|Forum|Articles|Another Final Fantasy Review By Anubis Final fantasy could have been so much better. But being a videogame movie it was doomed to be "less than stellar". The plot. A big meteor had crashed into the earth that was filled with see-through aliens called "phantoms". The main character which I will refer to as the chick from now on is trying to find life forms that will produce an opposing energy wave to kill them. The chick is also infected with one of these phantoms and has these dreams where she sees the phantoms memories. It eventually comes down to the phantoms being ghosts of an alien world that was destroyed in a war. Ghosts. The movie goes downhill from there. It eventually comes down to the "evil government dude" not being to fire the big ass cannon that they spent god knows how many years making because it will "hurt Gaia".Kid you I not. There is also a B storyline in which the chick and the head of the space marine detachment that is supposed to be protecting her get it on. Like we did not see that one coming. The thing is, before the movie deteriorated to "hurting Gaia" they were doing so well. There are lots of action sequences and lots of space marines blowing up phantoms with lasers and what not. Since the whole movie is computer generated it is actually harder to show a closeup of two people talking than it is to show guys killing each other and they take advantage of the fact. The entire middle of the movie is one long fight sequence in which they try to escape a city being overrun by phantoms. There are lots cool vehicles, weapons, and gadgets to see and the makers flaunt their CGI skills by packing every city scene with an array of futuristic effects and devices that look as though they could actually work. Unfortunately once they escape the city you could leave the theater and not miss anything. The rest of the movie is spent developing the B storyline or spreading propaganda for the Gaia hypothesis. There are a few good sequences at the end showing the orbital space cannon in action as the evil government dude blows up the meteor but sadly the climax is not one. The ending involving the "alien Gaia" is hokey at best, fabulously ludicrously hokey at worst. It makes no sense. It is stupid and lame. The first half of the movie is good, And the fact that I would recommend going to see the movie and then leaving after they escape from the city should give you an idea of how good the actions sequences were in the first half of the movie. Unfortunately it looks like the videogame movie rule is sill unbroken Pros: Lots of action Killing evil translusent aliens is fun Cool explosions Death and killing Ships,Weapons,Vehicles kick ass Cons: Space Marines don't swear (PG-13 rating) Killing ambient ghosts is not fun Lame plot Plot becomes lamer as movie progresses Lameness of plot unexpectedly doubles partway through the movie Plot buries the needle on the lame-o-meter after the Zeus cannon explodes Plot subsequently implodes, taking much of the movies original coolness with it B Storyline haplessley tacked on Final Rating: 3.2 out of 5 (Imagine 3 animated gifs of hand grenades or human heads or somthing here)   Related Article : Final Fantasy Review     Syntax Error/:|Forum|Articles|