This has got to be one of the dullest films of all time! If your life is too exciting, perhaps Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within will cool your jets.

So there's this girl having a re-occurring dream, and she needs to save the Earth, and there's nothing more to her.

"Hello? Room Service? I'd like some characters with more depth than the 3-D graphics, please."

The writing sucks. Everyone seems to be a pure 2-D person. The scientist, the Crazy General and his lackeys, the hero who knows more than anyone else. It really stinks.

Okay, I mentioned it, let's talk about the 3-D graphics. They're good, great, fantastic. But they aren't a reason to make a movie. If you wanted to demo 3-D graphics, you should make a short film. Which leads me to my final gripe.

This film is too long! At times the picture comes to a complete stand-still. Did someone not hire an editor? It was so painfully slow, I wondered why I was even in this theatre.

This wasn't my idea of a Final Fantasy. (I still don't know where the title comes from.) I'm not sure I want to tell you what my Final Fantasy would be, and you probably don't want to know. But trust me, it would be more entertaining.

Sucks and Blows!

Film Facts

Cast
• Ming-Na
• Alec Baldwin
• Ving Rhames
• Steve Buscemi
• Peri Gilpin
• Donald Sutherland
• James Woods
• Keith David
• Jean Simmons
• Matt McKenzie
• Annie Wu

Directed by
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Motonori Sakakibara

Released in 2001

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Reviewed by Mongo