Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

The move follows the events of final Fantasy VII two years after the game ends. The story in the movie does actually feel a bit weak and slightly rushed, but it isn’t bad. The best part of the movie is the action and the presentation. The graphics and sound are among the best I have ever seen. Much of the music is remixed form the game, and the fighting themes are really action tense. The story is good, but as mentioned it feels a bit weak, but it don’t really mater that much, although a better story writing would have made the move even more awesome then it already is though.

The fighting cant bee described. They use dynamic angels and tense cuts that make you sit on the edge of your seat in ecstasy. Although the old characters from the game don’t play a major role except for cloud and partly Tifa, it’s nice to se them fight again and they al look great. The design is spot on and it still stays true to how you would imagine them. The Turks also play a big role, but not a that important one. Still, Reno is more or less the movies comic relief. Sadly, there is really little comedy in the movie, and only Reno and Loz’s cell phone will probably make you laugh.

We are also introduced to Clouds new sword, or swords, as he now wields 7 that are set into a special stand of the motorbike, but the swords can all combine into each other and be taken apart again in different ways. It doesn’t seem to directly affect how he uses the sword though. It’s a really cool idea and it looks really neat.

In all, the move is great, and fans of the game, or just general action fans will most likely love it. its way better ten Spirits Within, and it lives up to the hype quite well in my opinion. All the powerful moments and the way the movie was directed make it a joy to se and experience. The graphics are so beautiful that every still image will fell like a masterpiece and I'm seriously impressed with the fact that about 50% of the movie is filled with none stop action sequences. You would imagine that they would do some dragged out scenes as it would be easier to animate, but no, they did the movie with the action in mind. There is a reason it got delayed, and it was well worth it, although a bit more polished story would not hurt.

That said, the movie ties some things from the game well, and is a really worthy sequel to it.

Now when is the Final fantasy VI movie coming out?

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Here is the full story from Final Fantasy VII: Advent children. Written down by me (hence the fact that it sucks so much) Obvious spoilers is there, so read at your own risk.

Synopsis:

First we get to se what happened in the game, sort of like a recap for those who didn’t play the game. its not really important, as if you didn’t play the game you wont get some of the things anyways, but its kind of nice to se it anyway. We se some kids on the street of Midgar and learn that some people have a sickness called Geostigma.

When the actual movie begins we get to se what Cloud and Tifa have been up to after the game ended. They are taking care of Denzel and Marlene, and they have opened “Strife Delivery Service” so Cloud is now an errand boy. It doesn’t have anything to do with the story though, but it is fun to se what they have been up to. Cloud gets a message from Tifa, saying that Reno from the Turks wants to se him. He takes of on his motorbike, but is soon attacked by Kadaj’s gang, and they consist of Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo. The fight is really action packed, as they fight on their motorbikes at high speeds, using guns and swords, and Kadaj have summoned some monsters called Shadow Creepers that surrounds Cloud.

But just as they are about to defeat Cloud, they cease the attack and run of. So cloud head over to Healin Lodge to meet up with Reno. Rude from the Turls is also there as, well as a mysterious man in a wheelchair that has a hood over his head. e tells Cloud that he want Clouds power to rebuild the world, but Reno mess up and say they want to rebuild Shinra, so Cloud say he isn’t interested and leaves.

Tifa, looking for Cloud, arrives in the church with the flowers on the floor. Marlene, is with her. But cloud isn’t there. Back at the Turks place, some time after Cloud left, Kadaj is there and he have beaten up Reno and Rude and is talking about that he is looking for “mothers powers” for the “reunion”. Back at the church, Loz walks in and ask where “Mother” is, but Tifa says no one is there, so he says he want to play. Marlene runs to hide and Tifa putt on some leather gloves and starts to fight with Loz. He has an electric punch attachment on his arm, but Tifa is a martial arts expert so it becomes an intense fight and they are running all over the place and using all kinds of insane melee moves on each other. After a while, Tifa slams Loz against the floor and he appears to be defeated.

What happens next is that the music turns down and it gets quiet... and then we here “Victory theme” from the game. At first I was wondering what the heck they were doing and if they wanted to destroy the movie deliberately, but Loz smash away the debris on top of him and pick up his cell phone, that’s has the victory theme for ring tone and I start to laugh insanely.

