Visually stunning but also a bit contrived and vacuous

Rating: 8/10 (30 July 2019)

I recently went back to rewatch this movie. As everyone has mentioned, including the Academy, the visuals are stunning. What an amazing technical tour de force. The sound and sound editing set benchmarks, too. That said, the dialog and long (long) interregnums between the visual spectaculars are flat out yawners. I'm also finding physics flaws in how certain scenes were handled. Given the precision of the CG team I'm shocked these were allowed to stand. Regardless this movie still enthralls. See it in high def on the largest screen possible.