free guy review

Ryan Reynolds brings his beautiful charisma to the role of a video game character who doesn’t want to sit on the sidelines.

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One day you head off to a bank robbery, prepare for a daily burglary, and the next day you discover that you are a bystander in a video game. Tough break.

That was the scene in which Guy (Ryan Reynolds) found himself in the shocking new comedy “The Free Guy,” directed by Shawn Levy. Guy is comfortable with his boring life in the Free City game until he meets a player named Millie (Jodie Comer), who writes code looking for evidence that Antwan (Taika Waititi), a money-hungry hero after the game, has stolen. his code. With the help of his friend and colleague Keys (Joe Keery), Millie tries to break the code with the top guy Guy, who has become a viral hero in the gamersphere.

“Free Guy” agrees as its main character; Reynolds dives into her endless source of nice-charisma to bring out the best comedy that sounds like “Deadpool” Lite. And various comedic characters (Lil Rel Howery as a close friend of the ignorant Guy, Waititi as a poisoned boss) and cameos (the precious Channing Tatum and the amazing surprise) make for a very funny experience.

But innovative? Not so much. In theory, "Free Guy" remembers the PG-13 version of "Westworld" (few stabbings, no sex). Existing current stories about agency, morality and artificial intelligence play a second character unit in a straw-man man’s argument about the basis of procurement. Jokes, too, feel well-composed; sometimes they’re funny, but it’s not surprising.

It is not a distraction to say that art conquers capitalism, a lovely episode of love is solved and everyone is happy in the end. "Free Boy" is interesting, but there is not much to remember about the same old dream, the same old boss fight, and the end of the game.