One Battle After Another Filmed in VistaVision

[Frank Cox]

For an "action thriller" there sure isn't much action. This movie takes ages to get off the ground.

I suspect everyone involved has one eye on the Oscars and that makes it a lot more pretentious and far less engaging than it could have been.

[Allan Young]

"This large negative is then compressed to the standard 35 mm frame for release." Huh?

The primary purpose of VistaVision was to deal with the fact that when Eastmancolor was first introduced, the negative stock had higher grain than release stock. By optically reducing the larger negative area to standard 35 mm, they got better looking release prints with less grain. Once finer-grained color stock was introduced in the early '60s, it made VistaVision obsolete.