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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

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Reviews Counted:25

Fresh:8

Rotten:17

Average Rating:4.9/10

Consensus: The movie raises the bar for computer animated movies, but the story is dull and emotionally removed.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sci-fi action violence

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Jul 11, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $31,490,045

Synopsis: Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi (who also created the best-selling series of video games that inspired the film), the groundbreaking FINAL FANTASY, which stars a startlingly lifelike cast of... Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi (who also created the best-selling series of video games that inspired the film), the groundbreaking FINAL FANTASY, which stars a startlingly lifelike cast of animated characters, is the first photo-realistic computer-generated feature film ever made. In the year 2065, Earth has been taken over by a race of alien phantoms and transformed into a barren wasteland sprinkled with dome-enclosed barrier cities--the last remaining bastions of human civilization. Dr. Aki Ross (voiced by actress Ming-Na) has teamed up with Captain Gray Edwards (Alec Baldwin) to search for the "eighth spirit," a powerful entity dwelling in an unknown life form somewhere on the planet. It holds the key to perfecting a system of energy waves that will neutralize the phantoms. Ross's opponent is the reckless General Hein (James Woods), who is determined to put a stop to the alien invasion by firing a satellite cannon directly into a nest of phantoms located deep within the Earth, even though this could mean obliterating the planet itself and all life upon it. [More]

Starring: Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Donald Sutherland

Starring: Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Donald Sutherland, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin, Keith David, Jean Simmons

Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi

Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Screenwriter: Al Reinert, Jeff Vintar
Producer: Jun Aida, Remington Scott, Hironobu Sakaguchi
Composer: Elliot Goldenthal
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment

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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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The exercise is so elaborately pointless you'd think the Pentagon had bankrolled it.

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07/18/01
Michael Atkinson
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Village Voice
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07/16/01
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A mesmerizing technical achievement.

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07/16/01
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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After you're done marveling at the characters' semirealistic way of moving and the freckles and minor imperfections that dot their skin ... it's all too easy to get hung up on the things that make them seem clumsy and awkward.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
07/13/01
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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The only reason to see Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is to gaze in amazement at what the future of film may hold. It's not a particularly good movie, but it's a movie that may change the movies.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
07/13/01
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
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Moviegoers accustomed to Hollywood action probably won't find this contemplative adventure so appealing.

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07/12/01
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today
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Has the stolidness of a video game, from which it is derived.

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07/12/01
Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell
New York Times
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Fast-paced and highly watchable.

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07/12/01
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
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The too-smooth skin, the too-tidy hair, the slightly wooden way the characters move -- all of the elements that nudge them from the realm of the ordinary -- only serve to heighten the sense that everything on screen deserves our utmost attention.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
07/11/01
Eric Harrison
Eric Harrison
Houston Chronicle
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The sight of these characters getting romantic is about as involving as watching two expensive mannequins kissing in a Macy's window.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
07/11/01
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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Predictable, nonsensical plot, laughably lame dialogue and a surfeit of cloying environmentalist piety.

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07/11/01
Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
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At least the movie tries not to come across like a video game that you can't play.

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07/11/01
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday
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Is Final Fantasy decent sci-fi? Yes, more than decent.

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07/11/01
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Like Dr. Ross and her companions, the movie artfully mimics life without ever truly living.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
07/11/01
Mark Caro
Mark Caro
Chicago Tribune
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Sooner or later, viewers have to ask themselves: If they were to do this film with live actors, would it be worth seeing?

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
07/11/01
Bob Graham
Bob Graham
San Francisco Chronicle
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A technical milestone.

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07/11/01
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Digital technology allows man to create man in his own image with greater sophistication than ever before, and the 'man' he creates is a bore.

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07/11/01
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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Narratively, thematically, this is a dismissible picture, just another in a long and forgettable line of silly action flicks.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
07/11/01
Rick Groen
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