The movie "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline is entertaining. It's full of humor, action, adventure and beautiful graphics. Overall, it was really well done; I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's basically about the main character, Wade Watts, who wants to win a competition, and the prize is to control a virtual reality called "Oasis."

People play games and solve riddles to gain three keys, where each key opens a gate after a puzzle is solved. And because it's virtual reality, no one knows the identities of the friends Wade gains until later on. He eventually finds out who his friends are, and they help each other during the competition, which Wade wins at the end. I personally thought it was an amazing movie although it was almost nothing like the book.

Let me explain.

The most obvious point is that all the challenges to get a key and open a gate were completely different. There's a puzzle to get a key and to open a gate, and this was the whole point of the challenge: to make it hard. I felt like this was overlooked while making the movie. I know it would have made it longer and understand why parts of it were cut out, but couldn't the challenges have been the same?

As an avid reader, I pay attention to details in the book. It's how I read. While enjoying the book, I pick up on the little things. So, when a movie/TV show adaptation is about to come out, I have high expectations. I want to be captured into the story, regardless of it being a book-to-movie adaptation. The movie shouldn't lose sight of what the main points are.

In the book, Wade is in high school. He doesn't enough money to travel throughout the world in Oasis. This is part of what helps Wade get the first key to winning the competition since it is located on his school campus. This is what hypes up the competition again. This is what starts Wade's journey. To not have this and jump right into the competition without seeing his struggle makes the plot feel empty.

In the movie, the only struggle Wade had was living with his aunt and her boyfriend. Where did the difficulty between passing school and winning the competition go? The book itself is about Wade's struggle to win because of his status in Oasis. Where is this shown in the movie besides the beginning? As someone who looks forward to character development, it disappointed me that the movie left this out.

Speaking of characters, I didn't like the idea of all the characters meeting at once. I noticed it went smoothly in the movie like puzzle pieces, but they were just thrown into it. Like someone said, "Oh man, we're missing some characters, why not just throw them in together?"

Since the story mostly takes place in virtual reality, the identities of characters can be different from the reality in the book. I just don't get the build-up of suspense like the book does in finding out about each character. In my opinion, they were just thrown in, and it didn't sit well for me when I noticed this. They are all different, and while reading, it took a while for me to realize how they each fit in as they showed up and joined Wade.

Compared to the book, there are no moments when we can realize that the characters mean something to Wade. I think the movie should have at least included some kind of moment between each person to show they mean something to the plot and to Wade. I didn't see it, and it was disappointing to not witness something important like this.

I do understand that the movie isn't supposed to be like the book, but it's also not supposed to leave out important details. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and would recommend it for those who like sci-fi, but I did have problems with it not meeting my expectations.