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It’s been almost four years since I first saw Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and wrote my review for Amazon.com. After seeing the recent complete version on Blu-Ray, I understanding I’d arrive support and offer my thoughts only to look that my new review was transferred over from the DVD edition. That review was written at a different time, before the DVD was even released in the States. I belief about going benefit and revising it, but that’d be changing the past. What I will add are my thoughts on the fresh Blu-Ray edition.

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Firstly, if you’re looking at the Blu-Ray edition, wondering if it’s a expedient select, it definitely is. It’s a considerable first-rate version to the modern, both in sigh and clarity. Obviously, with the Blu-Ray the record quality and sound quality have been considerably increased. There’s a few miniature nitpicks, such as a brilliant, aliasing quandary that pops up every now and then (The Resident Evil: Degeneration Blu-Ray had a similar predicament) and it can be distracting. But the details are so noteworthy clearer now that it looks like a modern movie.

Additionally, novel express has been added to this release. A lot of times, “director’s cuts” can be detrimental to the film and the pacing, but in the case of Advent Children, I appreciated the fresh thunder. I occupy there’s an additional 26 minutes added and these parts delve into the Geostigma and the origins of some of the characters as well as an extended fight between Cloud and Sephiroth. Overall, I believe the additions are useful and befriend originate the movie more of a movie and less an extended prick scene. It’s unbiased too abominable that it didn’t approach with a playable demo of Final Fantasy XIII like it did in Japan…

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On to my fresh review as it was abet in 2005:

Cloud, Tifa, Sephiroth, Marlene, Barret, Vincent. The names could go on. This series reigns in many Final Fantasy fans’ minds as being the best. Though in new years a lot of people roll their eyes and say its over-rated (and it might be), for me, and for a lot of fans, Final Fantasy was a turning point in the genre not only in terms of graphics and presentation but also in sage. I have been playing video games and RPGs since the very first NES. Final Fantasy VII was the first game that made me conclude and go, wait when did a video game become something more than objective pushing buttons?

Now we have the official sequel, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Advent Children is basically a fancy stamp written for the fans of VII. Those who did not invest 40, 50, 60+ hours into the game will probably have no interest in it. But those who were petrified when (should I even say spoiler? ) Sephiroth murders Aeris, who have a deep connection to the characters, and over the 40-60+ hours grew so attached to them that to this day they collected plot fan art or gawk for that elusive draw to procure Aeris support in game(it doesn’t exist, by the device), this movie will mean something.

AC is a blooming CG movie taking residence two years after the events of FFVII. While the ending of VII was climactic and exhilarating, providing a resolution of sorts to the people of Midgar, it did not provide a resolution, elated or not, for Cloud. In fact, it left him empty and afflict as we accept in the beginning of Advent Children. What AC does is do Cloud’s legend. Another reviewer here made a comment that he liked FFVII’s ending. I do too, don’t gain me snide. But the one thing it didn’t do was ruin Cloud’s record. For the length of the game, you have a deeply personal epic surrounded by the world anecdote and while the world got its ending, the people enthusiastic did no, melancholy or not. As I said, AC ends Cloud’s record with a bang. And it is damn well worth the wait.

I don’t deem it would be proper of me to talk about what happens in AC. Share of the fun and surprise is to search for how well it fits together, brings memories of the video game and works to beget an emotional core. I will sustain the review as spoiler free as possible because I know I’m tired of reading reviews where people stick in something that can kill the whole movie.

For those who didn’t play or behold FFVII, this movie will not have worthy resonance since it’s basically for the fans, both die-hard and casual. Those who loved FFVII will more than likely esteem this movie. AC is basically an action movie and the action is spectacular although the boring motion was customary (while effectively) a slight noteworthy. The sword play, the battles and the action is all directed with style oozing everywhere. The characters are all appealing exceedingly well and the animators did a tremendous job in making PS1 characters into spectacular CG. The musical come by varies for me from being proper to honest okay. By far, the best moments are ones I can’t talk about aurally for alarm of spoiling surprises. Needless to say, the music is at its greatest when it brings in hints of FFVII, the video game.

