#I am player one movie#
All I can say is that's where the "ride" feel of a Spielberg movie kicked in for me. It's when Wade goes after the second key that the movie kicks into another level.
With the victory, he becomes the first person to get the first key.Ī lot of that race is spoiled in the movie's trailers, but it's merely an appetizer for what's to come. Things pick up when Wade discovers a cheat to the race he's been trying to win with no success (driving the DeLorean from "Back to the Future," Wade can never seem to get past King Kong to the finish line). But for the most part we are in the Oasis following Wade's journey. Spielberg still gives us his baseline theme that is in almost all of his movies: the main character's troubled family life. The corporation IOI has a team of people working day and night to find the egg led by a former Halliday intern, Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn). But at the start of the movie, it's been five years and no one has found any of the keys.ĭuring "Ready Player One," we follow Wade and his friends as they try to find the keys. He also left three keys that lead to the Easter egg. When Halliday died (before the events of the movie), he announced that he had left an Easter egg buried somewhere in the Oasis and that the first person to find it would receive a fortune and ownership of the Oasis. And thanks to the creator of the Oasis, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), there's also a whole slew of 1980s pop-culture references he loved as a kid ("You can even climb a mountain with Batman," Wade says at the beginning of the movie).īut there's one more big reason to enter the Oasis. The longer you are in the Oasis and building a coin count, the more cool things you can accumulate. There people can be and do whatever they want through their avatars. Personally, I think "Ready Player One" is Spielberg's most enjoyable movie since 2002's "Catch Me If You Can" starring Leonardo DiCaprio. (And I'm not even going to mention "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." Just pretend that never happened.)įor a Spielberg blockbuster that was universally praised, you have to go all the way back to Tom Cruise running from aliens in 2005's "War of the Worlds." But I'll go even further back than that. Even when he tried to sprinkle in a few catered to the under-30 crowd in that time - "The BFG" and "The Adventures of Tintin" - they were box-office duds that were mostly ignored by the Spielberg die-hards. Lately the Oscar-winning director has focused on more serious fare like "The Post," "Bridge of Spies," "Lincoln," and "War Horse." That means many moviegoers haven't gotten that incredible Spielberg pulse-pounding, entertaining movie in over a decade. Along with the countless pop-culture references (I don't think I could catch them all even if I saw it five more times), Spielberg dusts off his action-adventure storytelling toolbox to prove to everyone he still can make a blockbuster movie at a high level.