Review of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005) by Brandon W — 30 Dec 2016

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is the directorial debut of Tetsuya Nomura who's one of the creators of the Kingdom Hearts series, which is my favorite to play, and was also the character design of Final Fantasy VII.

It stars Steve Burton in a computer animated science fiction about a disease that's affecting most of the children, and also Cloud Strife (Steve Burton) himself. So he goes driving around and away from his friends after the events from Final Fantasy VII, and he come across three guys who are part of Sephiroth, and they want to find their "mother" in order to form back to the original state.

This is actually the first Final Fantasy film that I've watched years ago, and despite me not knowing the knowledge of the game itself except for the characters that were in Kingdom Hearts, I remember liking that film.

Now I'm not going with the complete version of it, I'm reviewing the original version, and if I want to do Advent Children Complete, I'll do it if I want to. So with the original itself, it's a lot better than The Spirits Within.

The effects still look amazing as ever as it flows really well with the action scenes and everything else, and not only does it look like Final Fantasy, it feels like one. The action scenes are a lot of fun to watch which The Spirit Within has good action scenes, they're just not as epic as this one, and even the plot in this is better also, although for people that never played the game, they would get very confused unless they really focused on what's going on, and then you at least get a little confused unless you know what the game is about.

The score by Nobuo Uematsu is catchy to listen, especially when it comes to Sephiroth's theme, that stuff will never get out of my head. The acting is good, but at times it does sound a bit off in terms of the approach of the scene.

The characterization is better than Spirits Within, and while you probably want a bit more of it, you think about it, and understand about what they dealt with in the past, which is more than enough. Fans of the game will love this film, I mean, it is a sequel to Final Fantasy VII, it's a film for the fans, but it does try what it can from the non-fans to get a glimpse of what's going on, and for someone like me that never played the game, I rather watch Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Ace Attorney, and Silent Hill over any mediocre, terrible, or downright insulting video game adaptations.