There are a lot of connections to both VII and the Final Fantasy series as a whole. From moogle dolls to The Turks, the game oozes both FFVII and FF; although I was disappointed in not seeing any chocobos, there are a few moments that made up for it. One in particular revolves around the games Raze Battle Theme. Hilarious, laugh out loud scene. There are some minor annoyances. A couple of the scenes felt episodic and not connected. Some scenes were directed very well and lead into each other or intercut between each other. But there are a couple scenes that stand out because they didn’t feel attached to what was going on. In fact, it felt as if they were slash scenes from a video game. Did this detract from the movie? Not in the least, but its there nonetheless.

What surprised me the most with this movie is that it wasn’t done to milk the saga. I mean, of course its there to get money, and FFVII is a broad method to do it because of fans’ adore for it. Anything in the business world is made around making money. But what I mean exactly is best represented in FFX-2. I am one who did not derive FFX-2 at all spicy. In fact it is the only FF game I gave up on. It felt like it was a map of milking FFX for a puny more money while the wait for FFXII kept getting longer and longer. However, AC is so intrinsically related to VII that it has a heart and emotion that I haven’t seen in many movies released this year. I felt chills from the very opening moments as the narrator explained some of the events from VII and we stare a flashback of Sephiroth standing in front of flames. And that was honest the commence of the thrills; there are scenes both emotional and thrilling to be found throughout the 1 hour 40 minutes of the film. And what jubilant me above all else was that Cloud’s fable finally received a perfect resolution.

I assume most fans have been hoping and wishing that Aeris would return and I deem the creators give a expansive retort to this in this movie. I won’t spoil the ending, I won’t speak you who does and doesn’t return. But I will instruct you the resolution is damn well awesome and probably the most satisfying ending to what is by far many people’s accepted (if clichéd) choice for the Final Fantasy series. I do need to construct a plea and I apologize for it, but if you downloaded this movie (like a positive reviewer did *cough*) please relieve it when it comes out here in the States and win it. We need to point to befriend to Square-Enix that this is the kind of sequel we want to peek. They spent a long time and a lot of money making a movie that is grunt to DVD here in the states. We need to return the favor and aid it.

Square-Enix, my hats off to you for handling this with flair, tenderness and sympathy for the characters.

About the Film:

I followed Advent Children closely from the first time it was announced some time in 2004. I am a die-hard Final Fantasy fan, and although I would have preferred the sequel to one of the greatest games of all time (Final Fantasy VII) to be, well, a game, I was contented to recognize the legend continued in a medium with slightly more widespread appeal. Although the writers made an pain to allow this movie to stand on its absorb, people who have played the game (and remember the set and characters) will certainly come by considerably more out of it.

About This Release:

In production since about 2006, this version of the film, subtitled “Complete” is the Japanese equivalent of a director’s prick. In addition to a unique high-definition transfer of the film several scenes have been extended or reworked and original scenes have been added to further round out the legend and provide more visual flash. It may not seem like powerful while watching it, but in total the film has been extended by fully a third taking it from 90 minutes to 2 hours running time.

Visuals:

Although edifying, I have to say I was expecting more from the High-Definition release of this movie. My first misgiving is with the inconsistent visual quality. The newly added scenes are generally presented with the kind of keen visual detail that HD enthsiasts have approach to put a question to. The older scenes, while clearly providing more detail than the DVD release, are missing the clarity that right HD material is obedient of, often appearing fuzzy or out of focus. It is not generally noticeable, but it does become an definite annoyance in a couple of scenes. Arguably this could have been done on purpose, adding a “fuzzy” filter for ambiance, but I doubt they would have intentionally added upscaling artifacts which are exhibit in this film. The most critical instance I can win is during Tifa’s scenes, particularly in the church; the aliasing on her hair is more reminiscent of a DVD being upscaled to 1080p than of a fresh render done in 1080p.

