{"id":2876,"date":"2021-11-30T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2021-11-02T19:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:49:05","slug":"movie-free-guy-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/30\/movie-free-guy-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Free Guy (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FreeFree Guy<\/u><\/strong>
\nYear: 2021
\nRating: PG-13
\nLength: 115 minutes \/ 1.92 hours<\/p>\n

This pandemic has messed with my sense of time. I could have sworn that Free Guy<\/em> (2021) had already come out, but it had just been endlessly delayed until this year. As someone who enjoys video games, I was hesitant to watch this movie because it could be filled with too many references that would immediately date it. Fortunately, I was surprised by the few glimpses of a deeper plot hidden behind Free Guy<\/em>‘s goofy exterior. Of course, Ryan Reynolds makes this movie work with his best PG-13 Deadpool<\/em> impression.<\/p>\n

Within the first three minutes of this film, I thought to myself, “Oh, this is just The LEGO Movie<\/em> (2014).” A non-player character (NPC) named Guy (Ryan Reynolds) breaks out of the mundanity of his existence to go on a great video game adventure. It wasn’t until much later in the film that I realized the major plot points of The Truman Show<\/em> (1998) were influencing the climax. Still, using a Grand Theft Auto<\/em>-like video game to explore what it means to play (or live life) without violence is perhaps too subtle to be noticed by most.<\/p>\n

The few qualms I have with this movie come from how video games are created and run. I felt the “big ticking clock” that drives the plot is completely bogus because video games don’t cease to work when a sequel comes out. Sure, there might be a dip in the number of players of an online game, but there are still users of previous versions of a franchise, regardless. Despite this huge and glaring plot hole, Free Guy<\/em> was a fun movie filled with just enough video game references (a la Ready Player One<\/em><\/a> (2018)) not to be dated but also pay homage to its origins.<\/p>\n

A fun movie about video games with some extremely subtle and powerful messages, I give Free Guy<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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