Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
106 min - Animation | Action | Adventure - 11 July 2001 (USA)
Directors:
Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motonori Sakakibara
Writers:
Hironobu Sakaguchi (story), Al Reinert, 3 more credits »
Stars:
Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Ming-Na Wen |
A scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is the first movie with the Final Fantasy name and the first attempt to make a photorealistic rendered 3D feature film. Released on July 11, 2001 by Columbia Pictures, it used a budget of $137 million dollars, but only managed to gain $85 million dollars worldwide making it one of the biggest box office bombs of all time, which delayed the merge between Square Co., Ltd. and Enix. Despite this, the film had received nominations for five different awards and the main character herself received considerable media coverage in the debuting year.
The story follows scientists Aki Ross and Doctor Sid in their efforts to free Earth from a deadly alien race known as the Phantoms, which has driven surviving humanity into barrier cities. They must compete against General Douglas Hein, who wishes to attack the aliens with the Zeus Space Cannon to end the conflict. The film shares with Final Fantasy VII a mystical version of the Gaia hypothesis, in which the source and destination of souls is a planet's lifeforce; the souls are visually represented in the film as they are in Final Fantasy X, Dissidia Final Fantasy, and even Vagrant Story as glowing lights.
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