transcendent

Absolutely surreal seeing cards in the obligatory highly stylized credits sequence "paying homage" to moments in the film that literally did not last as long as the cards in said credits sequence. Thousands of digital art man hours and an incalculable amount of render farm co2 emissions absolutely squandered on an ment with worse pacing than Alan Smithee's Dune. 2 stars because they included the eel. We love the eel.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
In the early moments of the film, there's an ominous bird's eye view shot of a group of workers dumping buckets of petroleum into a pit. The black reservoir looks like a dark, festering wound on the surface of the earth, and for a moment it seems as if the crude oil is imbued with an innate and enormous malevolence, either cosmic, biblical or primeval. It quickly becomes clear that the fossil fuel has no inherent evil, it is merely…