The new movie “Free Guy” starring Ryan Reynolds as “The Guy” has more to do with marketing than a movie. This film has elements of “Groundhog Day”, “Star Wars”, “Men in Black” and the “Matrix” all rolled into one giant series of events that occur inside of a computer game. We have all seen this before, as well as most or all of the action scenes in this film. The mystery here is why the ratings are so high for this movie, 84% on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.7 on IMDB. None of this makes sense. Most movie is a passable 70% only because of the special effects.
Other actors in this film are Channing Tatum who plays one of the action figures inside the computer game and
Lil Rel Howery (easily the most unusual name of any actor in movie history), who plays the Guy’s friend. Life inside of this computer game is all about bank robberies, people getting shot, beaten up and hit by cars – more than a few times. It was hard to see the point of all of this, mainly because the story was disjointed and for the most part, rather boring.
My rating for Free Guy is a passable 70% only for the special effects with a border line recommendation.
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