Ryan Reynolds seems to be becoming king of these lightweight action comedy vehicles, although sadly FREE GUY is one of his most lightweight. It has a jokey, one-note premise about an online video game world (think GRAND THEFT AUTO) where Reynolds plays a non player character who gradually becomes sentient. If that sounds like an idea from classic sci-fi, forget it; this is all about silly comedy and an overwhelming amount of CGI effects. I'm no curmudgeon and this is fun at times, and it has some actors in support giving quirky performances, Taika Waititi in particular. But as with many of these films, it gets increasingly overblown and just goes on and on when it really didn't need to.