The 80's is the decade with advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economics leaning toward capitalism, mostly due socioeconomic change. Still a period where pop culture, political movements, social changes, and technology influenced everyone around the world, it's perhaps now the most trendy subject in movies and TV shows.

Stranger Things, Halt and Catch Fire, The Goldbergs, The Americans, 21 Jump Street, Deutschland 83 and of course the long list of reboots from Hollywood a perfect excuse to keep squeezing money from fans: Star Wars, Star Trek, Pee Wee, Dallas, Dynasty, the list goes on and on. There is so many tributes, studies, and analysis about this period of time that you can spend months watching documentaries about what happens and how it happen.

Finally, another tribute based on a book comes to life, from the hands of a director who makes love the 80's with famous characters like Indiana Jones, E.T., Gremlins and Back to the Future.

Ready Player One is probably one of the biggest 80's tributes ever made to the film. In 2045 earth population have become a confined trailer park slum city. The citizens of the earth escape reality by using virtual reality world name OASIS which is the ultimate VR experience, you can be whatever you want in any place you like and play any game you want. One of the creators of the OASIS James Halliday (Marl Rylance) before his death left an easter egg in the game, if found, allows the player to win the full ownership of the OASIS. Everyone is trying to win this game and it's has been impossible for the players.

One of the players is Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) an orphan living in Columbus, Ohio with his aunt and abusive husband/boyfriend, Wade has the avatar Parzival. Aech is Parzival friend in the OASIS and they have teamed up to win the 3 keys necessary to win the game. At the same time, the CEO of a company name Innovative Online Industries Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) recruited an army of people to win the game too, they are fully trained and supported by a team of geeks to knows every single aspect of James Halliday life. But still, they have not won the game. Art3mins (Olivia Cooke) is another avatar who's trying to achieve the same mission, is doing it for the cause of save the OASIS itself.

Ready Player One becomes a full pack action film, with a few clever moments, but sadly miss the point. For someone like me who lived the 80's to the fullest, this movie turns into a digital mashup of "some" of the most famous cultural references of the 80's, the problem is, you get so immersed into a virtual world and forget the essence of what that time was like. Steven Spielberg defeats the purpose of the movie message which embraces real life versus reality. When you watch this movie you are experiencing something like being in an amusement park where the sound is so loud that your seat is shaking, I can almost assure you they can splash water at you, to make you feel you are there.

The percentage of live action footage vs computer generating is so unbalanced that makes you wonder, why don't just make the whole film CGI? I was unable to connect with any of the characters and also I hate to say this, but Sorrento character is such a terrible villain, it's clumsy with a lack of planning to make his plan works. Maybe is just a nice metaphor for typical American CEO who just know to use the resources to get what they want, but it's so stupid because it needs an army of trained monkeys to help them.

One of the things I can rescue from this movie is the easter eggs, there is so many that you can spend the whole film looking for them. Stanley Kubrick tribute was my favorite, perhaps the best scene.

In the end, the film is incredibly long and you just desperately want to end after watching a such a lame showdown between the heroes and the villains.