Ready Player One

Ready Player One

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A billionaire Massively Multiplayer Online game creator posthumously challenges his game's players to find his Easter Egg - his entire fortune - in this pop culture-saturated Spielberg sci-fi thriller, based on the hit novel of the same name. Set in the dystopian society of the year 2045, vast numbers of the planet's population escape the awfulness of reality by entering OASIS, the MMO in which the Easter Egg is hidden. All are able to compete, and it's an eager Wade Watts (Tyler Sheridan) who finds the first clue.

72 ^%Rotten
tomatoes®
11 reviews
Directed by Steven Spielberg

2018Rating: M, Violence & offensive language140 minsUSA

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Director:: Steven Spielberg ('Saving Private Ryan', 'Schindler's List', 'Catch Me If You Can')
Writer:: Ernest ClineEric EasonZak Penn
Cast:: Tye SheridanOlivia CookeBen MendelsohnSimon PeggMark RylanceHannah John-KamenT.J. MillerWin MorisakiMark DouglasPhilip Zhao

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Ready Player One | Reviews

72%447 reviews

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

All reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

Flicks, Adam Fresco

Steven Spielberg, master of 1980s pop culture, helms Ernest Cline’s rollicking sci-fi adventure tale, in which young heroes take on big corporation IOI inside the virtual universe of The Oasis, seeking three keys. These lead to the ultimate prize, an Easter egg granting ownership of late trillionaire James Halliday’s (Mark Rylance) magic kingdom in which everything’s a reference. The plot is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Halliday is Willy Wonka, and then there’s the huge array of nods to 1980s pop culture. It’s so meta it’s basically South Park’s taco, within a taco, inside a taco.

Flicks, Luke Buckmaster

It’s rare for Steven Spielberg to make a film so quintessentially of the times. The veteran filmmaker almost always casts his eye back, if not in historical setting (i.e. The Post, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, Empire of the Sun, The Colour Purple, Lincoln, Amistad, War Horse, Bridge of Spies and Munich) than in aesthetic sensibility. His middle of the road, picture book style rarely signals an overt influence from the zeitgeist; Spielberg’s films are hermetically sealed.

Variety

It’s an accomplished and intermittently hypnotic movie. Yet you may feel like you’re occupied more than you are invested.

Total Film

Spielberg gets his game face on with spectacular results. One extended scene - no spoilers! - is as fun as cinema gets.

Time Out

You're left with the overriding sensation of a master playing someone else's greatest hits.

The Telegraph

Its vision of a world fixated on cultural nursery food has a spiky topicality and an occasionally piercing satirical bite.

The Guardian

Others may want to unplug from the paint-by-number characters and shallow plot.

Sydney Morning Herald

Spielberg looks at legacy in virtual tribute to himself.

Newsroom

A film that's as superficial and hollow as one of the season's chocolate treats, but looks as shiny and welcoming.

IndieWire

It runs too long and drags a bunch in its final third, but make no mistake: This is Spielberg’s biggest crowdpleaser in years, a CGI ride that wields the technology with an eye for payoff.

Hollywood Reporter

A rollicking adventure through worlds both bleak and fantastic...

FilmInk

This may be the worst film of Spielberg’s career…

Empire Magazine

Spielberg balances sugar-rush nostalgia with an involving story to create a pure, uncynical, cinematic ride that recaptures the magic of his early films.

Ready Player One | Trailers

Trailer 3 ('Dreamer')

Trailer 3 ('Dreamer')

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US Trailer ('The Prize Awaits')

US Trailer ('The Prize Awaits')

US Trailer ('Come With Me')

US Trailer ('Come With Me')

Featurette ('See the Future')

Featurette ('See the Future')

Ready Player One | Release Details

Ready Player One is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Prime Video and Apple TV and Neon Rentals and Academy On Demand and AroVision.