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In 2045, economic crises brought America to such a state that most residents escape from reality into the global video game OASIS, packed full of references to the pop culture of past decades. A few years earlier, the creator of the game, James Holliday, died, and it became known that his share in the company and power over OASIS would be given to the one who would collect three secret keys scattered throughout the game and find the "Easter egg" left by Holliday. Therefore, now not only ordinary gamers sit in the game day and night, but also corporate players looking for keys for their bosses. One day, an orphan teenager, Wade Watts (Ty Sheridan), who plays under the nickname "Parsifal", solves the mystery of the first key and, together with his friends, tops the rating of Easter egg hunters. This attracts the close attention of Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn), the unscrupulous head of the IOI corporation, which has been trying to take over OASIS for a long time.
Do you want to see how the Steel Giant fights with the Mecha Godzilla? Steven Spielberg made a blockbuster movie especially for you! The grandiose, enchantingly beautiful film adaptation of the eponymous "geeky" novel by Ernest Klein "Get Ready for the First Player" is filled to the brim with characters and quotes from famous films, cartoons, video games and comics.
There are no corporate barriers for Spielberg. He proved this when he collected the characters of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" from all over Hollywood. Now the master has confirmed his talent as a negotiator on a much larger scale. The cultural range of his new film ranges from King Kong to the latest Overwatch video hit, and there are no intermediate stops. It will be possible to recognize them all only when the tape is released on video and it can be studied on frame-by-frame viewing.
Of course, "Get ready for the first player" does not come down to a powerful stream of references and playing classics. But if we subtract them, we will see an extremely naive and flat narrative that imitates the anti–corporate message, but in fact claims that the best remedy against bad capitalists is even richer good capitalists. That is, people who are limited not by laws and norms, but by conscience and a sense of justice. It is clear what else the uber-capitalist Spielberg can say about predatory capitalism... He would be a hypocrite if he "ran over" the current social system in the most corporate cinema of all time.
The characters of the tape's characters are even more primitive than its ideas. "Get Ready for the First Player" is composed as a fairy tale for kids with a characteristic black-and-white division into impeccable "nice guys" and insidious "bad guys". The latter, while not dangerous, are not frightening, and the movie looks not like a tense thriller, but like a crazy semi–comic adventure in which a significant proportion of humor is jokes about Nolan and his henchmen. Ben Mendelsohn really revels in the role of a corporate dude who goes out of his way to appear smarter and cooler than he really is