After the damp splutter that was The BFG, Ready Player One seeks to blast the great entertainer back into noisy, wonder-struck mayhem. Taking place mostly among interlocking computer-generated realities, Ready Player One makes a virtue of its own mounting chaos. Ready Player One is a grand act of stage management, but it lacks the clean narrative punch of Spielberg’s early masterpieces. But Ready Player One (book and film) is very much about that off-the-peg memory porn. At its best (to adapt a simile often used as criticism of such films) Ready Player One is like watching a really gifted gamer play the later levels of a great game that you will never be good enough to reach.

Source: The Irish Times March 27, 2018 13:18 UTC