The Flash Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs
Downs...
4. The HORRIBLE CGI
Though the majority of the DCEU's movies have touted their fair share of ropey VFX, The Flash takes things to a whole new level of visual garishness.
Despite rocking an eye-watering $220 million budget, this is genuinely one of the ugliest blockbusters - superhero movie or otherwise - released in recent years.
Almost the entire movie has a revoltingly plastic-like aesthetic any time there's a major CGI element - which, being The Flash, is basically every single scene.
Right from the opening sequence, where Barry (Ezra Miller) rescues a bunch of uncanny valley CGI babies from a crumbling hospital skyscraper, this is a downright hideous film to look at.
It only gets worse later, with the distractingly unconvincing deepfake effects used to have both versions of Barry on-screen at the same time, and most of the significant action taking place in bland, video game-y digital battlegrounds.
As conceptually ambitious as this movie might be, that's rather betrayed by how grossly offputting it is on a visual level.