Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Enchorde It is rather obvious, the name of the game included in the title and all, but it also aptly describes the movie. An animated movie, and for the most part animated well in my opinion, but heavily influenced by the game I presume. And when it comes to graphics, that's nothing bad. But when it comes to story, that's a different matter. Here, the media movie and game differs wildly. In games ( I should note that I have not played Final Fantasy and can't refer to that specific game) the story is pretty linear. One event after another, mostly one battle (or challenge) after another. That doesn't really cut it in a movie though. Here you need more of a background, more character and more of an explanation of why things is happening. The story in this is pretty thin about such things, but acceptable if you think of it as a simple action movie. The ending though is a letdown. It is not much of a ending at all. No resolution of what becomes of the characters or what they fought for. It is nothing more but an empty promise of more, a next challenge or battle. I guess the story continues in a game somewhere, making this one of the longest commercials ever made.5/10

tvsweeney-39052 Knowing nothing of the Final Fantasy game or the plot, I rented this DVD specifically because of the intriguing preview. I wasn't aware if each was part of a single far-reaching story or a standalone film. Though this one seemed a mere episode, with very little explanation and a negligible individual plot, I found this snippet intriguing. I also was confused of the relationship between the characters in the prologue and this was never really explained. Those who follow the story probably had no such problem. One irritating point throughout was the way scenes would fade to black with several seconds of blank space between scenes. I also thought the presence of very contemporary-looking cars, as well as hollow-point bullets in the weapons to be a little anachronistic set alongside the monsters and magic.What mainly impressed me, however, was the animation, which is...fantastic! To date, my viewing of live-action animations using computer graphics has been limited to three films, and this is the best one yet. It doesn't take much to accept that these characters are real actors and not computer graphic images. In spite of the fact they sometimes moved faster than an actual human could and performed impossible feats, they did look real. With only two exceptions, they appear lifelike. Lip movement and mouth shape was synced perfectly with the words being spoken. Where usually the features on these kind of images are bland, on these the detail, from wrinkles and expressions to individual strands of hair is near-perfect. Only the eyes gave away their artificiality. Though they moved and blinked, there was still a certain glassy, unfocused quality about them, as if the artists neglected them and instead concentrated on the faces.One character was a little disconcerting--and disturbing--the Tom Baker Dr. Who-lookalike Neflheim councilor. With his big floppy hat and long muffler, he seemed completely out of place among the flowing robes and slightly medieval garb of the other characters, making me wonder if this was a tongue-in-cheek homage.This was an entertaining film. Since it was an episode instead of a complete story, it did made me wish I'd come in at the beginning. I'm now intrigued enough to look up the others.

Sean Cai The movie did an amazing work on the graphics. Texture, light, everything looks very real. Since many war scene are involved, there're plenty explosions to demonstrate the cutting edge CGI work.However, if you didn't read anything about the story in advance, the movie will make no sense to you.You can feel it when an important character shows up. Yet since there's no introduction on the back ground story, the things characters do make no sense to you. If you played any FF game in the past, some of the things is very obvious, like the ring. But the overall story telling is very poor. Huge monsters show up with no explain, huge statue come alive and no one in the movie surprised.I guess I wasn't the only asking myself what's going on again and again. I hope the story completes itself in the game.

Mika_Valentine The story tells of the diminishing numbers of the Kings elite forces of Lucis finding it near impossible to maintain and defend the borders from the Empire. The King (voiced by Sean Bean) realize it's only a matter of time before the walls are breached, knowing the magic will not be able to stop the attackers, and will feel it necessary to accept an offer of peace by agreeing to give up territories to the Niflheim empire, an agreement that doesn't sit well with many of those that fought to protect Lucis. The King will regret letting the Niflheim's into Lucis, they intend only treachery and seek to steal the magic of the sacred crystal for their own use... The King will insist his daughter 'Lunafreya' (voiced by Lena Headey) who had been rescued after years of captivity should take the ring and with the help of loyal defender 'Nyx' (voiced by Aaron Paul) be taken to safety....a perilous journey.I wasn't really sure what to expect with this movie, but after seeing it I can say it exceeded all my expectations and quite frankly I was blown away. The movie is absolutely stunning and at times it looks extremely realistic, despite being all animated. The fight scenes choreography was well thought out, they were tense and really showed off both sides, unique fight style and made them look evenly powerful. and the story Ifelt was easy to follow and very interesting. After seeing this I am really considering getting the game.