Silverdream

(Contains spoilers)

So I watched Final Fantasy VII Advent Children last night, it was disappointing - the script was pretty much non-existant, the return of Sephiroth was entirely predictable (apart from the manner of his return, however they gave that away way too early). The subtitles were off from the script, sometimes noticeably and the voice of Red was …awful, not to mention the fact that they make him look like some kind of unkept, rag-tag hairball, completely unlike Red XIII in the original game.

Oh and did I mention how annoying it was when Sephiroth comes back from the “dead”, yet again?

Despite all that, despite the cliches and all of the cringeworthy religeous connotations (and it’s really flooded with them - Cloud may as well have dressed up as a priest in the final scene), despite the extremely irritating way they cut from scene to scene every five seconds at the beginning, it’s not as bad as it could have been. The fight scenes are okay, the story is nonexistant, the CGI is pretty good. Then you get to the name, they could have released three seconds of footage shot in the Producer’s garden, put Final Fantasy on the front of it and it would have sold. It’s the Final Fantasy effect.

If they’d put more effort into the script, they would have produced a good movie. All the fanfics ever based on Final Fantasy VII are better than the script of this movie, if you could call it a script.. When are they going to learn that it takes more than flashy CGI and a name to make a good movie?