20 Recent CGI Movie Moments You Can't Unsee

18. The PS3 Car Chase - Havoc

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Havoc is the new action film from The Raid director Gareth Evans, and so naturally invited expectations that it'd be another gut-wrenchingly visceral thriller with a sure emphasis on practical action sequences achieved largely in-camera.

But the movie instead kicks off with a head-scratcher of a car chase that appears to be almost entirely CGI, save for the actors who've clearly been green-screened into what looks like a middling Unreal Engine game demo from about 15 years ago.

The cars don't move in a way that's at all believable, ensuring Havoc kicks off looking like a not-particularly-good video game, and considering the generally disappointing quality of the movie overall, it doesn't get a whole lot better from there.

First impressions are everything, and this goopy, game-y opening car chase made it immediately clear that Evans wasn't serving up another Raid-tier banger. 

Instantly making the audience question the integrity of your action when your entire brand is action really isn't the way to go.

 
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