Complaints about the Furiosa CGI began when the debut trailer dropped, but what about the CGI in the Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga movie? The original film in the franchise, Mad Max: Fury Road, is known for using mainly practical effects for its action scenes, though many of them were enhanced with the use of CGI. Either way, the amount of CGI in this Furiosa prequel is quite high. Now critics and fans who have seen and reviewed the movie have made their case known. Here’s whether the Furiosa CGI is good or bad, or perhaps way too much.
Do critics and fans think the Furiosa CGI is good or bad?
In general, critics and fans believe that the Furiosa CGI is overdone and in some cases poor. However, that’s just a broad consensus and personal opinions on the quality of the movie’s CGI fluctuate quite a bit.
Some critics think that the CGI hurts the Mad Max prequel more than it helps. Doug Jamieson of The Jam Report states on Twitter that “the CGI is often ghastly” while Peter Gray of The AU Review thinks that the “overt CGI may irk some.” Writing for Forbes, Scott Phillips writes that the “CGI dominates the action with its jerky, weightless mayhem” in the first hour of the film.
Fans are somewhat mixed on the film’s quality of CGI. Scanning the user reviews for the movie on IMDB, one writes that “many CGI shots look fake” while another says there are “loads of bad CGI.” On the other hand, one user the CGI is “top-notch” and that a movie like this needs a lot of it to work. Another comments that the CGI, cinematography, and music are “sick.”
Despite the controversy over the movie’s CGI, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga still stands at a decent 80 on Metacritic, and at the time of writing, the IMDB user score is around the same at 8.1 out of 10.
