• A video game character decides to take charge of his life.

  • Ryan Reynolds brings his usual charisma to the adventures of

    Free Guy

    .

  • This comedy stuffed with references to the world of video games is a lot of fun.

We left Ryan Reynolds in

Deadpool's

tight-fitting jumpsuit

.

We find him in a blue shirt mat for

Free Guy

by Shawn Levy.

Except that, in this fantasy, the actor does not play the superhero of the video game in which he lives but an “NPC” or “non-player character” controlled by a computer server which governs his thoughts and actions. .

Every day, this nice, well-dressed young man reproduces the same gestures and witnesses violent actions regulated by the heroes of his universe, piloted at a distance by fierce players.

When this Mister Everybody realizes his mediocre condition, he decides to rewrite the game and give himself a brighter role. 

20 Minutes

explains why we follow its evolution with happiness.

Ryan Reynolds' sympathy capital

Ryan Reynolds is good humor so we want to see him win.

He knows how to show enough self-mockery to be credible as a clumsy hero as well as a badly programmed “big muscle”.

We understand why the heroine goes inside (played by Jodie Comer seen in the series

Killing Eve

) falls for him.

Their relationship between action scenes and romantic comedy is very balanced.

Obvious references (or not)

The geek that lies dormant in each spectator will be at the party because the director of

The Night at the Museum

multiplies the nods to classics of popular culture.

It's impossible not to think

of Peter Weir's

Truman Show

,

John Carpenter's

Invasion Los Angeles

or

Ivan Reitman's

One Endless Day, not

to mention of course,

Rich Moore's

Ralph

Lauren and its parody of the playful video universe.

To write the story, the writers obviously thought of

Grand Theft Auto

.

But perhaps also the most advanced

Doki Doki Literature Club

, a video game created in 2017 where a high school student decimates her rivals by erasing them when she discovers that they are all part ... of a video game.

Good-natured humor

It is a real pleasure to see the hero walking around a town dedicated to a life-size game.

Tanks, machine guns, burglary, car chases, destruction of buildings, superheroes in costumes and other similar delusions are part of his daily life to such an extent that he no longer notices them, which makes the whole irresistible.

You don't have to be a die-hard gamer to recognize the archetypes Shawn Levy has fun with.

He has simmered an action comedy that will appeal to fans of controllers as well as those who know nothing about video games.

Free Guy

is really funny.

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