But the great man is not infallible: his last science-fiction foray, a 2005 take on HG Wells' War of the Worlds, started bracingly before getting bogged down in dreary plot details, and Ready Player One follows a similar trajectory. Ready Player One revels in the animated special effects its storyline necessitates, and playfully peppers its frantic storyline with references to other movies. But there's something very on the nose and witless about the way this, and most everything else in Ready Player One, is done. The most interesting bits of Ready Player One come early on, when a grim future in which people cling to the remnants of comfort in rusty, overgrown cities is memorably created. If only the virtual world had been so interesting, because the film is quickly overwhelmed by it.

Source: Irish Independent March 30, 2018 06:11 UTC