Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

Directors:

Hironobu Sakaguchi
Moto Sakakibara (co-director)

Drehbuchautoren:

Hironobu Sakaguchi (story)
Al Reinert (written by) ...

Premierendatum:

11. Juli 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Trickfilm | Action | Abenteuer | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Werbezeile:

Unleash a new reality

Plot:

A female scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms.

Plot Keywords:

Spin Off From Video Game | Box Office Flop | 2060s | Computer Animation | Based On Video Game

Filmpreise:

5 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Criminally Underrated

Besetzung

Ming-Na	...	Dr. Aki Ross (voice)
Alec Baldwin	...	Capt. Gray Edwards (voice)
Ving Rhames	...	Sgt. Ryan Whitaker (voice)
Steve Buscemi	...	Officer Neil Fleming (voice)
Peri Gilpin	...	Officer Jane Proudfoot (voice)
Donald Sutherland	...	Dr. Cid (voice)
James Woods	...	General Hein (voice)
Keith David	...	Council Member #1 (voice)
Jean Simmons	...	Council Member #2 (voice)
Matt McKenzie	...	Major Elliot (voice)

Alternativ:

Fainaru fantaji (Japan)
Final Fantasy (USA) (working title)
Final Fantasy: The Movie (USA) (working title)
Gaia: Final Fantasy (USA) (original script title)
Final Fantasy - Die Mächte in dir (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence.

Länge:

106 Min

Produktionsland:

USA | Japan

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (DeLuxe)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

SDDS (8 channels) | DTS | Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Malaysia:U | Japan:PG-12 | Iceland:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #37629) | South Korea:All | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:Livre | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:11 | Singapore:PG | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG

Firma:

Chris Lee Productions

Dies und das:

During preproduction, the script went through 50 incarnations. In one such form there was a small child named Meg, who had a much larger part in the overall story. In the final version of the film the fifth spirit was drawn from a terminally ill child. This is the only reference to Meg left in the final version.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: After Aki removes the phantom particles from Gray, she picks up a canister that's hovering in the air, when she originally placed it on the table further away.

Dialogzitate:

Aki: I just... I don't know how much time I have left.
Capt. Gray Edwards: Who does?

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in The Benchwarmers (2006)

Soundtrack:

Spirit Dreams Inside

Criminally Underrated

Just to clear up a couple of points:-

a) This is a FILM, not a computer game. b) CGI people don't look or move exactly like real people. That stated, Aki Ross is still a more convincing character than ANYONE played by Keanu Reeves.

Final Fantasy is misnamed; there's little about the story that is "final", nor is it especially fantastic, but what it IS is a pretty decent mystical-science fiction (no, NOT "sci-fi" space opera) yarn. Possibly owing to the real inability to successfully portray facial expressions in the CGI characters, the mood throughout is sombre and hard... so rather more like real life than your average Hollywood space-opera swashbuckler. Frankly, because this story actually tries to make a POINT, it probably disappoints the type of viewer who would like a film like "Aliens". The overriding message is simply that brute force is no use without understanding, and that's a timeless message that many cultures would do well to think about.

And, of course, this film is just BEAUTIFUL. Probably best watched while tripping on acid, if the truth be told.

7/10 and a future classic, as far as I'm concerned. This film will be remembered long after things like "Starship Troopers" have been forgotten.