Earlier today, I went to my local AMC theater to watch the Ryan Reynolds sci-fi comedy flick, Free Guy. Needless to say, it was a very enjoyable movie...and much deeper than the trailers made it out to be!
As a quick synopsis for the film, Free Guy is about a video game character named Guy (played by Reynolds) who was created through advanced artificial intelligence and quickly became aware that the world he lived in wasn't what it appeared to be.
Guy runs into Molotov Girl (portrayed by Jodie Comer), the woman of Guy's dreams who's on a secret mission to expose the true origin of Free City...the metropolis where Guy happily lived in and worked at as a coffee-sipping bank teller.
Like Deadpool, but with a PG-13 rating, Free Guy aptly made use of Reynolds' quick wit and comedic talent. Also providing hilarious and at-times heartwarming moments to the movie were his co-stars...from Comer (who also played Millie in the film's real-world scenes), Joe Keery (as Keys), Utkarsh Ambudkar (as Mouser), Channing Tatum (as Avatar), Matty Cardarople (as Gamer), Aaron W. Reed (as Dude) and Lil Rel Howery (as Buddy) to Taika Waititi (as the hilarious antagonist, Antwan).
In regards to the movies that Free Guy reminded me of, it had moments that were reminiscent of the 1998 Jim Carrey film The Truman Show, the 2018 Steven Spielberg flick Ready Player One, the 1998 rom-com You've Got Mail (starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan), Christopher Nolan's 2010 sci-fi flick Inception, 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (starring Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and unsurprisingly, 1999's The Matrix. But with a much lighter tone and a PG-13 rating.
Free Guy was originally supposed to be released last year, but was obviously postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, the wait was worth it! As mentioned earlier, this movie played to Ryan Reynold's greatest strengths, and it clearly had a couple of messages to convey (from betraying people to earn lots of money and wanting to live life to the fullest, to finding true love) that weren't really emphasized in the film's TV ads and theatrical trailers.
Free Guy is a must-see movie—especially considering that it also had a couple of cool cameos in it! SPOILER ALERT: I won't elaborate on the appearance made by a cast member who starred in several Marvel films like The Avengers, but it was emotional to see the late and great TV game show host Alex Trebek show up in Free Guy.
Before I end this blog entry, let me just say, "Don't have a good day, have a great day!" That is all.
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