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Ready Player One

(2018)

It’s possible that deeply addicted computer game players will find this gigantic mess fun. I recognized some of the figures from games of the past. But it’s basically just Fast and Furious in cyberspace, and it was so boring and pointless we stopped watching after about thirty minutes. I mean, if this stupid chase with nothing at stake was how it started out, it was frightening to think of how silly and overblown the ending might be. I’ll never know, and I can happily live with that.