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    Ready Player One

    Aug 19, 2018 4 minutes
    reviews by Stephen Dawson

    Steven Spielberg still has it. At 71 years of age, he can deliver a techno-thriller that’s entertaining, that’s beautifully made, and that is not idiotic in depicting possible future technology.

    It’s 2045 and most of America’s people spend most of their time in a VR world called Oasis. Its creator (played by Mark Rylance) has died a few years earlier and has willed this half-trillion-dollar world to the first person who can complete a particular quest within Oasis. Our young stars, Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke, hope to be the ones. As does a big business led by Ben Mendolsohn. He has tasked hordes of players to win control for him.

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