Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

2001

Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 44% · 144 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 48% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 85560 85.6K

future dystopia post-apocalyptic future space travel battle assignment alien

Director

Hironobu Sakaguchi Photo
Hironobu Sakaguchi

Top cast

James Woods Photo
James Woods as General Hein
Steve Buscemi Photo
Steve Buscemi as Neil
David Arnott Photo
David Arnott as Additional Voices
Ming-Na Wen Photo
Ming-Na Wen as Doctor Aki Ross
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700.69 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 5
1.45 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  nl  de  dk  fi  no  sv  
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 28

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by enricoshapka 7 / 10

Not really a Final Fantasy

Different from movies like Advent children. I can see the fact that the planet has energy life like the one in final fantasy vii, but it honestly would have been better to just name it differently. The film is not bad at all, sci fi, apocalyptic and tragic with beautiful graphics but the story is too hard to follow (aliens that you don't understand if are bad or just a plague, or what's the point of the 8 spirits) and leaves you without answers at the end. Worth a watch maybe. For me 7.5.
Reviewed by Dabaens 7 / 10

A fine tribute to the wonderful cinematics of the Final Fantasy series, but should have just been another Sci-fi called "The Spirits Within".

It's not very usual that a movie based on a game turns out to be a stunning movie. But Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, however, is just that. The incredibly realistic characters and beautifully rendered backdrops in this movie make it a fascinating work of CGI. Unfortunately, its story falls short of anything but a rather boring Sci-Fi plot, which I'm sure is what caused it to be such a failure in the box-office.The Spirits Within follows a young scientist named Aki Ross, who shares a belief with her colleague Dr. Sid that with the collection of 7 spirits they can stop an invading alien race and save the earth. Being a fan of the video game series of the same name, I remember getting pretty excited for this movie when it first came out. After seeing it for the first time, I could not figure out why in the world they would call this movie "Final Fantasy". Aside from a few subtle references to characters and themes from the video game series, it does not contain enough blatant similarities to possess the Final Fantasy title, and I feel like this should have been a more important goal in directing this movie. It was a great choice to have done this movie in CGI rather than in live-action, as one of the most captivating things about the Final Fantasy series are its fantastic cinematic scenes. To have a whole movie based on the quality of an epic Final Fantasy cinematic really shows the hard work that goes into creating all of these scenes. Every model in the movie displays a high level of detail from the main characters to the ships that they fly in. The freckles on Ross's face allow for intense close-ups. The subtle movements of their facial structures make them more interesting to look at. It's an art form that was very well presented in this film. In fact, this was the first full CGI film to feature fully realistic characters, modeled to look like real actors. The fact that it is a computer generated movie allows more freedom to conduct scenes and also set camera angles in places that would be impossible to get if it were shot in real life.Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within portrays a mastery of computer generated imagery for its time. It's a fine tribute to the wonderful cinematics of the Final Fantasy series. But it doesn't possess a very original plot line, which doesn't even portray enough references to be called Final Fantasy, and should have just been another Sci-fi called "The Spirits Within".
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