Let's get this right of the bat - the CGI animation is awful in this. It looks bad, it moves bad, it syncs to the dialogue bad. And the dialogue really isn't great either, there's some really clunky exposition early on, and some of the back and forths just really don't make sense. The occasional attempts at humor fall flat, and it feels very much like it's written by video game writers, with a lot of the dialogue sounding fine if this was the occasional in between battle banter, but back to back to back it just feels extra clunky.
The pros are occasionally impressive. The 2D animation flashbacks are really well done stylistically, and the movement is pretty good. The dialogue versions of PTSD really don't work at all, with the character who lost his daughter really not sounding that sad or crazy, just pretty flat, but the visual representations of his hallucinations are impressive.
But every time the movie started to impress me, it switched back to the 3D style that looks worse than student projects I've seen. I'm not sure if the dialogue is really worse during these scenes than the flashbacks or if I'm just so turned away by what I'm seeing that it feels worse, but I can tell you several of the worst clichés occur during these CGI scenes.
The worst part is that the 3D scenes add *nothing*. Adding about 5 minutes of dialogue to the flashbacks and making them more chronological would've produced something cohesive and probably in the 7/10 range. As is, though, most of the attempts to create anything "scary" or impactful are done in awful CGI, which just takes so much away from the viewing experience that I did not have any sort of a pleasant time.
The pros are occasionally impressive. The 2D animation flashbacks are really well done stylistically, and the movement is pretty good. The dialogue versions of PTSD really don't work at all, with the character who lost his daughter really not sounding that sad or crazy, just pretty flat, but the visual representations of his hallucinations are impressive.
But every time the movie started to impress me, it switched back to the 3D style that looks worse than student projects I've seen. I'm not sure if the dialogue is really worse during these scenes than the flashbacks or if I'm just so turned away by what I'm seeing that it feels worse, but I can tell you several of the worst clichés occur during these CGI scenes.
The worst part is that the 3D scenes add *nothing*. Adding about 5 minutes of dialogue to the flashbacks and making them more chronological would've produced something cohesive and probably in the 7/10 range. As is, though, most of the attempts to create anything "scary" or impactful are done in awful CGI, which just takes so much away from the viewing experience that I did not have any sort of a pleasant time.