Review of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

I have always been a fan of RPGs, FF7 was one of them. As much as it was a fun game back in the day I can't seem to find that love anymore now that it's buried away with horrible spin offs and merchandise. One major contributor of this(besides that joke of a game, Dirge of Cerberus)is Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children. (oh boy, here comes all the angry fanboys/girls). Also please chill if you don't like my review format and/or structure, this is my first film review. Graphics and Visuals: As it is quite visible to anyone, the film was pretty top-notch for visuals and specialeffects. I have to agree overall it was a visual piece nonetheless and it did get a thumbs up for that...though I do find it strange that they lip synced Spirits Within to English and yet not this one. Oh well, what's done is done and I'm cool with it.

Soundtrack:
I must say I did in fact also enjoy the soundtrack. I was always a fan of the Black Mages and their renditions of beloved final Fantasy music and was glad to find that they were involved with the film. Throughout the film it did in fact fit well for setting the mood and did what it supposed to. So another that's a win for music.

Plot and Characters:
This is where things start to go downhill. I was instantly impressed with the stunning visuals and revamped soundtrack but that's where it ended. It just felt like watching another mindless action movie held together by one of the weakest plots imaginable.

Please take note that if you never played the games and are out of the loop about the story you'll have no idea about the backgrounds of the characters or any general history at all, so unless you've played through the game it's pretty much hopeless to see any character development.

It also doesn't really help that the script seemed like it was written by a 14 year old fanfic writer, it was chalked full of cheesy lines and less than meaningful monologues it was sometimes agonizing to listen (If I hear Dilly Dally Shilly Shally one more time...!).

The plot was not much better, it was hard to even really find one actually. From what I can find it's about some angry sephiroth wannabes (clones?) crying over "mother" and attacking the oblivious protagonist just as an excuse to have pretty action scenes.

Overall:
So overall, it looks and sounds pretty but the content otherwise was bland and weak. I personally would not suggest the film to anyone aside from people who just like over the top action scenes with great visuals, besides that it isn't worth it.