ELI5- why can movies make CGI human faces and movements that look 100% real and normal but video games always look fake even with large budgets?

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ELI5- why can movies make CGI human faces and movements that look 100% real and normal but video games always look fake even with large budgets?

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Video games could have pre-rendered cutscenes that look just as good as movies if the devs wanted to, but it would be jarring for the player experience to jump back and forth from in-engine rendered graphics to pre-rendered, so they keep with the best possible graphics that can be maintained while interactively moving through the environment.