The year is 2045 and most people have lost all hope of a better future and rely on gaming in the Oasis, a virtual world where anything and everything is possible. Parzival In Virtual Reality (Ty Sheridan) or Wade in real life (also Tye Sherdan) enters the Oasis often, but now there is a new wrinkle: the creator of the Oasis Anorak/James Halliday (Mark Rylance) has died and has left a legacy and has left clues to 3-Keys or as he called them, an Easter Egg, and the one who finds the 3-Keys will inherit all he owned in life and will gain control of the Oasis. Wade decides to find those keys and win.

There is simply too much CGI in here and after a while, it put me into la-la land. The story bounces back and forth between real life and the Oasis with Virtual Reality. And, truth be told someone liked playing with the CGI buttons too much and we find ourselves watching everything in the Oasis for way too long. And all became quite boring for me. Yes, the CGI is fantastic, no doubt about it, but when it goes on for too long I find myself dozing off. The story could have been cut back some, but like I said someone liked playing with the CGI buttons and I dozed off many times. Not good.

There is a love interest for Wade/Parzival and that is Art3mis in VR (Olivia Cooke) and Samantha (also Olivia Cooke) in real life and she is also into finding those keys.

Am glad I was awake when Parzival and Art3mis danced to the music of "Staying Alive" Very nice.

Notables: Ben Mendelsohn as Sorrento a bad guy who wants to make sure Parzival doesn't find the keys; Simon Pegg as the Curator who has access to all of Halliday's memories in life; Mark Ryland is also Anorak, an Avatar an all knowing Wizard; Win Morisake as Daito, a friend of Parzival; Philip Zhao as Sho, also a friend of Parzival; Lena Waithe as Aech/Helen, friend of Parzival and he is a very muscular mechanic. (you did say "he", right? ) Yes, anyone can be anything in the Oasis. Weren't you paying attention?

If this was shorter and finding the keys was quicker, this may have been okay, but it wasn't. It just went on for too long especially with too much background info between Parzival and Art3mis.

This was a CGI-Fest and there was too much of it. On the whole I would say it's watchable if you don't doze off, but to be fair I would say Gamers may love it for whatever reason. They love this stuff. (5/10)

Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Humor: Hard to say. Language: Soft stuff only. Rating: C