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I will end up watching this movie over Leonardo di Caprio in "Titanic" and that is probably based mostly on runtime. This movie asks the burning question, "What if the world ended, but nobody came to see it?".

There are a lot of funny moments in this social comedy-drama disaster film. They poke fun at people being overtly positive and overtly negative, they make fun of the far left and the far right. It is a show with balance in the humor. The movie starts out somewhat serious in nature but then the cheese starts to slide off the cracker.

The majority of the film focuses on the US and I would like to have seen some humor in other nations around the globe. In all reality, the US is not the only nation on the planet, and I would have shown other leaders just as powerless or useless to help.

The movie leans back into a serious drama near the end, then we get a last laugh in the end credits. Although I didn't need or want to see old naked people. Over all Leonardo di Caprio has done two epic disaster movies in his career, Don't Look Up is much better than his Titanic!

There are tons of movies out there, that philosophically asks, several questions that only someone existing outside our universe could answer. Such as; How much control do you really have over yourself?

Should we blindly accept reality?

If something isn't real, does it mean it is necessarily false or fictional?

Is everything that happens predetermined?

Is there free will?

Movies have explored this notion of layered universes inside a virtual computer universe, with titles such as; Tron (1982), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), and The Matrix (1999). Not all of them tackle the topic using a computer as the format, like in Stranger Than Fiction (2006). So what is different about "Free Guy"? Not much, it is another discovery character movie, where a common person finds out they are a work of fiction.

Ryan Reynolds is a not just a good name, to be in such a movie, he is also a fine character actor. The supporting cast worked well with him, big effects budget always adds flavor but don't carry the show. I only hope they know one is enough. For example, I enjoyed the Matrix, but they don't seem to know when to stop beating the dead horse.

Another reason for the film's success is the venue of today's online games. We spent a lot of time playing them in lock down. The format was done before but never on this scale. The "Epic NPC Man" web series can be viewed for free since 2016, and continues to entertain.

Free Guy is yet another VR movie, just well performed. As for all those thought provoking questions none will be answered. We are here to enjoy a good movie. In the end, we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Although I have watched the anime and read the book, I am not here to compare any of them.

The acting was solid and the characters were lovable. The effects and action was awesome. So the question is, why did NetFlix decide to cancel the show? The answer is meta data. They run all their series based on how long they "survive" on the top ten list. Apparently it doesn't matter who their competition was upon release. There was only two stinker episodes. Ten was the worst and followed by six. From what I can tell you, the sex scene in #6 was completely unnecessary and there wasn't any action. The prior episodes all came out of the gate strong and six fell flat. It felt like they forced the sex scene in the episode because the rest was a snooze. The last 15 to 20 minutes of the last episode throws everything for a loop and then the writers just ended it. They literally wrote the closure on almost all the open and interesting subplots. Kind of left me wondering if they knew the series was going to be just 10 episodes.

I give this a solid 8 and while it did not end the same as the original, I still say, it didn't deserve to be cancelled for bad writers or meta data. NetFlix computers don't predict people thinking, "That looks interesting, I will watch later when I have the time.". Personally I was too busy and I think I watched the Ryan Reynolds movie that came out around the same time. I still haven't watch season 2 of The Witcher yet. Are they really going to cancel shows based on how fast we view them?

Doesn't matter about live action or anime, this could have been it's own show.