10 Most Pointless CGI Movie Shots Ever

8. Johnny Depp's Face - Public Enemies

Michael Mann's Public Enemies largely focuses on good old-fashioned practical set-pieces, so Mann's decision to include one especially noticeable CGI stunt proves all the more jarring as a result.

During the focal bank robbery sequence, John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) is seen vaulting over a bank desk, and there's no two ways about it - it looks totally badass.

Or it would, if not for the fact that Depp's face is clearly just a crude digital mask pasted over that of a stuntman.

Apparently, the notoriously perfectionist Mann had a very specific idea of how the shot should look, and when Depp couldn't quite get it right, he brought in a stunt double to execute it with the correct physicality, while fixing the face in post.

The irony, of course, is that the entire shot is ruined by the distracting CGI, which resembles Depp only as though he were rendered in the cut-scene of a mid-budget PS1 game.

Given that the shot could've easily been captured from behind the stuntman and likely still looked just as cool, it's an utterly baffling act of stubbornness on Mann's part.