FILM REVIEW - FINAL FANTASY
Visually very pretty effects, plot cobblers, script, a serious
heap of tosh, looks like a long game of how many cliches can we fit in one film
- answer - lots and technobabble so severe you expect Jon Pertwee
to leap in shouting Reverse the Polarity etc
The heroine looks good, with much hype on CGI effects on her hair so you end up watching it to see if it was worth the 2 million, - loved
critic Jonathon Ross's review
when he said any actress and a bottle of Wash & Go would have done the job.
The plot is seriously confusing and confused, often to the point
of being simply unintelligible, the film cribs heavily on the Gaia
hypothesis of James Lovelock and the film's main boffin character seems to talk of it as though he thought of it all along
Some of the gung ho heroism is straight out of any Vietnam buddy movie, at its worst when one guy gets injured in a fierce chase battle and asks to be
left behind while the others run for it, so they happily leave him with a gun.
Some dialogue is awful, such as with a long dull as dishwater council
chamber scene explaining Gaia to anyone who never saw Edge Of Darkness, and
read Lovelock, and some lines make you go, 'huh?' - Talking of the often
impressive spectral alien invaders, known as spirits, someone says, 'the big
ones might be their elephants and whales...;' to which someone adds, why
would they bring a elephants and whales all the way across space? a
question never really answered. The film finishes with a gooey nothing ever
really dies reincarnation message (I think that's what it is anyway, but I had ceased caring by
then.) I had thought of seeing this in big screen glory if it had proved any good, but
I'm glad I didn't waste my money.
Arthur Chappell
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