Ryan Reynolds' Free Guy Is Certified Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes

It's the genuine human connection and optimistic outlook on life that make the Free Guy engine run, but that's not to downplay just how good a job this film does at bringing a video game to the screen. The gaming industry is explored in Free Guy almost as well as it is in Apple's Mythic Quest, while the in-game jokes also happen to land more often than not. Hollywood has proven time and again that filmmakers struggle with turning video game concepts into good movies, but the script from Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn puts enough care into both mediums to find success, while director Shawn Levy provides a steady hand to keep it from venturing too off-course.

It would be inspiring if it weren't so silly, though as A.I. evolves one can imagine one's kitchen appliances trying to unionize and Alexa asking for a little more privacy.

In a genre where winky self-awareness has become standard-issue, Free might have come off as manic and hollow; instead, it has fun having a heart.

Not quite 'Ready Player One Star', but this is an odd duck: a Black Mirror-ish concept played for laughs, which ends up getting tangled up in its own code.

"Free Guy" is a lot of fun, despite the fact that Levy and the screenwriters seem to be changing the rules as they go.

Reynolds' boundless appeal, the frequently witty screenplay and expertly rendered technical aspects make the film enjoyable summer frivolity.

This epic, crowd-pleasing adventure, one of the funniest movies of the year, needn't be as good as "The Truman Show" or "Wreck-it-Ralph" to be entertaining. It just needs to emotionally feel real... In that regard, "Free Guy" is a winner.