Description
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
Released: | 28 March 2018 |
Country of origin: | US |
Genre: | Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi |
Production companies: | Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Access Entertainment, Dune Entertainment |
Watched by: | 10 245 of 865 304 |
Runtime: | 2 hours 20 minutes |
IMDB rating: | 7.4 of 10 485 940 |
kinopoisk.ru rating: | 7.45 of 10 599 898 |
The new Spielberg film does not differ much in terms of plot from your standard representative of a fake fiction, when a young man or a young lady, the embodiment of the nerdy dreams of a writer / writer, saves humanity from all sorts of totalitarian regimes and villainous corporations, but damn it, what a nuance here! "The first player to get ready" is a fantastic movie in every sense. This is a love confession to an entire epoch - the strange, sometimes funny, stupid and naive, but delightful eighties. And who better than Steven Spielberg, one of those mastodons who shaped the pop culture and film landscape of that decade, to delight from the bottom of his heart. In terms of the number of references to literature, books, music, and films, the First Player is one of the most ambitious and intense works. If you found Easter eggs with a stupid smile in Scott Pilgrim or Ralph, then you will naturally go crazy with delight if your useless cultural baggage allows you to identify all the winks of the authors. Well, if you just love high-quality movies, then you shouldn't pass by either - the brilliant trio of director Steven Spielberg, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski and composer Alan Silvestri will give you a kind and spectacular film with a gorgeous picture and the very music that will send goosebumps down your body. Spielberg is a master after all.
But you shouldn't expect anything else from the film. This is primarily a pleasant adventure film for the evening, without pretensions to any depth.
Because the novel itself, it seems to me, does not carry anything outstanding in itself. Maybe the world is better revealed there, the characters are alive, and the concept itself is interesting, but it's worth thinking about the rules of that universe for more than five minutes and immediately there are a lot of questions about its existence, and the notorious fanservice is frankly annoying.
In general, I do not understand the admiration for the original novel, I received practically no emotions from reading it. Well, the film brightened up the evening well, both on first viewing and on repeat.