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Overview
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Release Date:
11 July 2001 (USA)
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Tagline:
Unleash a new reality more
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. full summary | add synopsis
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5 nominations
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(28 articles)
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Ming-Na | ... | Doctor Aki Ross (voice) | |
| Alec Baldwin | ... | Captain Gray Edwards (voice) | |
| Ving Rhames | ... | Ryan (voice) | |
| Steve Buscemi | ... | Neil (voice) | |
| Peri Gilpin | ... | Jane (voice) | |
| Donald Sutherland | ... | Dr. Sid (voice) | |
| James Woods | ... | General Hein (voice) | |
| Keith David | ... | Council Member #1 (voice) | |
| Jean Simmons | ... | Council Member #2 (voice) | |
| Matt McKenzie | ... | Major Elliot (voice) | |
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| Matt Adler | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| Steve Alterman | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| David Arnott | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| Andrea Baker | ... | Additional Voices (voice) (as Andrea Taylor) | |
| Cathy Cavadini | ... | Additional Voices (voice) (as Catherine Cavadini) | |
| Lanei Chapman | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| Vicki Davis | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| Judi M. Durand | ... | Additional Voices (voice) (as Judi Durand) | |
| Greg Finley | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| Jack Fletcher | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| Julia Fletcher | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| Barbara Harris | ... | Additional Voices (voice) (as Barbara Iley) | |
| David McCharen | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| Tracy Metro | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| David Michie | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| Richard Penn | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
| David Randolph | ... | Additional Voices (voice) | |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Fainaru fantaji (Japan)
Final Fantasy (USA) (working title)
Final Fantasy: The Movie (USA) (working title)
Gaia: Final Fantasy (USA) (original script title)
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Final Fantasy (USA) (working title)
Final Fantasy: The Movie (USA) (working title)
Gaia: Final Fantasy (USA) (original script title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence.
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Runtime:
106 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:12 |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #37629) |
Malaysia:U |
Japan:PG-12 |
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
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Due to the poor performance of the film at the box office, Square Pictures announced its "retirement" from the film business in October 2001. The studio did, however, go on to produce the short film Final Flight of the Osiris (2003) in a similar realistic CGI style to Final Fantasy, which played in theaters before Dreamcatcher (2003) and was released as the first of a series of short films set in the Matrix on DVD entitled The Animatrix.
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Goofs:
Continuity: 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.
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Quotes:
[Aki and Gray are standing in a giant crater, above which is a huge phantom]
Capt. Gray Edwards: This is not a good place to be.
[Looks down and sees swirling blue energy beneath them]
Capt. Gray Edwards: That's not what I think it is, is it?
Aki: Yes-it's Gaia.
Capt. Gray Edwards: This is definitely not a good place to be.
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Capt. Gray Edwards: This is not a good place to be.
[Looks down and sees swirling blue energy beneath them]
Capt. Gray Edwards: That's not what I think it is, is it?
Aki: Yes-it's Gaia.
Capt. Gray Edwards: This is definitely not a good place to be.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#26.4)" (2001)
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Soundtrack:
The Dream Within
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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.