Was expecting this to be much worse based on reviews, but honestly, it wasn’t awful. That said, it’s largely forgettable. The needle drops are bad, the story is incredibly well-trodden, and yet… it’s okay.
Visually, it looks fantastic—the robots are impressively realistic, even if some of them border on insufferable. The nostalgia angle, however, feels off. It’s not as obnoxious as Ready Player One, but for a film set in 1994, it somehow references things that didn’t even exist then.
There’s potential here for a more compelling version that critiques nostalgia itself, but unfortunately, this film just isn’t that.
