It's official. Nobody can top the first 30 minutes of Fury Road, not even the guy who made Fury Road.
I enjoyed this film, don't get me wrong. I liked the story. My main gripe is how different it looks on a technical level. Miller wanted to tell a story so insane and grandiose that he was forced to use a shit ton of CGI this time around. The fakery is covered by using an extremely frenetic editing style which is a bit distracting. It lacks the tangible and tactile approach of practical effects. Things are too clean, too shiny, too smooth. Fire just looks plain fake. Sometimes the basic physics seems a bit off. I honestly felt parts of the film looked like a hybrid of live action and animation. A few sequences just did not transition well from story board visualization to the final product.
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