If you’ve ever played The Sims, you fully understand the sadistic appeal of making imaginary video game characters do whatever you, their cruel and omnipotent overlord, want them to do.
But what if those faceless characters began to resent their state of servitude? Ryan Reynolds plays exactly that character in Free Guy, his action-comedy that takes place in a violent and chaotic video game world.
Also starring Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, and Lil Rel Howery, the movie looks to be a freewheeling and high-adrenaline spoof of what happens when a Non Player Character realises the mundane purpose of their life and decides to take action. Free Guy is now screening in Australian cinemas. The ones which aren’t closed due to lockdown, of course, which is sadly few of them.
If the trailer above looks like your kind of thing, watch this space for more info about the film’s release. Maybe go a lil easier on your video game NPCs until then too. They put up with a lot, you know.
