I wanted to like it but I found it weak.
The animation was of course spectacular that was a given. It was some of the best animation I've seen, with the most detailed character design, absolutely mind blowing.
It's the same issue I have with Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within. The film's animation was great but I got very little from the story and found the characters far two dimensional. The story may work if your playing it as a game not just watching it.
I can only imagine if I were a true die hard Final Fantasy fan, other than just someone vaguely familiar with the games, that I would like the movie just a little more, maybe being able to point out the trivia would get me excited.
As a movie, there is a lot of amazing action sequences, like this cool war sequence at the beginning of the film, The heroes of the film do this thing where they toss their swords at something then teleport themselves to the place the blade is, kick ass.
The only problem is, getting to these action packed parts means having to bare though a poorly produce plot that's easy enough to follow, but hard to get into. It was a series of characters that I could not get into.
Not even with the voice talents of Arron Paul and Sean Bean could I gather enough emotion to give a crap about anyone or anything in this movie. May have been a better movie if it was just one big action sequence.
http://cinemagardens.com
The animation was of course spectacular that was a given. It was some of the best animation I've seen, with the most detailed character design, absolutely mind blowing.
It's the same issue I have with Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within. The film's animation was great but I got very little from the story and found the characters far two dimensional. The story may work if your playing it as a game not just watching it.
I can only imagine if I were a true die hard Final Fantasy fan, other than just someone vaguely familiar with the games, that I would like the movie just a little more, maybe being able to point out the trivia would get me excited.
As a movie, there is a lot of amazing action sequences, like this cool war sequence at the beginning of the film, The heroes of the film do this thing where they toss their swords at something then teleport themselves to the place the blade is, kick ass.
The only problem is, getting to these action packed parts means having to bare though a poorly produce plot that's easy enough to follow, but hard to get into. It was a series of characters that I could not get into.
Not even with the voice talents of Arron Paul and Sean Bean could I gather enough emotion to give a crap about anyone or anything in this movie. May have been a better movie if it was just one big action sequence.
http://cinemagardens.com