Film Review – Free Guy

Shawn Levy hasn’t made a movie in a long time, last seen on screens with 2014’s “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.” A vanilla filmmaker with a penchant for saccharine sentiment and editorial permissiveness, Levy tries his best to make “Free Guy” resemble everything else in his career, but he’s not able to completely extinguish the spirit of this amusing picture, which takes audiences into the battle zone of an open world video game, with one fringe participant learning to become a very big deal in the name of love. “Free Guy” has issues with overlength and formula, but it has Ryan Reynolds in the lead role, and his ability to play the wackiness and sincerity of the screenplay (credited to Matt Liberman and Zak Penn) helps to give the feature a kind of magic as it examines video game culture and business ethics, and often searches for opportunities to stage chaotic comedy set pieces. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com