While the visual spectacle is widely praised, critics from sites like Rotten Tomatoes and The Guardian have noted that the human characters often feel secondary to the architecture.
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: The film focuses on the grueling minute-by-minute effort to save the building's structure and its most sacred relics, including the Crown of Thorns. The Human Element: Service vs. Script While the visual spectacle is widely praised, critics
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: Sets that allow the camera to follow firefighters into 50cm-wide spiral stairs and through 1,220°C heat.