It was fine. Definitely some interesting concepts and potential, but it all falls by the wayside pretty fast.
The thing that bothered me the most though was all the unrealistic technical stuff. Yeah, I know, Hollywood gonna Hollywood, but when it forms the crux of the plot, it really ruins it for me. e.g. - There's no reason for a dev/support to go in-game to kick a player from the server. They would have tools to kick people without going into the game. - Rebooting the server wouldn't in itself reset everything, you would need to do some sort of rollback for that. - Destroying a bunch of servers in Soonami HQ's basement wouldn't take the game offline; if the company and game are as big as the movie makes out, they would need to have servers in multiple regions. - The fact that the evidence they need to take down Antwan is a clip recorded by some chronically-online Twitch streamer means that there's a 99.9% chance that there's another copy of it just sitting on the internet that Millie could have downloaded without any hassle.
Also, the cameos especially the gamers/streamers really made me cringe. I think I must be old now, and this movie's fan service is aimed at the generation after me.
Review by NitemiceBlockedParent2022-12-19T02:33:43Z
It was fine. Definitely some interesting concepts and potential, but it all falls by the wayside pretty fast.
The thing that bothered me the most though was all the unrealistic technical stuff. Yeah, I know, Hollywood gonna Hollywood, but when it forms the crux of the plot, it really ruins it for me. e.g.
- There's no reason for a dev/support to go in-game to kick a player from the server. They would have tools to kick people without going into the game.
- Rebooting the server wouldn't in itself reset everything, you would need to do some sort of rollback for that.
- Destroying a bunch of servers in Soonami HQ's basement wouldn't take the game offline; if the company and game are as big as the movie makes out, they would need to have servers in multiple regions.
- The fact that the evidence they need to take down Antwan is a clip recorded by some chronically-online Twitch streamer means that there's a 99.9% chance that there's another copy of it just sitting on the internet that Millie could have downloaded without any hassle.
Also, the cameos especially the gamers/streamers really made me cringe. I think I must be old now, and this movie's fan service is aimed at the generation after me.