FreeGuy Review: Finally, a Live-Action Video Game Movie With a Sense of Humor
plays a video game character who doesn’t realize that his world isn’t real. Guy is what’s known as an NPC, or “non-playable character.” In a realm of ones and zeros, he’s a zero: just another of the generic background sims who serve as collateral damage for carnage hounds in a game called “Free City,” a “Grand Theft Auto”-style free-for-all where players are encouraged to wreak havoc, joyriding and blasting their way through a virtual metropolis.
Whether through a lack of originality or a desire to minimize the exposition in a movie whose elevated concept could’ve gotten unnecessarily complicated, the opening minutes of “Free Guy” borrow heavily from both “Deadpool” and “The Lego Movie,” as Reynolds wryly narrates the rules of his world: In “Free City,” the “sunglass people” are the heroes , while everyone else are NPCs, blithely going about their “lives” in an endless, uninteresting loop .
Like Jeff Bridges’ character in “Tron,” Millie sneaks into the game trying to prove that the developer “swiped our AI engine for his shooter.
This would be a good point to admit that my own investment in video games dried up almost 30 years ago, when the Sega Genesis came along and rendered my 8-bit Sega Master System obsolete a month or two after I’d poured my life savings into the console. I pretty much stopped playing video games at that point, whereas my brother now spends more of his waking hours gaming than doing anything else.
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