A vaccine with 100% adoption? Now that's fantasy. Impressions: The animation is certainly spectacular, there's no denying that. Can't say that I love the constant CGI drifting that it does, and I think some of the lines of action got muddled where going for more of a one-shot approach would've made it a lot […]
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