An average movie

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this flick but since it was available on HBO, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, as usual with Adam Sandler, it turned out to be pretty lame, I'm afraid. I mean, to make a comedy about vintage gaming, after above all the success of 'Wreck-It Ralp', was in fact a decent idea but it just didn't work (it still managed to make $240m worldwide gross though). What went wrong here? First of all, the whole concept of having some hardcore gamers saving the world was just weak and not really funny whatsoever. I mean, even the game angle was poorly developed. Indeed, at least in 'Wreck-It Ralp' or even 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World', they kept mentioning tons of different games but, here, they mostly focused on 3 or 4 games that were so old that even me, who used to be a real hardcore gamer, didn't care for them. At least, they had Pac-Man but for some reasons he was used as a villain. Why on Earth? It didn't even make sense, even for the main character. At least, Peter Dinklage seemed to have some fun and his character was pretty neat but everything else seriously bored me. To conclude, it was another failure from Sandler and I don't think it is really worth a look. 

5/10