Free Guy 🎥 2021 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Free City is an online game developed by Soonami Studios. Its “players”—people in real life—wear sunglasses and spend their time fighting each other and causing mayhem. The non-player characters accept the chaos while living out their scripted lives, unaware that the world they live in is a video game. These NPCs include Guy, who works as a clerk in Free City’s bank with his best friend, security guard Buddy. Unemployed software developer Millie Rusk plays Free City to find proof that Soonami stole the source code from the concept game she developed, Life Itself, which included novel artificial intelligence techniques for its NPCs.

Her friend and co-developer Walter “Keys” McKey is reluctant to help, as he now works in technical support at Soonami. Millie’s avatar “MolotovGirl” catches Guy’s attention by singing his favorite song, “Fantasy”. Guy then begins to deviate from his programming, accidentally shooting a player robbing the bank, and leaving with the player’s sunglasses. Believing Guy to be a hacker disguised as an NPC, Keys and his coworker Mouser unsuccessfully try to ban him from the game. Accessing the players’ view of the game, Guy visits new areas and meets Millie at vlogger Revenjamin Buttons’ stash house, where they attempt to steal evidence leading to her source code.

Believing Guy to be a novice player, she advises him to level up. Guy rapidly progresses through the game by completing missions benevolently, standing out from other players and becoming a worldwide sensation known as “Blue Shirt Guy”. As Keys realizes that Guy truly is an NPC, other NPCs that Guy interacts with also begin to develop self-awareness. However, Free City 2 is due to release in 48 hours and will replace Free City, terminating all of its NPCs. Millie tells Guy the truth about his existence, but he becomes distraught and breaks off contact.

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