“Free Guy” (**1/2 out of four) was a reasonably diverting action comedy about a meek bank teller (Ryan Reynolds) who suddenly realizes that his life is a video game and that he has to save his friends or else they will be deleted by the game’s owner (Taika Waititi) and he has to embrace his role as an everyman superhero! Cleverly done amalgam of elements of “Ready Player One”, “The Matrix”, and “The Truman Show” except those movies were all better and this one starts to skid off into incoherency after a while. Still, it throws in everything but the kitchen sink to never stop moving and give fans their money’s worth. Alex Trebek actually pops up in his final film cameo ever.

Leave a comment