There's nowhere left to go - nowhere except the OASIS.ĬHANG: Imagine if someone had taken the eye-popping worlds within worlds of 'Inception,' 'The Matrix' and last year's 'Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets,' then smashed them together into a giant CGI megamall, and you'll have some idea of how this astoundingly elaborate virtual reality universe operates. And I ended up here, sitting here in my tiny corner of nowhere. But he died when I was a kid - my mom, too. My dad picked that name because it sounded like a superhero's alter ego, like Peter Parker or Bruce Banner. TYE SHERIDAN: (As Wade) My name's Wade Watts. Our guide to this brave new world is Wade Watts, a young orphan played by Tye Sheridan, who lives with his aunt in Columbus. And in 'Ready Player One,' Steven Spielberg's fantastical but fatally overblown juggernaut of a movie, anyone can strap on virtual reality goggles and achieve the ultimate escape. When Dorothy got tired of Kansas, she flew over the rainbow.

People dwell in cramped trailers stacked on top of each other in rickety towers. JUSTIN CHANG, BYLINE: It's the year 2045, and Columbus, Ohio, has become an overpopulated junk heap of a city. It's called 'Ready Player One.' It features Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance and Lena Waithe, and film critic Justin Chang calls it Spielberg's return to his escapist roots. After tackling the story of the Pentagon Papers in 'The Post,' Steven Spielberg has a new movie that's a sci-fi action adventure film adapted from a novel by Ernest Cline.

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