The first reactions to new Steven Spielberg film Ready Player One are in following the film’s premiere at SXSW Festival in tEXAS.
The film also stars Ben Mendelsohn, Olivia Cooke and Mark Rylance who plays the world’s deceased creator James Halliday.
Early reactions have praised the film – the first of two Spielberg films to be released in 2018 following Best Picture-nominee The Post – as “the film the novel deserves,” while one critic branded “the geekiest movie” ever created.
Ready Player One follows a teenage gamer (Tye Sheridan) as he participates in a high-stakes pursuit to find hidden treasure in a virtual reality world called the OASIS.