I wasn't really sure what to expect from this movie, only that Ryan Reynolds is consistently watchable especially in comedic roles.
I can only say that watching this movie may be the best thing I will see this year. On the surface, it's a freaky love story where a background character in an online game ''breaks'' his normal programming and falls for a real female player, not realising his own nature or the fact that he is in a game at all. Sidenote:- luckily the female avatar was being played by an actual female in the real world.
The real-life player needs help so she teaches him how to level up, not by being a sociopath like most players, but by being a ''good guy'', which is something he can relate to.
Running parallel to this story is his growing awareness that he is but a simulation as is his whole universe and this, for me, is the meat of the story. How he deals with that problem is a deeper question than I can relate here.
This movie never stops, it is funny, touching, full of nods and winks to other movies/games/TV shows and I must see it again.
Top marks and highly recommended.
I can only say that watching this movie may be the best thing I will see this year. On the surface, it's a freaky love story where a background character in an online game ''breaks'' his normal programming and falls for a real female player, not realising his own nature or the fact that he is in a game at all. Sidenote:- luckily the female avatar was being played by an actual female in the real world.
The real-life player needs help so she teaches him how to level up, not by being a sociopath like most players, but by being a ''good guy'', which is something he can relate to.
Running parallel to this story is his growing awareness that he is but a simulation as is his whole universe and this, for me, is the meat of the story. How he deals with that problem is a deeper question than I can relate here.
This movie never stops, it is funny, touching, full of nods and winks to other movies/games/TV shows and I must see it again.
Top marks and highly recommended.