Ready Player One Review – ScreenNerds

Those looking for a seemingly never ending parade of pop culture references presented to the audience with all the intelligence, elegance and wit as an episode of The Big Bang Theory are in luck, but those looking for an engaging story or interesting characters or… well, a real movie, are going to end up feeling more than just a little bored and frustrated with a film that simply doesn't even seem to be trying. It might've promised a world of pure imagination, but Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One is instead the cinematic equivalent of empty calories, filling you up with lazy nostalgia bait as it slowly stops your heart.