Ghostbusters Reviews: 10 Reactions You Need To Know
6. Paul Feig's Direction Is Rather Messy
Paul Feig isn't the most inventive director in terms of visual stylings, and it's not like Bridesmaids and Spy were particularly pleasing to the eye (to be fair, they weren't really expected or supposed to be, though).
According to a large portion of the recent reviews, however, Ghostbusters is by far his messiest film to date. At least, in terms of the way the film is actually put together, things are a little iffy: there's a noticeable sloppiness and crudity to the editing which makes the film occasionally flat or ugly to look at.
In his review for MovieWeb, Alan Orange called the film "messy," and it's a word that keeps creeping up in number of reviews for Ghostbusters.
Feig hasn't helmed a project so reliant on CGI, either, and the critics have admitted that it shows and has impacted the final product somewhat. Matt Singer of ScreenCrush had this to say on the use of CGI in the last act:
"The humor of the previous 90 minutes gets lost amidst a lot of messy CGI and slo-mo ghost combat."
A point echoed by The Guardian's Nigel M. Smith, who writes:
"Feig falls down a little in the final Times Square spectacular. This is his first effects-laden enterprise and he sometime ladles on the CGI a little thick."
All in all, then, critics have noticed a slapdash element to the production. Not enough to spoil the film outright, of course, but still a bit of a let-down.