Herge's Tintin meets Uncharted.

Rating: 7/10 (17 February 2020)

There's an effortless simplicity of story and exposition and in the telling that is sometimes the films greatest strength; the pulp classic adventure throwback stylings, but that can also be its greatest weaknesses, causing the thrust, inbetween the inventive action, to be turgid to the point of boredom.
Jamie Bell turns in, incredulously, one of his best performances, the visuals, flow of direction, creativity of shots, and use of photorealistic locations and performances with cartoon flourishes and physics is a stroke of genius. Its uniqueness makes it such a wonderful film just to look at.
My fondness for this film has grown since I first saw it in th cinema. It's ability to transform and adapt almost verbatim several of the Tintin stories while making it seem a modern classic and infusing it with tremendous performances galvanisedd it for me as a real under appreciated gem.
Probably the best looking, best facially mocapped non photorealistic entirely CGI movie ever. The lighting and the directing and, in this case, the 3D are all reference material quality. A properly enjoyable cinematic experience and I wish there were more of these as planned to take me to some of the other worlds in Tintin's stories.
I would fully appreciate seeing what a sequel could bring to the table in 20XX.