![]() The best scene in the movie is when one of the characters waits in an almost meditative trance during the fight scene until he cries out "form of a gundam" in Japanese and awesomeness ensues. I have no doubt that this film will receive a lot of flak for its reliance on pop culture artifacts. ![]() Pretty much every scene in Sorrento's soulless corporate HQ is a riot because of the seriousness with which they take their involvement in this silly online world, made even more ridiculous by the motions they all make in their VR suits as they react to unseen perils like well-dressed mimes. In fact, some of the best scenes revolve around the absurd mix of online and real existence. That's a very hard balance to pull off and this movie doesn't even raise a sweat. I was absolutely amazed at how seamlessly the film merged animation with reality (I'd say only perhaps 1/3 of the film takes place in the "real" world) and gave the obviously digital environments emotional and kinetic weight. I'm still not completely sure how it pulled it off. It seamlessly combines reality and animation into one big, exciting adventure. But who knew he had this left in him? This film is an absolute blast. His attempts at grand action spectacle (the underrated Tintin aside) were underwhelming. For the last decade or so his focus has been on more realistic period dramas and character pieces. I honestly didn't think that Spielberg had another crowd-pleasing actioner left in him.
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