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'Free Guy' Movie Review: Inspiringly enlivened video-game based entertainer
Updated On: 15 September, 2021 12:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
Gimmicky, gamey and overactive, ‘Free Guy’ is eager to please and is engaging and fun for most of its runtime. There’s so much going on with repetitive routines and replayed segments with multiple outcomes that it feels like the narrative is going around in circles
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Free Guy
Censor: A
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Joe Keery, Taika Waititi, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Owen Burke, Kayla Caulfield
Director: Shawn Levy
Rating: 3/5
There’s no restricting hi-tech imaginaries in this galloping world of technologically evolved cinema. The narrative of ‘Free Guy’ spread-eagles across media within and outside the internet/gaming framework, introducing us to a bank teller called Guy (Ryan Reynolds) who comes to realise he is a mere background character in a hugely successful open world video game, Free City, that will soon go offline for new-fangled sequel versions.
Guy is imminently likeable, shares wisecracks with his best pal, Buddy (Lil Rel Howery), wears the same outfit every day, orders the same coffee, utters the same dialogue and goes to work at the same bank which gets robbed multiple times a day by actual players in this game. It’s not for him to care… until he spots real player Molotov Girl (Jodie Comer), falls head-over-heels, breaks his pattern and follows her out of the game. As he goes from the imagined to the real, he grabs a pair of sunglasses that reveal what the actual players see - missions, medikits, hubs, and all other things familiar to modern gamers. The best thing here is that the film has real world gamers and streamers like Ninja, Pokimane, and DanTDM in cameos, doing their bit to liven things up. Guy’s breaking away, makes him hugely popular and the fact that the AI is now working independent of the game puts publisher Antwan (Taika Waititi) in a fix.
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