Loz answers and it looks like someone in the other end isn’t happy. He has to get serious now. So he throws a bench at Tifa, and she smash it away, but he runs in fast as a lightning and zap her with his arm attachment until she is knocked out. Loz takes Marlene and some time later, Cloud gets to the Church and find Tifa unconscious. She awakes, but Cloud starts to fell some aches from his geostigma sickness and falls unconscious. He awakes in a bed later and Reno and Rude is there, as well as Tifa, still sleeping.

Back at the streets of Midgar, a girl comes up to Denzel who is sitting in a alley, and she says there are some people that has a cure for geostigma, so he follows her, and it appears that Kadaj is gathering kids with the geostigma disease.

Cloud is told about this by Rude who says they have headed for Forgotten Capital Ajit and Cloud decides to go to stop them and save the children. Kadaj walks into a pound of water and drinks from it, and tell the children, Denzel is amongst them, to follow his lead. At the same time, Cloud is on his motorbike going through the forest but falls into trance and sees Aeris who talks to him, but he soon wakes up and finds Kadaj’s gang shooting at him. In high speed, Cloud is racing towards them, but gets startled when all the children, Denzel amongst them, moves right in his way as they have fallen in trance after drinking the water. So Cloud falls of his bike to avoid crashing into the kids, and drops his sword while doing so. Kadaj walks up to him and hold his double blade sword against him, but Marlene that has also been kidnapped but never drank any water calls out to him, and as Kadaj looks at her he grabs for his sword and start to fight them.

They run through the forest and the fight is really dynamic. Kadaj’s gang have used Materia to become stronger, but Cloud manages to hold them of for a while. But as it starts to get really tough, none other then Vincent shows up to save him, flying through the forest in an elusive robe form, would be the best way to describe it. He fends of Kadaj and they run away. They talk for a while and Cloud eventually walks Marlene home.

Now we are in Midgar, where Loz and Yazoo have started a ruckus, looking for “mother” who they think is hidden under the monument at the town square, and they have the children with them. People gather around, but they summon some Shadow Creepers to drive them away. But Reno and Rude shows up, and gets asked if “mother” is there, but they say they have no idea where she is. Yazoo eventually gets Reno Pissed of and he charges at them with his trademark war-cry.

In an old damaged building not that far away, high above the ground, Kadaj is talking to the man in a wheelchair. It gets clear that Kadaj is looking for the remains of Jenova. He summons the huge dragon, Bahamut SIN in order to easier find “mother”. Bahamut appears and sweep down towards Midgar and lands on the monument. Reno run towards , but get so surprised that he accidentally knocks Rude with his baton. Tifa is there now as well, and tries to make Denzel snap out of his trance. Bahamut now charges up a big energy blast and fires at the monument, and the blast sends everyone flying.

After the smoke thins out, Reno and Rude gets up from the ground only to stand face to face with Loz and Yazoo, so they engage them in battle. There is some impressive fighting here, mainly as Turks fight with brute force. But they eventually get beaten when a large sign falls down and hits Rude in the head, only to have Reno fall after and land on him as well. They get up, and Reno steps on Rude’s sunglasses, and he gets mad but puts on a spare pair.

Back at the town square, Bahamut is still lose, but suddenly Barret shows up and starts to fire his arm gun at the dragon and after him, Red XIII charges in with Cait Sith on his back. They manages to knock it down, but it runs toward Barret, who gets saved by a big throwing star that flies through the air and cuts it. Yuffie has arrived as well. And not short thereafter, Cid arrives and fends of some Shadow Creepers that is attacking Tiffa Denzel. Also Vincent appears and joins the fight. Last of the people to join the party is Cloud who appears on his motorbike and from here on out it is basically a non-stop fight where everyone is running around the city, trying to defeat Bahamut SIN. The fight is intense and impossible to describe in detail.

At the same time, back where Kadaj is, the man in the wheelchair suddenly gets out of the chair and throws of his mantle to reveal his true identity. As expected, it is Rufus Shinra. In his hand he has a box, and Kadaj realise that it contains the remains of Jenova. But before he can do anything, Rufus throws it of the building and it is falling from the high building towards the ground.

