Free Guy
Another Reynolds masterpiece here. Surprisingly sweet for a movie that so evidently hates its own subject matter. Hollywood does the usual thing of portraying all gamers as shut-in losers, which makes it hard to sympathize with the game designer protagonists, even if they have managed to create a fully functional emergent AI from gaming code, like if the "arrow to the knee" guy used disliking archers as the catalyst for the other 4 billion leaps forward it would take to become sentient. And nobody would ever use disliking things as the entire basis for their identity. Haha, now that is funny.
Taika Waititi is unfunnily over the top in every scene, cutting away to streamers restating the action every five minutes is painfully stupid, total cringe bro, and Reynolds' funniest lines are all cribbed from his tweets about how great Aviator Gin tastes.
And yet. It's kind of giddily fun for all that. The high comes as Reynolds tries to rally the other in-game NPCs to fight for their freedom, by getting an IRL human to come and tell them how much better life could be. "How often are banks robbed in the real world?" Hardly ever! "What about corpses? How many corpses do you see per hour?" None per hour! "What about gun violence? See a lot of gun violence?" Actually, that's a big problem. A massive problem.
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