6 Major Concerns From Ready Player One Trailer

While the movie was always going to be heavily spectacle-driven, it seems impossible for an audience to care about the characters when visuals are receiving the most attention. Not only that, but since we're dealing with two different realities (the Oasis and a dystopian future), RPO may face the same problem as Assassin's Creed's Animus and jarring real-world settings. The Animus (or Oasis in this case) represents the most interesting setting and set of locations, but the story keeps going back to the real world, leading to a drop in intrigue and a drag in the plot's pacing.

Not only that, but since much of the movie involves characters playing as avatars, audiences may end up forgetting the real people controlling these created personalities. Besides, it seems that while there will be plenty of characters in the Oasis, there are only a handful of people in the real-world that prove to be relevant: Tye Sheridan's Wade, Olivia Cooke's Samantha, Ben Mendelsohn's Nolan and Mark Rylance's Halliday.

Ready Player One may prove to have an adequately-balanced runtime between both realities, but real-world characters are in danger of being forgotten whenever we re-enter the Oasis.