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A strange disease is decimating the land and it's up to the Hero cloud to emerge from solitude and defeat a new breed of enemy in the computer animated feature that picks up where Final Fantasy VII le... read more read more...ft off. It has been two years since the events of Final Fantasy VII, and though the ruins of Midger still stand to show the sacrifices made for peace, a new threat to mankind has arrived. With the citizens of the countryside falling deathly ill and old enemies rising from the ashes to seek revenge, Cloud must leap back into action and help his fellow men lest his solitude leave all of mankind vulnerable to another devastating attack. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Takeshi Nozue, Tetsuya Nomura

Release Date: April 25, 2006

Keywords: action, animated, game, prettiest

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DVD Release Date: April 25, 2006

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  • skeletonking101
    May 21, 2011
    skeletonking101
    I haven't played "Final Fantasy VII" but this movie was extremely good, i prefer to listen to it in japanese though, because the english dubbing is really bad like a godzilla movie. But they got one of my favorite video game composers to return to do the music for this film, Nobu... read moreo Ouematsu. Ouematsu is famous for doing all them usic for "Square Enix" games and to do a video game movie based off of a square enix game it comes as no surprise he would do it, and he did a fantastic job as always, including a great remake of the Sephiroth theme "One Winged Angel." Plus this film has the best cg ive ever seen in an animated film, moost of the time i forgot i was watching a CG Film because the CG looked just like real people.
  • fb100000257973100
    January 7, 2011
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    When someone thinks about it, the main magic of this film does rely on if you have any knowledge about the video game that this film services as a sequel to. But, does this mean that it is required to have played the game to understand this entire film? No. But having something o... read moref a good overview does help. This entire film, in terms of direction, does get slow at times, but the look of the film as a whole does keep your eyes staring at it. This is a film that shows that care and attention to detail for the look and in that sense, it creates a life like and beautiful film. For the voice actors, I understand how hard it was to put voices on these characters, and whom they got for the original Japanese print and the English dub do a fantastic job. What shocks me the most is how they were able to put in so much emotion into the voices. That takes acting to do, and they got the best. In terms of script, the only down fall is that they do not give you enough detail and background on a lot of situations and some plot elements are left wide open. Finally, for the score, just like the games, the score is beyond breath taking, adding to the already familiar sound a hard rock twist that is like a breath of fresh air to these already wonderful masterpieces. Overall, this is a film for anyone that is a fan of the original game, and it has a good chance at getting new followers.
  • fb733768972
    October 1, 2010
    fb733768972
    Final Fantasy is a weird concept to make into a film, but taking that fact away from the film makes it that much better. You just forget about anything that you can pick out to laugh at in this film and just have a blast watching this epic CGI animated action fest!
  • lewiskendell
    December 11, 2009
    lewiskendell
    Fans of Final Fantasty VII will enjoy seeing their favorite characters in action again, but Advent Children doesn't really offer a story that's strong enough to satisfy the fan or the newcomer. The special effects and action sequences were certainly impressive enough, but most of... read more the cast beyond Tifa and Cloud really have very little to do, and the finale was pure fanservice and little else.
  • jlewis07
    July 16, 2009
    jlewis07
    My opinion of this movie has lowered after seeing it again recently. The story jumps around alot and never truly makes complete sense, but the fight scenes are still worth a watch and pretty exciting.
  • CloudStrife84
    May 15, 2009
    CloudStrife84
    As my profile name here on Flixter suggests, I happen to be a huge fan of the game Final Fantasy VII. Therefore, I can't deny that my review and rating of this film is very biased. Anyway, after seeing it now in the director's cut version (or Advent Children: Complete as it's als... read moreo named), I like it even more than I did previously. This new version, including as much as 30 min extra footage, was a nice treat to be sure (even if the plot remains quite weak compared to that of the original game). A great anime flick in any case though and way better than Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which isn't even half as good in comparison.
  • LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    February 14, 2009
    LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    "I won't just be a memory..."

    An ex-mercenary is forced out of isolation when three mysterious men kidnap and brainwash the city's children afflicted with the Geostigma disease.

    REVIEW
    I'm not really the biggest Final Fantasy fan but this movie is sti... read morell awesome in its own terms. Visuals were top notch, I can see the painstaking effort the creators put in to make the movie a visual delight. It was raw, crisp and awesome altogether. Leave it up to Japan and their innovative and genius minds to make something epic like Final Fantasy. The sound was astounding, it definitely matched the movie's epic vibe and definitely one of the highlights of the movie.

    The plot may be lacking but they made it up in the action department, in more ways than one. Some mind blowing action scenes involves a dragon (or something I'm not really sure) and Cloud with his massive sword jamming it straight down the dragon's throat. And then there's the fight scene inside the church when Tifa fights one of the awesome bad guys. Quite possibly the best scene of the whole movie.

    Definitely a lot better than the more commercialized "The Spirits Within". Seriously, why did they even use Final Fantasy's name on that one?
  • DragonEyeMorrison
    June 16, 2008
    DragonEyeMorrison
    Fanboy junk food of the highest order, the fans ate it joyfully, anyone else has no bussiness seeing this. It adds nothing to the story of the game, neither to the character arc. Just an excuse to see Sephiroth and Cloud do big jump after big jump to smash their swords over and o... read morever. Even if that had been enjoyable the film will be sort of watchable, but Nomura and Nozue manage to make the fights repetitive and tedious as hell.

    No matter how well polished is the CGI, how shinny and good looking everything is in a film, if the characters are as interesting as wood plankets, and could be easilly replaced by said things, then this is no film but actually a fetichistic waste of computer graphics. Not-so-dear-as-of-lately-SE: stop wasting time on this crap and just make better games.
  • newvogueravyn
    March 11, 2008
    newvogueravyn
    I've never played the game, but found it easy enough to understand and good enough to stand as a film in its own right.
  • Saxia
    August 15, 2007
    Saxia
    The graphics are amazing! The story is fast, but it helps if you played the videogame :)

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Critic Reviews

James Plath
June 7, 2009
James Plath, Movie Metropolis

Great animation, but a narrative disappointment. Full Review

Scott Weinberg
March 7, 2007
Scott Weinberg, DVD Clinic

Once the characters start spewing out reams of dialogue about "geostigma," "sephiroth," and "genova," my eyeballs involuntarily start to glaze over. Full Review

Jeffrey Chen
April 25, 2006
Jeffrey Chen, Window to the Movies

[The] battle scenes, during which all normal physics go straight out the window, are exhilarating in a disorienting thrill-ride way. Full Review

David Cornelius
April 24, 2006
David Cornelius, eFilmCritic.com

This is third-rate sci-fi cobbled together with familiar elements of a video game some people like, and that's not nearly enough to work as a film. Full Review

Jean-François Vandeuren
November 6, 2005
Jean-François Vandeuren, Panorama

Les artisans de chez Square ont visiblement cherché à faire plaisir qu'aux fans d'un des plus populaires épisodes de la franchise et à personne d'autre. Full Review

Mike Sage
October 10, 2005
Mike Sage, Peterborough This Week

less like a satisfying followup to a great gaming experience, and more a technical demo on how pretty those blocky FF characters could look on expensive new hardware.

Leslie Felperin
October 18, 2008
Leslie Felperin, Variety

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James O'Ehley
October 18, 2008
James O'Ehley, Sci-Fi Movie Page

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