Fresh
A mesmerizing technical achievement.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Unleash a new reality
2001 · 1h 46m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Hironobu Sakaguchi
,
Motonori Sakakibara
Overview
Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron and her mentor, Dr. Sid, Aki must save the Earth from its darkest hate and unleash the spirits within.
Director and cast
- Hironobu Sakaguchi Director
- Motonori Sakakibara Director
- Donald Sutherland as Dr. Cid ( voice )
- Peri Gilpin as Off. Jane Proudfoot (voice)
- Ming-Na Wen as Dr. Aki Ross ( voice )
- Alec Baldwin as Cap. Gray Edwards (voice)
- Ving Rhames as Sgt. Ryan Whitaker (voice)
- Steve Buscemi as Off. Neil Fleming ( Voice )
- James Woods Cast
- Keith David Cast
- Jean Simmons Cast
- Matt McKenzie Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
44%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The exercise is so elaborately pointless you'd think the Pentagon had bankrolled it.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Rotten
I never stopped marveling at the thousands of individually delineated pores and hair strands of the heroine, but the thin story covering her acquisition of one wave after another while narrowly escaping death time and again is strictly for player one.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Fresh
This bigscreen adaptation of the long-popular interactive computer game is visually impressive if not dramatically cool, and is marked by "acting" that is no worse than that found in the majority of sci-fi films.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Rotten
The human figure, however, remains a challenge to current CGI technology, since the detailing of hair and freckles, for instance, proves rather more credible than the marionette-like impression created by cold eyes and oddly unconvincing body movements.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
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