Wulfa_Jones
September 28th, 2005, 02:32 PM
Having got sick of waiting for this film to be release I decided to download it.
What follows is a brief review, with no real spoilers...
Well, much like the game the plot is pretty nonsensical but also quite sparse. I won’t go into detail but suffice to say it follows a similar theme as the game but is set around 2 years after. However, if you have never played the game at all or beyond disk 1 then the plot will make even less sense.
That said there is still enjoyment to be had from the film even if you weren’t a hard core FFVII player. Visually it is stunning, not as good as FF: The Spirits Within, but still pretty amazing. The version I watched had pretty good subtitles, but there really isn’t vast quantities of dialogue, there are however many great fight scenes.
Fight scenes make up at least 3/5s of the film if not slightly more and they are spectacular! The only negative point is that they largely, always involve Cloud Vs the bad guys and not many of the other characters get to see much action.
The score is a little odd, sometimes it works really well other times pieces of music seem out of place with what is happening on screen and other times it’s just plain bad.
It would have been nice to have seen more use of materia and summon monsters, all of which feature but not to a great extent.
So over all, highly enjoyable for me as a Final Fantasy VII freak and I reckon that it would be of interest to anime fans as well.
My main thought after watching this film was; what if Sony Pictures hadn’t screwed up The Spirits Within and used the budget to make it more like this film (i.e. sticking to a Final Fantasy style world – the combination of technology, magic and swords) and not gone down the stupid route that they did, how cool that film could have been!
Also, I don't know if anyone else has seen it or has heard why they wear this, but all the lead characters in the film have a red ribbon tied around their right arm. Any one know why?
What follows is a brief review, with no real spoilers...
Well, much like the game the plot is pretty nonsensical but also quite sparse. I won’t go into detail but suffice to say it follows a similar theme as the game but is set around 2 years after. However, if you have never played the game at all or beyond disk 1 then the plot will make even less sense.
That said there is still enjoyment to be had from the film even if you weren’t a hard core FFVII player. Visually it is stunning, not as good as FF: The Spirits Within, but still pretty amazing. The version I watched had pretty good subtitles, but there really isn’t vast quantities of dialogue, there are however many great fight scenes.
Fight scenes make up at least 3/5s of the film if not slightly more and they are spectacular! The only negative point is that they largely, always involve Cloud Vs the bad guys and not many of the other characters get to see much action.
The score is a little odd, sometimes it works really well other times pieces of music seem out of place with what is happening on screen and other times it’s just plain bad.
It would have been nice to have seen more use of materia and summon monsters, all of which feature but not to a great extent.
So over all, highly enjoyable for me as a Final Fantasy VII freak and I reckon that it would be of interest to anime fans as well.
My main thought after watching this film was; what if Sony Pictures hadn’t screwed up The Spirits Within and used the budget to make it more like this film (i.e. sticking to a Final Fantasy style world – the combination of technology, magic and swords) and not gone down the stupid route that they did, how cool that film could have been!
Also, I don't know if anyone else has seen it or has heard why they wear this, but all the lead characters in the film have a red ribbon tied around their right arm. Any one know why?