12 Reasons Star Wars: The Force Awakens Is A Disappointment

6. Supreme Leader Snoke's CGI Is...Not Great

Much was made pre-release of Abrams' insistence upon using practical visual effects over computer-generated ones, except where this simply wasn't possible. As such, the film has very few CGI-animated creatures, and though most of them are superbly handled, there's one who sticks out like a sore thumb: Supreme Leader Snoke, as performance-captured by Andy Serkis. His gigantic hologram creature is easily the most blatantly CGI aspect of the film, his face in particular feeling like it would fit in quite well with George Lucas' prequels. It doesn't mesh particularly well with everything around him, which is extra disappointing considering that Serkis completely inhabits the role and deserves a more imaginative and convincing representation on screen. Given that Snoke is presumably the Big Bad of the new trilogy of movies, Disney really need to get to work on making him look less obviously fake for future films, or we're gonna have a problem here.