It’s about time they made a decent videogame-movie.Let’s see we’ve had Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and it’s horrid freakin’ sequel. And who could forget Super Mario Bros.? (If you have, count yourself lucky.) Then of course, we had this summer’s stinker, Tomb Raider.
But finally... Final Fantasy. Sure, the plot’s got nothing to do with the video game whatsoever, but ya know... maybe that’s why it succeeds. Okay, so I’ll admit that the acting is mediocre and the plot’s as thin as a wafer.But, MAN does it LOOK GREAT!
onestly, we all know deep down inside of us that the only reason that we’re going to see this movie is for the outstanding visuals in it. This movie has taken computer animation to a realm that I never thought it’d reach. But,
what do I know? In the first scene we get a closeup of the heroine’s eye and.. man... the animators weren’t shy. They were confident in their work and they SHOW OFF in this movie. Now let’s get on to the... ahem... story, if you will.
The story involves a funky new age theory that the earth contains something called a Gaia. What this is... is a spirit. This dude, Dr Sid, states that every living thing -- humans, animals, plants -- all have a ’’spirit.’’ Well guess where that comes into play? YOU GUESSED IT! These spirits are humanity’s only hope against soul-stealing transparent aliens! So our heroine, Aki, is on a mission to recover the eight spirits (why 8? Good question). So she... along with a band of misfit soldiers, commanded by Aki’s ex-beau, Grey (who looks strangely like Ben Affleck)... goes out in
search for the sacred spirits. And along the way, of course, they face a bunch of really cool lookin’ but really bad, bad alien ’’phantoms, ’’ who’re able to steal the life from a human, just by coming in contact with them.
Now, this animation is breathtaking. It’s so life-like and at the same time.It’s something else completely. Never once do you think that these characters. Grey, Aki. are real humans. Not once. But you accept that they are LIVING BEINGS. To me, they almost seemed like some sort of living
action figures. Their skin looked so lifelike but at the same time it looked so plastic and fake. But don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a complaint at all. In fact, in my opinion, it only added to the overall effect of the movie. And the world that these people live in. This could only be accomplished in the world of a computer. There’s no possible way to film any of these locations in real life. It’s just impossible. There are scenes that show our characters in anti-gravity, and while this has been done before, it’s
never been done in such a way that we see the INDIVIDUAL HAIRS on the person’s head FLOATING! It’s freakin’ amazing, that’s all there is to it.
Now, the bottom line: If you walk into this movie expecting great acting, a great story and great characters, then you’re in for a huge disappointment. BUT, if you go into this movie expecting a lot of really really COOL looking
stuff and lots of action and things BLOWING UP, then you’ll enjoy yourself.