![]() ![]() ![]() Rendered to perfection, the humanoid characters in Final Fantasy are of a complexity not seen at that point in cinema perhaps that was the lure of the film originally, but it doesn’t hold up by today’s standards. The character herself is particularly bland personality-wise, which is telling because as a digital creation she’s really rather brilliant. The central character is Aki Ross (voiced by Ming-Na), a digital creation purportedly designed as the world’s first “digital actress superstar” who would appear in a number of films in different roles, a vaguely appropriate approximate to the central character in the Al Pacino flick S1m0ne. Made over four years with a skyrocketing budget of some $130m+, Final Fantasy failed to recoup its production costs after audiences cottoned onto the fact that this movie’s premise is as stupid as it is beautiful. Aspirationally opaque, beset with weird philosophy and pseudo-science merged with religious subtext, Final Fantasy has the balls to be one of the most visually stunning films of all time (I still rank it as an Avatar-level visual experience) lumbered with one of the worst, most boring, most awful plots ever devised for a film of such a budget. I’m no idiot, but this film is either operating on a level I’m too thick to understand or its just plain bollocks. Look, in all honesty, I finished watching Final Fantasy and I could not for the life of me tell you what the was going on. ![]() Upon returning to her barrier city, Aki joins Sid and appears before the leadership council along with General Hein (James Woods), who is determined to use the powerful Zeus space cannon to destroy the Phantoms. Aki is searching for the sixth spirit in the ruins of New York City when she is cornered by Phantoms but is rescued by Gray Edwards (Alec Baldwin) and his squad “Deep Eyes”, consisting of Ryan Whittaker (Ving Rhames), Neil Fleming (Steve Buscemi) and Jane Proudfoot (Peri Gilpin). After being infected by a Phantom during one of her experiments, Aki Ross (Ming-Na) and her mentor, Doctor Sid (Donald Sutherland), uncover a means of defeating the Phantoms by gathering eight spirit signatures that, when joined, can negate the Phantoms. The surviving humans live in “barrier cities”, areas protected by an energy shield that prevents Phantoms from entering, and are engaged in an ongoing struggle to free the planet. By physical contact Phantoms consume the Gaia spirit of living beings, killing them instantly, though a minor contact may only result in an infection. Plot synopsis courtesy Wikipedia: In 2065, Earth is infested by alien life forms known as Phantoms. Sadly, while the visuals were indeed superlative, the story, character and complexity of combining Western aesthetics with a throghouly Eastern theological underpinning blows a hole in this film as a work of fiction to large you could drive an 8-bit Pac Man through. Synopsis: A scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms.Ī mind blowing assault on the senses (for mostly the wrong reasons), Final Fantasy came to the big screen in 2001 with the perception of (finally) photo-realistic CG-rendered human beings that were as close to the real thing as we’re ever likely to get. Principal Cast : Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Donald Sutherland, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin. ![]()
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