After the population gets infected with an incurable disease, the faith and trust of Cloud, an ex-warrior who fought in an epic battle to defeat Sephiroth, are at their lowest. Also infected, he must find a way to get rid of all bad thoughts and save the world once again as new enemies arrive and are up to no good. Set two years after the crash of Shin-Ra company, this movie presents the adventures of Cloud and his friends in their attempt to eliminate the enemies who threaten the planet while also trying to fix his mental issues.It's a movie which you can tell from the beginning that it's targeted to a small audience. It assumes that the viewer already knows about the characters and their past adventures and doesn't even bother to at least try and explain the basics. Although it is visually stunning, with great sound and special effects, it features a mediocre plot which simply drags it down more than it would have deserved. You can have the greatest visuals, the best universe and the best sound to impress anybody who looks at it, but from my point of view, the most important part of any movie, especially when it comes to animations, is by far the story. And this is exactly where this movie fails, big time actually. Besides the disappointment that it does not have almost any link to the story from the game and that it doesn't move a muscle to explain a bit what is going on, it simply lets the viewer down in any single way in terms of plot. It's linear, predictable, full of repetitive and even boring fight scenes which don't do it any good. And, as the entire movie, the finale is easy to predict and gives almost no satisfaction because of this.It's a shame that the producers decided to focus so much on the visuals, which I will say again that are simply astonishing, and go along with a mediocre and very easy to guess plot. It is apparently intended only for hard-core fans of the series and this, in my opinion, is a big letdown.

I am being generous giving this abomination a 2. It's getting 2 because the characters were portrayed more or less like in the game (which was, for the most part, a well written fiction), and the graphics were nice.Everything else about this film is wrong. Like with reviewing all terrible things, it's hard to know where to begin.1. Localization is BAD. Let's start with my title: "Dilly Dally, Shilly Shally". This is a symptom of a terrible localization. You'd think that after the original game's problematic localization that at least THIS would be up to scratch... but no. I won't waste your time telling you what the Japanese was meant to convey—just Google it and find out. The nonsensical phrase above indicates the localization team was either on drugs or mentally deficient. The whole localization is poor. It's actually a slight improvement to watch this film in Japanese with English subs. I say 'slight' because that won't fix the crap script, plot, pacing, or anything else, sadly.2. The plot makes absolutely no sense. Part of the reason is that Final Fantasy VII is a massive game with a huge story and, any sequel, even if well scripted, would likely need to be three hours long to tell a coherent tale. No effort was attempted. I watched the "Complete" version of this film and timed the amount of scenes dedicated to meaningless, out of control, and totally implausible battle sequences— it came to around 1/3 of the film. When you see things like this, you should instantly be aware that the writers are compensating for a lack-luster story. In this case, they are also appealing to FF7 fanboys, who will buy anything Final Fantasy as long as it has cool graphics. Square Enix has churned out a lot of Sequel-Prequel cash-ins since 1997. And fans just keep on biting.3. The pacing is dire. The film is so busy trying to disguise its short-comings with battle sequences that it forgets to tell a story or have a proper narrative. No sooner are your characters in a setting where some meaningful dialogue can take place than something happens to thrust you into another coma inducing battle sequence.4. The film is written like it is a game. Sigh... The genres are completely different, but some morons at Square Enix (including some of the original staff) thought that it would be a good idea to use game elements in a film. As a result, physics, gravity, logic, and reason are thrown out of the window. Characters are smashed into walls at 100 mph without a scratch... Look, I'm getting fed up with this review already. Just like the film, it's boring me. Needless to say, if you are intelligent enough to understand why believability matters to a fiction, you are too intelligent to watch this insulting film. In the game, battle elements are often treated as non-story elements because that's desirable—a player uses logic to decide how to interpret the battle in the wider scheme of things. The story in the game maintained the suspension of disbelief and didn't go too far, too often. This pile of rubbish doesn't care. Unfortunately, I have had the misfortune of debating this issue on a fan forum, and the overwhelming majority agreed that logic doesn't matter and that any and all things that happen in a story are acceptable. Little wonder, then, that these same people praise and defend this garbage.5. Apart from Cloud (who is now an emo), the characters were well designed and acted like their game counterparts. Unfortunately, that's where the similarities end. The game versions had proper motivations and lengthy conversations. This film just wants to get you to the next battle sequence. It doesn't help that the fanboy servicing required numerous retcons (like dead characters returning - itself a sign of lazy, crap writing) to take place, and for every established former character to make an appearance, no matter the justification.I am one of the biggest FF7 fans. I have recently finished a complete relocalization for the original game, found here: http://goo.gl/QBrX7B. But unlike some fans, I am not deluded by fanboyism. I know the short comings of the game and of this movie (if you can call it that). This film was made for the sole purpose of exploiting mindless fanboys - to make a quick buck. And on that front, it worked. If you aren't familiar with the game, I dread to think how much worse this film will be for you.This film is an ABSOLUTE example of what NOT TO DO.

This movie was pretty cool. It had some really awesome action scenes, but they obviously did not have realistic physics in mind when making them. I mean, it looked nice when watching it, but people could practically fly with how long they stayed in the air after jumping. Also, everyone seems impervious to landing incredibly long distances. In that scene where everybody was launching Cloud up higher and higher to reach the monster (one of the worst physics scene in the movie), he defeated the monster and fell about a mile down and just landed silently on a platform like it was just a few feet.Also, where did the talking cat dude and the wolf come from? Where did that whole group come from? They kinda appeared out of nowhere. They weren't mentioned any time in the movie before the big monster fight... That cat dude did not receive enough screen time for how weird he was. He was a tiny cat guy riding a talking wolf, and they just have him like it's a normal thing.Other than that, it was an amazing movie. The animation was phenomenal. The acting...well, I don't really know. It's hard to know if Japanese actors are bad or not because they talk so differently. Anyway, I had no complaints about that. I recommend this movie to people who either like anime and/or like over-the-top action movies :D

To start off,I, like most people who will watch this movie am a huge ff7 fan. Got the game in 5th grade and was the first game i truly was addicted to, spending all my free time glued to the screen. Since then I have played it through more times than I can count, never getting old. So when I heard about this movie before it came out I was more than excited. I waited and waited, and when I finally saw it, well I couldn't believe it. There really was no point in making this movie. The three stooges brothers were idiotic and annoying, spitting out one liners and talking about their mother like retarded children the entire movie. While it was nice to see some of my favorite game characters on the big screen, it felt like they were just there because they are the most famous of the ff series characters. 50 minutes in all the characters randomly show up for the first time and work together to defeat the idiotic trio. There is no real plot, no real character development, no depth at all. Just robotic characters that do "cool" stylish fighting to make fan boys happy. I am extremely disappointed by this film. There was no reason to make this, it is not an ending for FF7, it does not answer any questions fans had, it just took our money and bandwidth and laughed at us for believing there could actually be a great final fantasy movie. And worst of all, they had to use the characters from the best FF game, which in reality makes the movie worse. Sorry but I cant just give it 10 stars due to the fact it has ff7 in the name. Any true fan who has a brain that functions correctly will be disappointed by this movie. FF7 is a classic, a masterpiece, and I hope future generations aren't afraid to try it due to this awful, stupid movie.