Overall, I think the movie did a good job of conveying the story, but it has one fatal flaw: A completely new (and unrelated to the book) scene from an old R-Rated horror movie, The Shining, which is about murder by the mentally ill. Not only does The Shining NOT have anything to do with 80's culture, and is NOT featured prominently in the book like "War Games" and other 80's movies, it also has NOTHING to do with Gaming. And content from an old R-Rated horror movie about mentally ill murderers has NO place in a PG-13 rated movie about video games which is attracting as many kids as adults.

EPIC FAIL Spielberg. There's enough sickos in the world, we really didn't need you pushing The Shining on a new young generation, and using video games to do so.