I watched Final Fantasy on the big screen yestearday, and it was truly amazing! Probably I'll watch this movie several times again, in DVD.
Doctor Sid is perfect, he almost seem to be alive. I can't understand why they didn't put the same effort to animate other characters like that.
I also liked the camera movement, so realistic that you could almost feel sorry for the virtual cameraman when he had to follow Aki as she runs away from the monsters, jumping over crashed cars and walking through ruined buildings. In another part of the movie, when the deep blue squad is fighting the monsters, the camera shakes every single time that a big explosion can be heard, as if the poor cameraman is scared to death, in the middle of the battle.
Aki's hair is something wonderful. It is true that its animation did cost alone 9 million dollars?
The storyline, well... In my humble oppinion, it is somewhat weak, full of "mambo jambo", just to quote one of the characters. It has a great potential, the whole idea is realy interesting, but you know, it's just the way they tell the story that I didn't like.
That's why I like Oddworld games so much, and still play them, because they have a strong and well developed story.
Final Fantasy:the spirits within ---> 9.0/10.0 (only due to storytelling)
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