Back at the city, the gang continues to fight Bahamut, and by getting some altitude boost from his team-mates, Cloud is sent flying high up in the air towards Bahamut SIN whom he now defeats in a single sword slash and Bahamut falls down and crash towards the city, and in the meantime, Kadaj is attacking Rufus, who doge and falls of the building down towards the box, and Kadaj jumps after while Rufus pulls out a gun and fires at him. Kadaj falls ahead and grasp for the box, but Rufus manages to hit it with a bullet and some of the liquid content falls out.

Kadaj lands and get on some motorbikes with Loz and Yazoo and the sets of. But Cloud races after and chase them up on a empty highway. The fight tha follows in one of the most high speed and insane action sequences I have ever seen and it has some really cool stuff in it, and a great soundtrack comes with it. After some intense action, it cuts to Reno and Rude who are ahead on the freeway holding some explosives. Cloud goes past them, but when Loz and Yazoo gets there, they run straight into the fireworks.

In the meantime, Kadaj is at the church with the flowers and realises that the box is empty. Cloud gets there and race through the front doors, but Kadaj blast a pillar and goes up to the floor above and blast Cloud with an energy attack but it miss and hit the floor with the flowers. Suddenly, a spring of water burst out of the ground and Kadaj seem to get hurt by the water and takes off. Cloud once again chase after him and when they meet up, a awesome remix of the “Jenova theme” starts and they begin to fight.

The rest of Clouds theme appears in Cid’s airship, but they talk a while, and decide to let him fight his fight alone. The battle between Cloud and Kadaj continues with some impressive sword fights and jumping around the deserted city of Midgar. Eventually, Cloud sends Kadaj flying, he drops his sword and is hanging at a ravine with one hand and he has the box in the other, with cloud standing on the edge with his sword towards him. With no other way out, Kadaj throws the box away and jumps after it, and absorbs the Jenova material inside it. The box wasn’t empty after all. He falls and eventually lands far below, Cloud who has jumped down after him swings at him with his sword but he blocks it with a flash and change appearance.

Sephiroth is now standing eye to eye with cloud, reincarnated in Kadaj’s body with help of the Jenova materia. The music track “one winged angel stars” and Sephiroth send Cloud flying. They stand up and clash against each other with their drawn swords with “one winged angel” in the background. The fight itself cant be described in words. it has to be seen, and it is something of the most impressive I have ever seen. The surrounding occasionally get cut to pieces as they clash, and eventually Sephiroth has cloud trapped standing on his sword that is stuck in the wall of a high tower. He then slashes at the top and has debris fall down towards Cloud, whu manages to cut his way through the rocks and debris, but hiding behind it is Sephiroth that manages to weaken Cloud enough, and when they land, Cloud gets thrown into the wall as he is so tired, and Sephiroth stabs his sword at him.

He penetrate Clouds right shoulder, but Cloud, out of pure willpower takes the sword out and put it into the wall behind him. He then engages Sephiroth with his ultimate sword attack, attacking with all parts of his sword. Sephiroth is defeated, and a angel wing appears on his back that he wraps around himself. The wing disappears and left behind in Kadaj. He has no power, and when he tries to attack Cloud he trips and end up falling but Cloud hold him.

it starts to rain, and the raid affects Kadaj in such a way that he starts do disappear and break apart into tiny green light fragments. He disperse and back in the city, people seem to be healed of geostigma by the rain. Cloud stands still in the raid, facing the sky and closes his eyes.

A gun shot flies past and hits cloud. Behind him stand Loz and Yazoo, and it was Yazoo who fired the bullet. Both of them have also started to disappear, but Cloud arises on weak legs form the severs wound, but manage to jump at them with his sword in the air just as they charge up a energy blast against him. The result is a huge explosion that swallows the three of them. Cloud is floating in a completely white surrounding, and just after that, he is standing in the pound of water created in the church, surrounded by children.

Clouds old team mates are also in the church, and as he looks at them, he can se further behind them, a girl in pink outfit who is starting t walk away towards the churches door that appears in a bright white light. She stops and turn towards him and smiles. Behind her is Zack who waves calmly at Cloud. Both of term turns around and walks into the white light and eventually they disappear.