Do you want to see ‘Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children’?

Add to Netflix

Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children (2005)

tomatometer

All Critics
Top Critics

Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4

No consensus yet.

No Reviews Yet...

Release Date: Apr 25, 2006 Wide

audience

liked it
Average Rating: 3.9/5
User Ratings: 142,008

My Rating

Added to your Facebook Timeline. — undo

Movie Info

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 left 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,

PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.

Action & Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Takeshi Nozue , Tetsuya Nomura

In Theaters: Apr 25, 2006 Wide

On DVD: Apr 25, 2006

Destination Films

Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children Trailer & Photos

Cast

Critic Reviews for Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children

All Critics (8) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (5) | DVD (8)

Great animation, but a narrative disappointment.

June 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

| Comments (4)

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Essentially a computer game without any interactivity . . .

March 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page

| Comment

James O'Ehley

Sci-Fi Movie Page Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page

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

March 7, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Clinic

| Comments (8)

Scott Weinberg

DVD Clinic

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

April 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies

| Comments (2)

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

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.

April 24, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

| Comments (11)

David Cornelius

eFilmCritic.com

Les artisans de chez Square ont visiblement cherch� � faire plaisir qu'aux fans d'un des plus populaires �pisodes de la franchise et � personne d'autre.

November 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Panorama

| Comment

Jean-Fran�ois Vandeuren

Panorama

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.

October 10, 2005 Full Review | Comments (3)

Mike Sage

Peterborough This Week Source: Peterborough This Week

More Critic Reviews

Audience Reviews for Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children

View All

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, Nobuo Ouematsu. Ouematsu is famous for doing

May 21, 2011

Michael Edwards

Super Reviewer

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 of a good overview does help. This entire

January 7, 2011