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Gaming PlayStation Xbox Nintendo. Movies TV Comics. Star Wars Marvel. Filed under: Opinion Movies Entertainment. Ready Player One is a fine movie spoiled by a terrible final line New, 43 comments. Ad — content continues below. For readers who have enjoyed the journey thus far, or remember games like Tempest and can mostly recall all the quotes from Monty Python , it is harmlessly sweet nostalgia.
For many others, it reads as downright cloying and is especially apt for the fair criticism that notes the ending robs Artemis of her agency , turning her into little more than a trophy to be won. For in the film, it is Samantha, not Wade, who goes behind enemy lines at IOI, and unlike Wade, it is not part of some masterful plan, but a nightmare that is bolstered by her backstory—a backstory that is nonexistent in the book. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!
Kira, Halliday's love and Morrow's bride, is "the key" to the Ready Player One story in at least two ways. She's the resolution of the second challenge, when the player in this case Art3mis rescues her from a sea of ballroom zombies by asking her to dance, but she's also the source of another more symbolic victory for Parzival. Halliday, throughout life after his time dating Kira, regrets never having taken "the leap," meaning never having been bold enough to set aside his reservations about reality and just go for it.
So, he builds "the leap" into the game, making players fend off zombies over a chasm to win Kira's hand, then he uses his failure with her to teach the winner — Parzival — a lesson. In emphasizing the importance of reality, Halliday impresses upon Parzival the need to take his own leap. So, even after he meets Morrow — one of his heroes — and before he fully celebrates winning the challenge and the OASIS, Wade reaches out to Samantha in the real world and they kiss, not as avatars, but as people.
Parzival, having studied Halliday for most of his life, takes the OASIS creator's lessons to heart basically immediately. He kisses the girl he loves, he opts to run the OASIS with his friends rather than going it alone, and then Wade explains the changes the High Five make almost immediately.
First, they bring Morrow back for reasons already clearly explained, then they turn their attention to IOI and the sinister Sorrento. For much of the film, Sorrento was only attempting to take over the OASIS in the interest of greed, but when he bombed the stacks in Columbus and killed Wade's aunt, among others, he became a full-blown criminal.
That move, plus the decree that the OASIS would be closed two days a week to let players spend more time in reality, heralds a new future for the OASIS and the world, one less dependent upon gaming for profit and more dependent on real human experience.
Ready Player One's Ending Explained. The ultimate video game showdown. A magic spell. The value of an extra life. The original Easter egg. One last test. The true Easter egg. A friendship repaired. Taking the leap. Thanks to Halliday, Wade learns that reality is "the only place where you can find true happiness" It pretty much tells us that Wade now thinks virtual reality is all a sham. If Wade really thinks that now, we wish he had learned that lesson a little sooner.
Like, maybe before he prompted Nolan Sorrento to detonate a bomb— a real-life bomb —that killed dozens of people— real people —in Wade's hometown, just to save the integrity of a virtual reality video game that Wade couldn't care less about anymore. It's like killing your family to save your favorite toy from being thrown away, and then throwing the toy away yourself when something better comes along. It's not just immature and dangerous.
It's borderline sociopathic, suggesting that Wade somehow thinks life is a game and he's in control.
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