![]() And then finally there's General Hein, a megalomaniac fellow who's just trying to blow everything up using a a very large gun. With the help of Captain Grey Edwards and his crack band of soldiers, the Deep Eyes (Final Fantasy also has a knack for weird names-I mean, who came up with 'Premium Heart'?), Aki sets off to find, capture and use those eight Spirits. Cid (there's been a character named Cid in EVERY Final Fantasy production since 1991) have isolated eight Earthborn Spirits-not ghosts, but tangible lifeforms one of them is a plant, and don't ask me how the plant has a spirit-that, if combined, can wipe the Phantoms off the planet entirely. The remaining Earthlings struggle to survive. The plot is pretty standard-Earth is a wasteland most of Terra's population has been wiped out by the unexpected invasion of mostly-invisible aliens called Phantoms. And when you take that away, there isn't much left. Unfortunately, having been a fan of the Final Fantasy games since it first sprouted on the original Nintendo, I'm a little jaded towards visual grandeur. Pixar, Dreamworks, move over-the studio that cut its teeth on PlayStation games is in the house. Really simply, Square declared itself the current king of CGI animation. The backdops are jaw-dropping and the CGI actors look more real than some actual actors. Back when Square first started producing the movie in 1998, they were progressing at a rate of about one second of film PER DAY, because of the immense quality of the graphics, and none of that quality was lost as technology caught up and time passed. If you paid attention to the Final Fantasy games, to any of the hype surrounding the movie, or to the CGI industry in general, you already know the computer animation for this movie is far-and-away the best ever done. Having said that, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within could have been A Lot Better. ![]() ![]() Next to such atrocities as Tomb Raider and Street Fighter, it positively shines, and when compared to the complete gibberish known as the Super Mario Bros. For a movie based on a video game, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was very good.
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