Summary
Set in a near-future dominated by immersive gaming culture and corporate influence, a group of elite players find themselves pulled into a high-stakes competition where the boundaries between virtual combat and real-world consequences begin to collapse. As alliances fracture and secrets surface, survival depends on more than skill—it requires trust in a system designed to betray them.

Director
Gore Verbinski

Writer
Gore Verbinski

Cast

  • Sam Rockwell
  • Michael Pena
  • Zazie Beats
  • Haley Lu Richardson
  • Juno Temple

Rotten Tomatoes: 86%

Metacritic: 64

  • Q@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    I thought it was really engaging even for a longer movie.

    I honestly thought though that the whole school shooting part didn’t have much that couldn’t have been cut. There’s 100 reasons why clones would be a thing other than school shootings. It was too on the nose and cutting would drop 20-25 minutes from the movie and not lose anything from the main point or story.

    If I sold someone this as a comedy, I don’t think I’d be doing a good job. It’s funny but has some serious topics it dives pretty heavily into and some people will be caught off guard like I was.

    • exaybachae@startrek.websiteEnglish
      0·
      11 days ago

      Spoiler alert:

      That side story, like the others, helps increase the absurdity of the overall story, to show that not only the time traveling bit is unrealistic, the entire story and all it’s parts are. Each party had a story that was equally absurd before the crazy time traveler showed up, but they were all still at that diner acting like they were still in the real world… It’s kinda like a snowball, the stories kinda ramp up to the conclusion, and they all tell different stories through the same lense in order to get there. Then it pulls from all those stories at the end to flip the script.

      It was really well done.

      • Q@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Valid and it fits the narrative being shown through the movie. I just didn’t like having to think about the shootings and the loss the character went through even if it does the job of displaying the absurd world the people are living in.

        It doesn’t make it a bad movie, I definitely still enjoyed it, I was just caught off guard by how it made me feel.