The Cutting Edge in Cinema Technology!

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2012)

I will not review the story because if you are interested you already know it. With one word the film is awesome!
What is new are 3 things: 1. 3D 2. High Frame Rate - 48 frames per second shooting and projection. 3. Shot on video with the Red camera.
The 3D is awesome! I think it add to the movie a lot.
The 48 Frames per second is awesome - no longer you will see annoying flicker and jitter on a moving shots! I still would like to see even faster frame rates as the ideal is 72, which creates the ultimate immersive experience.
My problem is video look (in some scenes)of the film that is sometime very pronounced - especially on the bright scenes. People call this too realistic, I call this to synthetic, plastic and divorced of reality look. It is so because it reminds them of the bad video they shot with their own VHS tape. Too real they say. I say not even close to reality... I fully blame for this the inability of the Red camera to reproduce highlights properly, and its miserable performance with skin tones. Also, because of the video compression and low qantalizalion the tonal gradation has suffered - especially in the more natural scenes. The scenes where they have done heavy, stylized color correction are better.
In conclusion I think it would have been better to shoot on 65mm film for the better look. On the other hand shooting 3D at 48 frames per second with two bulky film cameras might have been impossible, so the compromise of shooting on video. Maybe they had to use a better camera than Red...
Anyway the best way to see it is in HFR, 3D, IMAX.