Then find out who you are and ban you for life.” (Guy responds, “The order of those threats is really confusing.”) MolotovGirl’s real-life player Millie (also played by Comer), a coder whose work was stolen and used in Free City, realizes that she has achieved a programming Holy Grail by unwittingly creating an AI that has learned to think for itself. Thinking that a hacker has somehow taken control of a character not meant to be played, two of the developer’s programmers (Joe Keery and Utkarsh Ambudkar) have their game alter egos pull their guns on Guy and say, “We’re gonna kill you. Free Guy distinguishes itself by being attuned to gaming culture, as real-life YouTube and Twitch gamers, Hollywood celebrities, and the dearly departed Alex Trebek make cameo appearances to comment on Guy’s sudden burst of agency. Many others before have wondered what the inner lives of video game characters might be like - Wreck-It Ralph beat this movie to that particular spot. He becomes a hero among real-world gamers, so the evil gaming mogul behind Free City (Taika Waititi) determines to wipe him out before launching Free City 2.
Growing a consciousness, Guy starts leveling up in the game by foiling crimes and stealing players’ weapons. Guy takes the man’s sunglasses and sees what the players see: weapons statistics, inventories, and the locations of health packs. However, the avatar of a player calling herself MolotovGirl (Jodie Comer) inspires him to deviate from his programming and accidentally kill the next bank robber.
This has no impact on his cheerful demeanor, nor do the murders and explosions he sees on the street every time he goes out. A teller at a bank that is hit by armed robbers several times per day, Guy exists only to comply with the thieves’ commands and occasionally be shot and killed. Ryan Reynolds plays Guy, a non-player character - NPC in the argot of video-game enthusiasts - in a Grand Theft Auto-like shoot-em-up game called Free City. (I put the Oslo Opera House in my virtual city, something I’m inordinately proud of.) Free Guy is a movie that understands why people play both types of games and pits those two mindsets against each other, with brilliantly funny results. I totally understand the appeal of dropping into a fantasy world and shooting the place to hell, but I’ve found it more rewarding building a world to my own specifications. I did it out of sheer, soul-crushing boredom and quickly became addicted to the high of unlocking achievements and acquiring new items to use in the game. I started playing SimCity in the early days of the lockdown.
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