FILM REVIEW - FINAL
FANTASY A film done in CGI an based on a video game - just an expensive lame cartoon really - Visually
very pretty effects, plot cobblers, script, a serious
heap of tosh, looks like a long game of how many cliches can we fit in one film - answer - lots and technobabble so severe you expect Jon Pertwee to leap in shouting Reverse the Polarity etc
The heroine looks good, with much hype on CGI effects on her hair so you end up watching it to see if it was worth the 2 million, - loved critic Jonathon Ross's review when he said any actress and a bottle of Wash & Go would have done the job.
The plot is seriously confusing and confused, often to the point
of being simply unintelligible, the film cribs heavily on the Gaia
hypothesis of James
Lovelock and the film's main boffin character seems to talk of it as though he
thought of it all along
Some of the gung ho heroism is straight out of any Vietnam buddy movie, at its worst when one guy gets injured in a fierce chase battle and asks to be left behind while the others run for it, so they happily leave him with a gun. Some dialogue is awful, such as with a long dull as dishwater council chamber scene explaining Gaia to anyone who never saw Edge Of Darkness, and read Lovelock, and some lines make you go, 'huh?' - Talking of the often impressive spectral alien invaders, known as spirits, someone says, 'the big ones might be their elephants and whales...;' to which someone adds, why would they bring a elephants and whales all the way across space? a
question never really answered. The film finishes with a gooey nothing ever really dies reincarnation message (I think that's what it is anyway, but I had ceased caring by then.) I had thought of seeing this in big screen glory if it had proved any good, but I'm glad I didn't waste my money.
Arthur Chappell
FILM REVIEW - FINAL FANTASY
Visually very pretty effects, plot cobblers, script, a serious
heap of tosh, looks like a long game of how many cliches can we fit in one film - answer - lots and technobabble so severe you expect Jon Pertwee to leap in shouting Reverse the Polarity etc
The heroine looks good, with much hype on CGI effects on her hair so you end up watching it to see if it was worth the 2 million, - loved critic Jonathon Ross's review when he said any actress and a bottle of Wash & Go would have done the job.
The plot is seriously confusing and confused, often to the point
of being simply unintelligible, the film cribs heavily on the Gaia
hypothesis of James Lovelock and the film's main boffin character seems to talk of it as though he thought of it all along
Some of the gung ho heroism is straight out of any Vietnam buddy movie, at its worst when one guy gets injured in a fierce chase battle and asks to be left behind while the others run for it, so they happily leave him with a gun. Some dialogue is awful, such as with a long dull as dishwater council chamber scene explaining Gaia to anyone who never saw Edge Of Darkness, and read Lovelock, and some lines make you go, 'huh?' - Talking of the often impressive spectral alien invaders, known as spirits, someone says, 'the big ones might be their elephants and whales...;' to which someone adds, why would they bring a elephants and whales all the way across space? a
question never really answered. The film finishes with a gooey nothing ever really dies reincarnation message (I think that's what it is anyway, but I had ceased caring by then.) I had thought of seeing this in big screen glory if it had proved any good, but I'm glad I didn't waste my money.
Arthur Chappell