Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

erinouellette This movie is exactly what I thought it would be! The animation is great and the action sequences are awesome! I personally like the Japanese version better just because there is better flow with the dialog, I find the English voice overs don't suit the characters and in some cases the animated character is still "talking" when the voice actor has stopped, or the words spoken don't exactly match the movement of the characters mouth.Whether you are watching the Japanese or the English versions it is still a really great movie though! Highly recommend if you are a Final Fantasy fan!

MissSimonetta Final Fantasy VII is one of the most beloved games of all time and one of the most compelling in terms of its narrative. Its story touches upon the themes of the grand epics: love, war, death, family, and courage. The characters all possess depth; by the end of the game, you feel as though they're people you've known for years. The ending was perfect in its ambiguity, which is why I was initially hesitant to approach Advent Children. Now having seen the movie, I know I should have been apprehensive for different reasons: it's a soulless cash grab.I do feel like there was a good story in the basic material, touching on Cloud's estranged relationship with his friends and makeshift family with Tifa and Marlene, as well as his lingering guilt over the death of Aerith. The big issue is that the filmmakers don't care about these things; the whole movie is about propelling us to the next action sequence and re-introducing characters you liked in the game in flashy scenes designed purely for fan service. The new characters are all bland, basically a joke. The story and characters are pushed aside, an excuse to show off the animation (which has not aged well) and have Cloud acting cool for the sake of it. Given how lazy the writing is, it is easy to tell that creating a good story was not the goal of the filmmakers.I'd give Advent Children a little leeway if the fights were any fun, but their execution is terrible in every aspect: the editing is so rapid that it is hard to discern what's what, the faux-shaky cam making that effect worse. The fight choreography is laughable too. In the original game, at least the characters were stylized, so you could buy them doing impossible things at times. But when everyone is realistically proportioned and they are all essentially weightless, jumping miles and miles into the air holding eighty-pound weapons-- I'm sorry, my suspension of disbelief can only hold so much before it snaps. The big climactic fight between Cloud and Sephiroth at the end is supposed to be cool, but it looked so over the top that I was beside myself with laughter. Though people are bruised and stabbed, I never felt anyone was in any real danger. When someone falls off of a skyscraper and they are able to land on their feet with not even the least bit of disorientation, I'm going to stop caring quickly.It's really hard to recommend this film to anyone outside of the FFVII fan base and even then, I'm shocked so many people there love it. It could have been so much better. It actually makes me fear for the remake, which is going to have plot alterations from what I have heard. Hopefully the end result will not be as humorless and dull as what we got back in 2005.

Irishchatter I can't say how much impressed I am to have seen this year's later. I was watching Spirits Within lately (if you wanna check out my review, head over to my IMDb page!) and I definitely agree that Advent Children is way better than Spirits Within! The reason was because, it very much is like the games even though I never experienced playing the games before. However what I like about this movie was it makes you definitely want to play the games if you have never heard of them before during your childhood. The details on the faces of the characters looked so real that I thought they were real life actors, not 3-D! I thought everything was great about the movie but the storyline was tricky to understand as I don't know most of the characters and haven't played the games so I was a little lost but that didn't stop me from watching the whole movie. I found it was very enjoyable and I loved the action involved, it pretty much is incredible!Very incredible film indeed!

wilsonliao When i watched the movie, i just know this has to be the greatest movie of the century. Just look at cloud's eyes. You know it is so dead on. And Tifa, those assets. Wow... this is just... so... much to say.. too much in fact. the part where they all fought Bahamut together. i will never forget that scene. practically everyone was useless other than cloud. because of how useless everyone is, it showed how strong cloud is and him being the only hope in saving the entire world. that subconscious pause when Sephiroth was about to attack only shows how cloud is able to exist in another time space entirely for him to catch his breathe. you will never doubt cloud ever again if you truly watched the show. it will blow, your, mind.