Free Guy is the new film starring Ryan Reynolds as Guy, a person inside an online computer game called Free City who works at the local bank which is frequently robbed as one of the games many missions but one day he sees a beautiful dark haired woman (Jodie Comer) and it opens his eyes to being potentially more than just a background character something that begins to upset the head of the gaming company that runs Free City (Taika Waititi.)
Free Guy was not only delayed 13 months due to the pandemic but it was also one of the final 20th Century Fox films that Disney inherited when they bought that company so it’s had a long road to be installed in cinemas all around the world (I saw posters for it at the beginning of 2020 before the Darkness came) but I was still keen for it as I like Ryan Reynolds (good Canadian kid by the way) and the previews looked fun even if I thought there were too many of them that seemed to spell out the whole film before anyone got to see it.
Well my anticipation paid off as this was a good fun time at the cinema and like Suicide Squad I feel like I enjoyed this movie more seeing it on the big screen and the action sequences for the most part really benefit from that big screen and sound experience that simply cannot be replicated in the home try as we might and those action moments are really cool with some great visuals that really made them stand out for me.
The performances also work well for the most part, Reynolds has been on a bit of a winning streak for me recently with the first Deadpool and Detective Pikachu (didn’t care for Deadpool 2 one bit) and he continues that streak here as he is charming and loveable and fun to watch here and that really comes across as your watching him on here, he has been very hit and miss over the years but he’s been more hit than miss recently, Jodie Comer is pretty good as well while there are also some very fun cameos and references.
But the person who generates the best laughs is Taika Waititi, most of his lines as the over the top head of the gaming company made me laugh out loud quite a bit in the cinema and like Reynolds continues to be a fun watch on screen in front of the camera as well as behind it even though I didn’t love Jojo Rabbit as much as others did.
And so that was Free Guy and it’s a nice, fun, likeable movie that delivers on that promise handsomely, 3 out of 5.
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