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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children ova Review

Two years after the defeat of Sephiroth by Cloud and his gang, a new danger reappears. This danger is Kadaj. He and his two brothers are out to get the cells of Jenova in order to bring back Sephiroth. Cloud, in order to stop it, must pick up the sword once again and join in the fight. With the help of the Turks and the former President of ShinRa, and his fellow friends, Cloud must prevent this danger and save Midgar and the world once again.

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Story & Playability

I am sorry to say that this movie is embarrassing to the Final Fantasy series. But hey, we should have all expected that much, no? You know the impact you get after you get slapped across the face? You think, "I can't believe it!". That's what I thought after an hour and 41 minutes of increasing violence, senseless scenes, and a director's efforts to make money. Supposedly, if it weren't for the fact that it relates to Final Fantasy VII, no one would ever watch it again.

This movie, would not make sense to anybody that did not play Final Fantasy. So thus, this movie is for fans only. And was made for fans. How highly the producers thought of themselves! This movie, was made for Japanese fanes of the Final Fantasy series. Boom.

If you're a stranger, and you watch it, you think "What the hell is going on?" so I think the producers should have put an introduction to the characters. The beginning I thought, struck me as a very dull. A lot of parts are uncertain and leave you hanging. And keep you hanging! The main focus often switches from one to the other, and often is off track.

Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo's villanous ways aren't very villanous. A villian should make you want to hate them, and root for the heroes of the story. I just thought, "Hurry up and let someone win for God's sake." They have inhumane reflexes, they're all probably anorexic, and are faster than a speeding bullet. It's not very realistic.The evil in this story feels extremely phony as the villians(aka Kadaj Loz and Yazoo) keep dragging it out, and halfway through, you're probably already asleep.

Rating: 3

Graphics

Obviously they would want good art in their movie, who doesn't? The producers wanted the art to be perfect(I could tell) Since they probably believed that first appearances are everything! Oh my.
Although the characters and scenes were done nicely and neatly, everybody looks the same, if you didn't notice. Vincent, I felt, looked like Cloud with black hair...

Okay. I just knew that they wanted Kadaj to look cool and sinister and hot. Boom, guess what? They failed in all three aspects. Kadaj looks like a total beauty queen, and mixes all these words that make no sense together.

There is this one scene where Cloud is going to rescue all the children, and he's through this...forest. Hey, guess what? Those trees in the background looked like poorly constructed Photoshop tree brushes.

Rating: 7

Sound

For the Japanese version, I'm sure everything was fine. I don't know. But for the English version, God knows what. The sounds are used at all the wrong times and often ruin the moment. Scenes that needed some background music didn't have any. There was too much garbage in the music and like I said before, trashed the moment. The only moment where I truly felt they had done a good job was with the Aerith and Cloud moment in the flowers.

I supposed the producers wanted the music to bring out suspenseful or touching feeling of the scene. Well, they did a pretty good job with the violence scenes.

The character's voices(Especially Cloud) are often mulled and they speak too fast at scenes. Sometimes you can barely hear them, and other times their voice projects too much.

Rating: 4

Fun

This movie was by far the worst of its years. Just to plainly say it out: I did not like it. At all(Hate is a very strong word...). This movie is 90% violence, and the 10% was Cloud's problems.

WE DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU AND YOUR NEEDS, CLOUD!

The fighting scenes happened too fast and too inhumane for the human eye to actually take it all in. The producers treat all the characters as if they were gods, and thus make them very un-realistic.

I know this review was short, but there's nothing much to say when all you can pinpoint are the bad points.(Please don't complain to me if the score is too low for your liking)

Hopefully, if they make another movie, they can fix their mistakes and make a better, more complete movie. Fortunately, after this movie, they won't be showing their faces for awhile to some people.

Rating: 2

Final Verdict

3.5000 (below average)

Reviewed by ninasun100, Aug 21, 2007

Comments

  1. cloudstrifekilledme Jan 19, 2009

    well, throughout the whole game i only paid attention to the graphics and fighting. the graphics were amazing- i couldnt stop starring at their hair...tehee.... anyways, also, 100% agreed with, the japanese voice actors were way better than english- especially for aeris. :]

  2. ryanwho Mar 29, 2009

    Seems like your childhood memories clouded the reality of the game you played, way back when, if this movie seemed like such sacrilege.

  3. ResonantSoul Jul 23, 2009

    I liked it xD Oh well.

  4. Onlyrockman Aug 01, 2009

    The remake they release in 2009 is actually better than the old one, a lot better. I never played the game but this movie really gets me into it, guess I'll download it and give it a try.

  5. kathleen787 Aug 07, 2009

    what kind of review is this? what the hell...

  6. SchRita Aug 24, 2009

    Thanks for the review!

  7. nainoi Sep 13, 2009

    excellent graphic

  8. david2331 Sep 20, 2009

    I disagree, I loved it!

  9. SchRita Oct 31, 2009

    Thanks for the review!

    merged: 10-31-2009 ~ 10:14pm
    Thanks for the review!

    merged: 10-31-2009 ~ 10:15pm
    Thanks for the review!

  10. rukasu04 Mute Member Dec 31, 2009

    Nice Review

  11. SchRita Jan 15, 2010

    Thanks for the review!

  12. NenrikiKaen May 09, 2011

    I think you're being a bit to hard on it. I'm sure you could've found SOMETHING good about it. Especially since, as MapleRose said, this review should've been objective.

  13. back07 Apr 30, 2012

    i've already watched it's two times, the graphic and music is greeat but i didn't understand the story
    :/

  14. angelxxuan Banned Member May 20, 2012

    I adore this movie, it's better than the first one. I wish they would make more of them. I cannot agree with you with you stating it's the worse one, but we are all entitled to our own opinions when it comes to something after all :) I also own this movie and watch it often :) I haven't ever played a final fantasy game and I had no trouble, whatsoever following what was going on.

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