10 Recent Movies That Grossly Overestimated What Their CGI Could Do
4. Gods Of Egypt
It's fair to say there are probably only a handful of shots in Alex Proyas' 2016 fantasy bomb that didn't involve some kind of CGI, and it's hilariously clear that the film's $140 million budget wasn't nearly enough to support Proyas' loony, ambitious ideas.
Gods of Egypt basically pulls a Green Lantern by filling almost every single shot with an abundance of VFX, yet almost none of it is actually even half-way convincing.
Sure, this film is fantasy nonsense so nobody's expecting photo-realism, but the green screen is distractingly apparent throughout, there's no weightiness to any of the action, and the fights too often divulge into a blurry, grotesquely incomprehensible mess.
On one hand the awful effects contribute to the film's kitschy status as a new so-bad-it's-good classic, but for all of its serious intent as a universe-building blockbuster, the effects are an abject failure.
Clearly the film would've benefited from scaling-back its ideas somewhat, therefore spreading the budget a little more thickly across the remaining CGI elements.