She’s trying to prove the game is based on artificial intelligence software she developed with her old business partner Keys (Joe Keery), who now works on Free City for a tyrannical boss (Taika Waititi). Meanwhile, also in the real world, we discover that Millie isn’t just playing Free City for fun. A self-proclaimed “good person,” he decides to earn Millie’s respect by protecting other NPCs, a strategy that quickly goes viral in the real world, where everyone assumes he’s an actual human player refusing to play by the rules. At first, Guy assumes he’s still living in the real world, and that life is a gamified existence in which missions like robbing banks earn you money and reputation. Reynolds plays Guy, a non-player character (NPC) who works at a bank that gets robbed multiple times per day by actual players, who are distinguished from the NPCs by the sunglasses they wear at all times.īut when Guy falls in love with a player, Millie (Jodie Comer), and steals a pair of sunglasses, he discovers the truth about his world. Disneyįree Guy largely takes place inside Free City, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG for short) that’s basically a way more popular Grand Theft Auto Online. Putting on sunglasses reveals the truth about his world to Guy, a hapless video game NPC.
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This is a movie overflowing with great comedic actors - Jodie Comer! Taika Waititi! Lil Rel Howery! Channing Tatum (in a dance-heavy cameo)! - and impressive CGI set pieces. That’s not to discredit the rest of Free Guy’s impressively stacked cast or the surplus of visual wizardry that brings it all together. ( Director Shawn Levy originally rejected the script before Reynolds pitched it to him directly.) Of course, Free Guy is more than just its star, but whether the movie would exist without him is up for debate. Even out of his Deadpool suit, Reynolds is still the same charming, bankable white guy who knows his way around a dirty joke.
So while critics and fans may celebrate Free Guy as one of the only original stories to come out of a major studio in 2021, it’s not like Disney is taking a huge risk by releasing it. Even when he’s not starring in recognizable IP like Marvel and Pokémon, fans know exactly what they’re getting from one of the actor’s big-screen vehicles: reliable action-comedy with an adjustable edge. Ryan Reynolds is a franchise unto himself.
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