‘Free Guy’ movie review: Ready Player Ryan Reynolds
The Hindu
With a wildly inventive concept and fantastic action, this video game comedy-thriller is a lot of fun
What makes Free Guy so wonderful apart from the clever concept, dizzying action and bright pop of colours, is the delightful lightness of being. The idea of characters becoming self-aware is not new. Nor is the idea of us being tiny cogs in some big, fat, hectic wheel turned by unfeeling, unthinking gods who will most definitely kill us for sport. The Matrix put Neo and gang in a simulation (steak and all), The Truman Show was reality TV while Ready Player One saw people voluntarily choose to live in a simulation to escape the horrors of the post-apocalyptic real world. . The Matrix was rather serious about the rabbit hole, the red and blue pill and Kansas going bye-bye. Free Guy, on the other hand, has a bunch of fun with its very serious concept, which like The Matrix uses Plato’s (no less) Allegory of the Cave as its central conceit.More Related News