There are some genuinely chuckle-worthy bits of physical comedy sprinkled throughout Free Guy, as well as some offbeat, memorable quips, courtesy of Reynold’s performance.
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Where Space Jam: A New Legacy is a film that runs on video game logic, Free Guy is a video game movie that runs on Looney Tunes logic. Photos: Alan Markfield/20th Century Studios
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He starts that quest as a way to win her affections, but slowly comes to realize the full implications behind his strange existence. Donning his own set of sunglasses, which reveal a whole range of possibilities within the game, Guy breaks out of his loop as he attempts to level up enough to aid Millie in her search. That changes when Guy crosses paths with Millie (Jodie Comer), a highly skilled player and programmer scouring the world of Free City for proof that a revolutionary game she co-developed was surreptitiously repurposed by the game’s lead developer, Antwan (played to smarmy perfection by Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi). Guy is unperturbed by this, perfectly content to live out the same identical bank robbery as a pedestrian hostage ad infinitum, so long as he can occasionally enjoy some bubblegum ice-cream with his security guard buddy, who’s actually named Buddy (Lil Rel Howery). The game, Free City, is packed with sunglasses-wearing “heroes” who wreak havoc and demolish the city on a regular basis.
He’s an affable bank teller who, unbeknownst to him and those around him, is a non-player character inside a brutal, massive online open-world game - imagine GTA Online with the mania of Fortnite. Reynolds stars as a guy so generic he’s actually named Guy. It’s a competently entertaining comedy about video games (and a whole lot of other stuff) that, unlike so many blockbusters of the moment, doesn’t collapse under the weight pop-culture references and forgot to make actual jokes. Yet in spite of the implied disparity of these aforementioned parts, the film holds together more often than it doesn’t. It’s a Truman Show-esque love story of Guy meets Girl, Guy falls for Girl, Guy discovers reality is a lie and God is a troll. It’s Wreck-It Ralph meets John Carpenter’s They Live. Starring Ryan Reynolds as an NPC in an open-world video game, the action comedy is a pastiche of Ready Player One, Tron, and The Lego Movie.
Not only is Wreck-it Ralph 2 due to hit cinemas on November 30, but the film - which sees Ralph let loose on the internet - is rumoured to reference Fortnite by featuring characters from the game, at least according to a tweet by who shares Disney news.Free Guy, from director Shawn Levy ( Real Steel), is powered by references. Reddit user u/MozzzyyTwitch posted a clip from a Fortnite stream showing an animated in-game screen in the Risky Reels area of the map featuring the Pixar character, fuelling rumours that Ralph might soon be appearing. Now it looks like the game is getting a new cameo from another Disney-owned stocky agent of destruction - Wreck-it Ralph. Earlier in the year, Marvel villain Thanos popped up in Fortnite as a playable character for a limited time to mark the release of Avengers: Infinity War. It makes sense then that the Battle Royale phenomenon would begin to crossover with other intellectual properteriers. Fortnite has, it's fair to say, become a cultural touchstone of video games whether you're a huge fan or bemused by the whole thing.
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