10 CGI Fails That Totally Ruined Recent Movies
1. The Opening Car Chase - Kate
Netflix's recent action-thriller Kate certainly benefited from the steely presence of Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the titular assassin, though suffered immensely from both its laughably generic script and a VFX gaffe in the opening 10 minutes so shambolic it sent audience expectations barrelling into the Earth's core.
The film's instigating set-piece sees Kate get into her car for a high-speed car chase, which for reasons which will likely never be made clear is rendered entirely digitally.
Though the movie features some acceptable practical action later on, this opening sequence is a hideous, video game-y mess, bringing back bad memories of early 2000s CGI car chases from the likes of 2 Fast 2 Furious and Torque.
It immediately obliterates any hope that Kate might actually be a good film, perhaps lowering viewer expectations enough that they don't even really give the movie a chance or - gasp - straight-up turn it off.
It's altogether weirder when you consider that the director, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, is a VFX artist who received an Oscar nomination for his work on Snow White and the Huntsman. Wild.