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And this comes from an ardent supporter of it at the time.Įven though we knew at the time that these weren’t quite photo-real visuals, they were dazzling enough that it didn’t wholly matter. So how has time treated a once ground-breaking film? Perhaps unsurprisingly, not the best. Twenty years on, the new 4K Blu-ray just came out. But like so many filmmakers who become enamored of their own digital effects - George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez come to mind - the folks at Square apparently believed their effects were better than the public at large perceived them to be. Sony must have presumed the ground-breaking visuals would be enough of a hook to get butts in seats. But in 2001, it’s unlikely many moviegoers even recognized the debt the space armor suits owed to Kerberos Panzer Cop. Nowadays, audiences raised on anime would recognize several familiar tropes.

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But even without the gimmick, it would have been a longshot: a science-fiction movie primarily of ideas, named after a video game franchise it bore no plot relationship to, and featuring a strong Earth-mother pagan worldview, starring Ming-Na Wen, best known at the time for Street Fighter and the voice of Mulan. The hook was that it was a movie making the first serious attempt at photo-real CG humans, three years before people would mock the dead eyes of The Polar Express, and one year before the general public got a good look at Gollum. The thrilling, futuristic action-adventure pits the earth and its people against the ultimate enemy - mysterious aliens that steal the energy from all living things on the planet.Though I’m pretty sure it made my personal ten best list in 2001, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a near-insane gamble for a major studio film. Representing the continuing evolution of the synergy between gaming and cinema, FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN is the next creative step from the trendsetting and hugely popular game series.īlurring the lines between reality and computer animation, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is the first feature-length motion picture that brings vivid photoRealism to computer-generated, human characters.

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Aki (voiced by Ming-Na) is able to communicate with the alien invaders through a series of dreams which carry her across time to their home planet. FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN blends spiritual underpinnings with the energy of the digital gaming medium and the scope of the motion picture environment. As the Deep Eyes look on, scientist Aki Ross (seated, voiced by Ming-Na) collects one of the eight spirits-a tiny green plant-she believes will save the planet. (From left to right) As Ryan (voiced by Ving Rhames), Neil (voiced by Steve Buscemi), Jane (voiced by Peri Gilpin) and Aki (voiced by Ming-Na) look on, Gray's body is checked for the alien virus.

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