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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 125
Fresh: 55
Rotten:70
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Consensus: The movie raises the bar for computer animated movies, but the story is dull and emotionally removed.
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 animated characters, is the first... [More]
Starring: Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Donald Sutherland
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
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Reviews for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
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It's a paradox--it's at once exhilarating yet exhausting, thrilling yet boring, masterful yet banal.
08/19/07
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01/26/06
Top Critic
The story is well written and incredibly smart, but probably a bit too spiritual for western audiences.
12/31/05
Top Critic Even in the world of the digitally perfect, a black man seems doomed to be a disposable sidekick, and the heroine must represent every feminist ideal at once.
01/15/05
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02/25/04
A lot of painstaking work went into this . . . Unfortunately, the main story becomes nearly incomprehensible . . . and the last ten minutes or so just feel like drudgery.
03/20/03
The plot itself is convoluted sci-fi fare, taking in elements of botany, biology and philosophy, but it makes more sense than Pearl Harbor and the cast seems a lot more human.
03/04/03
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11/12/02
The cityscapes, action sequences and phantoms and the sheer scale of the film are jaw-dropping.
10/21/02
Just when you think you've seen every computer trick and gimmick that can possibly stick to a screen, along comes a new advance that puts the 'special' back in special effects.
10/15/02
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