet and 'READY PLAYER ONE' is his new captivating masterpiece. It's not so much a good feature but actually worth-seeing and therefore is semi-decent. Many pop-cultural fans are excited to see the film again and so am I, you may have to wait until in the near future when the film comes out on Blu-ray, DVD and net-stream. 

Star rating: (7/10) Good Movie

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