Ready Player One

Ready Player One is Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's near-future Sci-fi adventure novel.  It is set in 2045 where people see reality as boring and they escape to a virtual universe through a game called "The Oasis". In the oasis,  people can be anywhere, be anyone and do whatever they like . The only limitation is one's imagination.
    The main character Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan)  whose avatar's name is Perzival lives in Columbus, Ohio and like other gamer he spends his spare time logged in the game. There is a hunt going on for an Easter egg which the creator of the game James Halliday (Mark Rylance) who is dead hid somewhere in the game . To get the egg, the egg hunters or "Gunters" for short are to find three keys by winning three challenges.
     

The winner at the end of the third challenge will get Halliday's fortune and control of the oasis parent company.  Since Halliday was obsessed with the 1980's (the time he grew up in),  Wade and other gunters began to study life in the 80's. Wade's avater, Perzival gets a key first and he became Popular and four other gunters who became his friends get the key too. Soon the IOI a global corporation determined to win the hunt went after them. The IOI hired Proffessional gamers known as Sixers to hunt on their behalf.  Wade and his friends later known as the "High Five" work together both in real life and in the oasis to keep the egg out of the reach of IOI.

    In Ready Player One there are both scenes of virtual and real life violence.  The characters flirt,  kiss and touch each other suggestively.  There is a little cursing in this movie .  The target audience are gamers and fans of the book.  The themes of teamwork, perseverance and valuing real life connections are clearly seen. You don't have to read the book to understand it in fact the movie is easier to understand than the book.
     Ready player one was released on March 29th 2018 and it runs for 140 minutes. It is rated PG 13 for sequence of sci-fi action violence, bloody images,  some suggestive material nudity and language.