Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Excellente movie about what happened. Just what i wanted.

The film opens with a rather lengthy introduction. I was confused by a number of things, like the princess staying behind and Lucis being the name of the good guy. Since when? Good guys in a city behind a wall. It is protected by the "Divine Crystal" whose magical powers are channeled through the aged King Lucis to both make a wall and give the Kingsglaive magical powers, particularly warping. Outside the city of Insomnia (seriously?) lives the evil empire with Starship Trooper bugs and a Kracken looking thing. They want the city and the rock.Like most films based on a game, there is little drama and a lot of fighting. I love the graphics and the Barbie Doll Uma Thurman Princess. My background is the gaming world is I played FF 1-8. Having spent the bulk of several months breeding and racing Chocobas, I got the sign on the truck. The film didn't allow me to connect to the characters. When a major character dies, I was emotionless unlike the week I had to take off of work when Aerith died. Apparently this game didn't having any healing spells as one character spends the entire film on a crutches.The plot twists around deceit and a royal wedding. And the ending...if I understand it...leaves things terribly open. Great action, great graphics, a plot you needed to pay attention to, and no Tifa Lockhart looking characters. Much better than the FFVII film.

I watched this movie after beating the game and it was amazing!It filled tons of missing plot information that you don't gather from the video game.I love how it ties from the movie to the video game as well with the ending of the movie and the beginning of the video game.I think in order to appreciate the movie you need to get the story line of the game.I can see how the story line just by the movie alone would be very confusing to viewers however regardless of if you watched the movie first then played the video game, vice versa, you will be asking yourself questions without the other half.Regardless though as a witness to both sides, I absolutely loved it!

Why this movie is being rated low is beyond me. Reviews on Metacritc state you might get lost watching the movie. That it's only for fans. That it's not a good movie in itself, but the best FF movie. What a load of ****. I'm not a die-hard fan of FF, having played only FF8, and at no point I found myself wondering what I was watching. That is the first point, you can understand perfectly what's going on, provided that your IQ is not too low, as seems to be the case with "professional" reviewers. The animation is simply brilliant, it's so realistic that you find yourself wondering whether it's a movie or an animation, and all the characters are well-writing, so much so that you get attached to them and feel it when they happen to, well, die. The voice acting is great, too, and well-suited. The main characters are great, and the writing and the plot in general are top-notch, complex, not a black-n'-white American world view. At last, the combat is astounding. This is, in sum, a beautiful, touching movie. Just ignore the "professional" reviewers and people mimicking them, just look at the insanely high rates they give to games and movies. They were probably just paid well enough and biased because it's "movie-game", a seemingly-inferior category of movie.