A younger man, of passable resemblance to our elder lead, might step in as age-appropriate substitute. Or else our hero may simply go about his business in the past unaltered: that’s suspension of disbelief for you. In any case, if the flashback is a problem, Hollywood has long had many ways to solve it. That these CGI-abetted flashback faces look ghastly and completely unconvincing doesn’t matter in the slightest to the filmmakers making eager use of them. If it’s verisimilitude you want, it seems to me, what’s worked for a century is surely better than a novelty, still half-baked.

Source: National Post October 20, 2016 21:45 UTC