Free Guy

Name: Free Guy
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Science Fiction
Released: 2021-08-11
Duration: 115 min

Life's too short to be a background character.

20211h 55mcritics 7.4/10

ComedyAdventureScience Fiction

A bank teller discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and decides to become the hero of his own story. Now, in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way before it's too late.

starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Joe Keery

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Read from 113 comments (73 from Reddit, 32 from Metacritic, 8 from TMDB reviews) — 25 of them described how it moves.

➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Warm most of the way through. Around the middle it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Marked above the line: 6 that got a real laugh.

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gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
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grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit40 read

“The scene where she tells him to turn around and he's just like "okay!" And does a little spin with a stupid smile on his face had me rolling.”
fuzzy-maraca▲ 2,999about 50–60% inread it ↗
“That part actually made me emotional and I was NOT expecting it.”
Frank_Cap▲ 1,684about 75–100% inread it ↗
“The Chris Evans cameo had my theater howling.”
sandiskplayer34▲ 1,576about 75–100% inread it ↗
“First background thing that really made me lose it was when he was taking his new amounts of money out of the ATM and you see a player just crouch jumping and running into the wall in the background.”
itrainmonkeys▲ 1,312about 10–20% inread it ↗

Metacritic14 read

“The climactic duel unleashing iconic Marvel weapons—complete with Captain America's shield and a sudden, hilarious cameo by Chris Evans watching in shock—is pur”
famfacatabout 90–100% inread it ↗
“The first time he puts on the glasses and sees the whole HUD pop up — quests, loot, explosions everywhere — his reaction is so stupidly funny that I had to pause.”
ahmetcanerkaraabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“And the bank sequence looping over and over somehow never gets dull, because when Guy finally decides to stop the robbery instead of just lying down, it feels like a real shift.”
ahmetcanerkaraabout 15–33% inread it ↗
“finding out that Guy is basically a “love letter” coded into the game hit harder than I expected.”
ahmetcanerkaraabout 75–100% inread it ↗

TMDB6 read

“I have to say that I quite enjoyed the first third of this movie even though said woke brigade managed to throw in some woke unnecessary bullshit about “white privilege” quite early but from there it went rather downhill. The first third had plenty of over the top hilarious action in it. It was fun to watch. The parts where Free Guy learns to “level up” and kick ass where quite cool.”
Dark Jediabout 0–33% inread it ↗
“from there it went rather downhill.”
Dark Jediabout 33–100% inread it ↗
“the payoff at the end makes it worthwhile”
The Movie Mobabout 80–100% inread it ↗
“only here we get our hopes up in the first 20 minutes or so. We get setup nicely with truly funny video game references, top notch CGI and clever dialogue.”
5rJoudabout 0–15% inread it ↗

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