This week we review the latest movie starring Ryan Reyolnds in Free Guy. Is this the best video game of all time? Find out.

Free Guy is a 2021 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, and a story by Lieberman. The film stars Ryan Reynolds (who also produced) as a bank teller who discovers he is actually a non-player character in an open-world video game and decides to become the hero of the story and save his friends from deletion by the game's creator (Taika Waititi). Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, and Utkarsh Ambudkar also star.

Following a year-long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Free Guy was theatrically released in the United States on August 13, 2021, in RealD 3D, IMAX and Dolby Cinema by 20th Century Studios. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the clever concept and compared it favorably as a combination of Ready Player One, The Truman Show, The Matrix, and Grand Theft Auto.

Cameo Breakdown:

The film features cameo appearances from gamers and streamers Jacksepticeye, Ninja, Pokimane, DanTDM, and LazarBeam. Actor Chris Evans, Good Morning America host Lara Spencer and, posthumously, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek make cameo appearances as themselves. Also, Channing Tatum in a cameo appearance as Revenjamin Buttons, the in-game avatar of Keith. Voice cameos in the film feature Tina Fey, as Keith's vacuuming mom; Hugh Jackman, as a masked avatar in an alley; Dwayne Johnson, as a bank robber; and John Krasinski as a silhouetted gamer.

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