The audience at preview screenings hated this plot point so much that it was out for the thatrical release. User reviews Review. Top review. A fine tribute to the wonderful cinematics of the Final Fantasy series, but should have just been another Sci-fi called "The Spirits Within". It's not very usual that a movie based on a game turns out to be a stunning movie.
The incredibly realistic characters and beautifully rendered backdrops in this movie make it a fascinating work of CGI. Unfortunately, its story falls short of anything but a rather boring Sci-Fi plot, which I'm sure is what caused it to be such a failure in the box-office. The Spirits Within follows a young scientist named Aki Ross, who shares a belief with her colleague Dr.
Sid that with the collection of 7 spirits they can stop an invading alien race and save the earth. Being a fan of the video game series of the same name, I remember getting pretty excited for this movie when it first came out.
After seeing it for the first time, I could not figure out why in the world they would call this movie "Final Fantasy". Aside from a few subtle references to characters and themes from the video game series, it does not contain enough blatant similarities to possess the Final Fantasy title, and I feel like this should have been a more important goal in directing this movie. It was a great choice to have done this movie in CGI rather than in live-action, as one of the most captivating things about the Final Fantasy series are its fantastic cinematic scenes.
To have a whole movie based on the quality of an epic Final Fantasy cinematic really shows the hard work that goes into creating all of these scenes. Every model in the movie displays a high level of detail from the main characters to the ships that they fly in. The freckles on Ross's face allow for intense close-ups. The subtle movements of their facial structures make them more interesting to look at.
It's an art form that was very well presented in this film. In fact, this was the first full CGI film to feature fully realistic characters, modeled to look like real actors. The fact that it is a computer generated movie allows more freedom to conduct scenes and also set camera angles in places that would be impossible to get if it were shot in real life. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within portrays a mastery of computer generated imagery for its time. It's a fine tribute to the wonderful cinematics of the Final Fantasy series.
But it doesn't possess a very original plot line, which doesn't even portray enough references to be called Final Fantasy, and should have just been another Sci-fi called "The Spirits Within". Dabaens Jun 25, FAQ 1. Does this movie have any relationship with the games? Details Edit. Release date July 11, United States.
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Top Gap. See more gaps Learn more about contributing. Edit page. See the full list. General Hein, leader of the armed forces, mocks this concept and asks for proof. Aki then shows him proof by revealing that she has been infected by the Phantoms, yet still remains alive. If she acts in any way abnormal, she is to be arrested. Ross, accompanied by the rest of the squad, then leaves the barrier city for the Tucson Wasteland, where she hopes to find the seventh spirit.
After dropping energy buoys to distract the Phantoms, they descend and attempt to locate and retrieve the spirit. After a while, they find it - it is contained in the living tissues inside the backpack of a dead soldier; the organic matter within the pack had kept the spirit intact. After retrieving it, they discover that they are surrounded by Phantoms, who, apparently, have been attracted to the one located inside Dr. The squad is picked up, but the General's soldiers try to apprehend Dr.
One is killed by a Phantom, and the team narrowly escapes. General Hein, meanwhile, is desperate to gain clearance to fire the Zeus Cannon.
He arrests the operators of New York's barrier and lowers the shields in a section of the city. Hein's plan is to sacrifice a small part of the population in order to convince the government that the Phantoms can breach the shields, allowing him to take necessary steps.
His plan backfires, as the Phantoms are able to use plasma conduits to travel through the rest of the city. Aki and only a handful of her crew survive the resulting attack. Subsequently, Hein is floating in space, about to commit suicide, when a transmission comes in, saying that following the disaster, he is now authorized to use the Zeus cannon.
Aki and Dr. Sid devise a plan to destroy the Phantoms at their heart, the Phantom crater. The plan involves Aki and Gray being lowered into the crater inside a bio-etheric shield vehicle, and finding and removing the eighth spirit, which is a Phantom.
The pair have just located the Phantom when suddenly a beam from the Zeus station crashes into the crater, killing the Phantoms on the surface, including the eighth spirit.
The beam leaves the vehicle shield-less and exposed to the Phantoms, which now cover the crater in response to the attack. Gray leaves the vehicle to protect Aki from the Phantoms. Meanwhile, Aki has her final vision in which a Phantom tells her that the spirit within her is in fact the 8th spirit.
When Aki wakes up, she calls Gray in to use his energy pack battery to project the completed wave pattern of the eight spirits. As the projection begins, another Zeus beam penetrates the atmosphere, completely obliterating the bio-etheric shield vehicle, and triggering a massive reaction from the Phantom world's spirit, which resides in the crater.
This attack, however, overloads the Zeus cannon, destroying it and killing General Hein. With the vehicle destroyed, Gray sacrifices his own life to distribute Aki's wave, using his body to transmit it directly to the Phantom world spirit. The Phantoms transform into bright, floating orbs which return to space to transcend to the afterlife as they should have done when their world was destroyed, and the end scene is of Aki holding Gray's body and looking into the newly liberated world.
The movie's working title was simply "Gaia". During preproduction the script went through fifty incarnations. Early incarnations included a New York City divided in an "upper city" and "lower city", riot police, oxygen salesmen, and dispensing machines, and even French Foreign Legion desert troops and European biohazard soldiers. In one of the incarnations, there was a small child named Meg, who had a much larger part in the overall story.
In the final version of the film it is mentioned that the fifth spirit was drawn from a terminally ill child. This is the only reference to Meg left in the final version. By the time the final shots were rendered some of the earlier ones had to be redone because they did not match anymore.
Also, the software used to create them had become more advanced and hence more detail was possible. Before the film's release there was already skepticism of its potential to be financially successful; Time Magazine noted that video-game adaptations had a poor track record when it came to the box office, also noting that it was Sakaguchi's first feature film.
The film was released in the United States on July 11, Fan reception remains mixed to this day; although many viewers and fans of the source series applaud Sakaguchi's efforts for attempting to create a movie, a common critique remains held to how far removed its own concepts and material was in comparison from the fantasy and otherworldly themes of its originating game series. Entertainment Weekly named Aki Ross , the film's protagonist, an " It Girl ", stating that " Calling this action heroine a cartoon would be like calling a Rembrandt a doodle.
Her appearance has been received positively by critics, with praise for the finer details of the character model such as the rendering of her hair. The New York Times described her as having the "sinewy efficiency" of Ellen Ripley and the visual appeal of Julia Roberts ' portrayal of Erin Brockovich , she has also been compared to the video game character Lara Croft.
Action and Adventure Cinema described her as among the "least overtly eroticised" female characters in science fiction. The soundtrack to the film was released on July 3, by Sony Music Entertainment. Director Hironobu Sakaguchi opted for the acclaimed film composer instead of Nobuo Uematsu , the composer of the Final Fantasy games' soundtracks, a decision met with mixed opinion as many of the game's fans were completely unaware of who Goldenthal was.
Nevertheless Goldenthal's work was met with positive reviews and the album was nominated for a World Soundtrack Award. Edited by Steven L. Kent, the page color book contained a forward by director Sakaguchi and extensive information on all aspects of film's creation, including concept art, storyboards, sets and props, layout, motion capture, and animation.
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