The film's aesthetic would later become a major inspiration for the Mass Effect videogame trilogy.Parts of the soundtrack contain the melody of this song, particularly in the emotional parts, and they work well every time. The song "The Dream Within" performed by French singer Lara Fabian that plays over the credits is very beautiful.Elliot Goldenthal's soundtrack, while nowhere near as memorable as Nobuo Uematsu's own soundtracks to the games, is pretty good, and has enjoyed much better reception than the movie itself.The downbeat and ambiguous ending, much as it is one of the few things about the film that is close to the tone of the series, certainly didn't help out a film that was promoted as a blockbuster action movie.Most of the action scenes are either confusing or lack any kind of suspense and tension, while the non-action scenes wound up being tedious.It is unclear why this is supposed to be anyone's fault but their own. The ending tries to sell the idea that the Phantoms should be forgiven for wiping out almost all life on Earth because they blew up their own planet and were angry and confused.The fact that the Phantoms are ghosts is kind of given away by calling them "phantoms".General Hein has a severe case of "designated villain", since most of what he says is the most reasonable thing to conclude based on the known facts, but we're supposed to disagree with it because it's coming from a guy who has a sarcastic voice, slicked-back hair and dresses like a Nazi.Sid sneaking the infected Aki into the last Barrier City without bothering to tell anyone kind of undermines his status as a good guy, given she's basically a living nuclear bomb held in check by a system who functionality is based on guesswork and which could fail at any time.Even in the finale the best Sid can manage is saying that completing the waveform will do "something." Sid's "science" is actually based more on new-age religious beliefs than science. Neither has any evidence that what they're doing will actually accomplish anything, yet we're supposed to side with them and regard Hein's demand for, you know, proof, to be unreasonable. Classic "Hollywood scientist" characters in the form of Aki and especially Sid.There is very little exploration of who any of the characters except Hein are as people: Aki in particular is just.The only character who has a decent personal motivation for what he's doing is the villain.Speaking of voice acting, Aki sounds as flat as possible, possibly their way of marketing her as a "virtual actress".The rather abysmal voice acting doesn't help matters. The storyline suffers from several plotholes and continuity errors. ![]() While the games take place in their own separate universes, they still share a lot of things in common, such as taking place on an imaginary world instead of Earth. Despite the creator of Final Fantasy directing it, the film has barely anything to do with the Final Fantasy games (aside from a few oblique references to the previous games). ![]() While much of the CGI has been praised (to the point of being compared favorably to James Cameron’s Avatar), the character animations and designs have been criticized for falling into the uncanny valley, which threw off many audiences when the film came out in theaters.They must also deal with General Douglas Hein (James Woods), who seeks to use more violent means to eliminate the Phantoms by using a satellite cannon called the Zeus Cannon. Sid (Donald Sutherland), and a squad of soldiers called the "Deep Eyes", led by Gray Edwards (Alec Baldwin), as they attempt to find "eight spirits" that can be used to help humanity take back the planet. ![]() The movie is centered around the efforts of Dr. The remaining humans live inside barrier cities that are protected with energy shields that prevent the Phantoms from entering them. The year is 2065, and the Earth is infested by aliens known simply as " Phantoms". Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within premiered in Los Angeles on July 2, 2001, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 11. One of the most hyped elements of the film was Sakaguchi's vision of of the protagonist, Aki Ross, as a "digital actress" who could be "hired out" (ie licensed) to play roles in other films. The movie was promoted the first film to utilize photo-realistic CGI animation, and took 4 years to make with a render farm of 960 workstations. File:FF The Spirits Within.jpg Unleash A New Reality, Right.įinal Fantasy: The Spirits Within ( ファイナルファンタジー Fainaru Fantajī) is a 2001 CGI science-fantasy action-adventure film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy franchise, starring Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, and James Woods.
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