When a lethal disease known as Geostigma starts to spread across the planet, Cloud Strife who has retired into seclusion is asked to help out. Reluctantly he accepts and sets out to fight a man named Kadaj and his brothers Loz and Yazoo who are searching for the "mother".
This is definitely a movie made for fans who have played the video game. It's not a bad story, only that it's quite hard to understand and follow everything that happens if you're new to the game. The story takes place 2 years after Final Fantasy VII left off, and if you haven't been playing the game a helluva lot, don't expect to understand all of what's going on. I play a lot of video games myself but is more of a Silent Hill/Tony Hawk person, and even though I've tried out Final Fantasy VII, I still haven't played it nearly enough to understand the movie very well.
For Final Fantasy VII fanatics, I guess this movie must be truly fantastic. Still though, even if you haven't played it, it might still work as there are so many nice things to look at so only that makes it worth watching. And it's not that hard to figure out the basic idea of the story itself, so even if you don't know the characters, the places, the background story etc, it's still ok to watch. Although, if you've played the game you're bound to get a helluva lot more out from watching it compared to a person who's new to it. Yes, it was somewhat confusing.
 
Since I'm not a big fan of the series, the actual 7th game or other things when it comes to Final Fantasy, I found it to be a bit much to take in at times. Still though, it's fairly easy to get the general idea, so you'll never be completely lost I guess. I loved watching the action scenes, and the animation is the most advance thing I've seen to date on screen. It can't really be described, but has to be seen to fully understand just how amazing everything in this movie looks.
There are of course a lot of action scenes and fights, and they are really something else as well. At times it actually feels like someone's playing a video game while you're sitting there, watching that person play. The graphics are absolutely awesome, and the movie sure has its moment where things are completely stunning. So like I said before, if for nothing else, it's worth watching just for the way it looks. Good score too.
There's much to take in, and especially early on in the movie the story felt too complex at times. If I would've played the game a lot before, things would've probably looked a lot different. There were a huge number of action scenes that were really cool to watch, but I had a hard time to stay fully focused the movie throughout since there was just too much going on. But again, it's probably just because I haven't played the game a lot. It gets a rating of 10 for the way it looks which was absolutely amazing, but I had a really hard time trying to stay interested so I can't really give it more than a six. Recommended for fans of the game, and recommended to others just of the fantastic way it looks.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2004
DIRECTOR: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue
WRITING CREDITS: Kazushige Nojima
GENRE: Animation, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
CAST: Shotaro Morikubo, Keiji Fujiwara, Shogo Suzuki
COUNTRY: Japan
RUNTIME: 101 min
RATING: 6/10
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