Little touches have been added to further “sell” the quasi-realism that this film is striving to finish. During battles characters’ faces net dirty, during one scene flecks of dust in the air created tiny shimmers.

Story:

While the same fable is being told, the added/extended scenes and to an extent the visual enhancements do add a different slant on the situation of Advent Children. While the main points of the narrative remain unchanged, the place is made clearer and positive elements which seemed random or unimportant select on novel meaning.

[Spoiler alert!]

For example, during a scene a girl carrying a stuffed moogle comes up to Denzel and holds out her hand for him to follow. In the current DVD release, this is really all we search for of her, but in the “Complete” release we come by to contemplate an earlier scene that reveals she is really trying to compose an apology to Denzel for being coarse before.

Denzel plays a grand more prominent role in this version. It was never sure to me what it was that Cloud was so busy doing before I saw this release, but in this version it is revealed that he was out looking for a cure to the Geostigma so he could benefit Denzel.

In the DVD release, the Geostigma seemed like shrimp more than a charcoal colored rash that slowly killed people. In this version it is worthy more disagreeable, causing sores that ooze sticky dusky sludge and induces violent convulsions and vomiting of the same dark sludge.

[End spoilers]

I’ll leave the spoilers at that, but I’ve only revealed a couple of the dozen or so situation augmentations that this version of the film brings to the table. Most of them gave me that “Ooooh that’s what they meant. I regain it now.” feeling. Maybe I’m honest dull, but a lot of these things weren’t determined to me in the film’s new presentation.

Sound:

This film really benefits from the expanded HD audio – more so if you have the equipment to properly decode the newer HD audio formats, but even when down sampled to Dolby Digital, the sound is richer and has worthy fewer compression artifacts. Some of the music has been remixed slightly and it seems like I heard one or two additional compositions. Many of the songs were written to lock in with obvious scenes, and when the scenes were extended, so was the music. I was very impressed with how seamless it all seemed.

Voice acting is one of those things, like pizza toppings, that nobody seems to be able to agree on. I have never been terribly picky about scream acting, but since everyone is different I’ll attempt to provide some frame of reference for my understanding. My thought of unpleasant inform acting is the Devil May Yell anime, and my concept of gracious command acting is Cowboy Bebop. I believe the affirm acting is marvelous in Advent Children. I was particularly joyful to hear the voices chosen for the ancillary characters like Barret, Cait Sith, Red XIII, Yufie, Vincent and Cid. But the actors chosen for main characters Cloud, and Tifa were very beneficial matches for what I imagined the characters from the game would sound.

Extras:

This review is of the Japanese release, and frankly I did not really care enough about the extras to check them out. I watched them once when the DVD release came out and can’t be bothered to do it again. This does near with an additional inspiring “episode” about Denzel. For those of you who want to know absolutely everything there is to know about how a movie was made, you will not be disappointed with the depth.

For me the true attraction in the extras was the inclusion of the Final Fantasy XIII playable demo. Since the PS3 is state free, the Japanese release is very import qualified. (If you don’t mind that it is all in Japanese) The U.S. release mentions a Final Fantasy XIII “preview”. I don’t know if that means that it will be a demo, or an extended trailer. It would be a shame if it was the latter.

Final Thoughts:

I wish all “director’s crop” releases could enhance the fresh presentation as well as Advent Children Complete does. The extra footage catapulted this already expansive movie firmly into the category of awesome. If you didn’t luxuriate in the first release because you unbiased didn’t “catch it” then this release may be fair what you need to achieve the pieces together as many of the more vague areas of the position are clarified. If you loved the first one, then you’ll worship this one even more. About the only thing it is missing is the ability to contemplate the current release version of the film. Personally that isn’t an boom for me but it would have been a nice addition.

Although this review is for the Japanese release, I doubt distinguished will change in the final U.S. version. My reasoning is that the the DVD release was nearly identical for the two territories, and there are only two months between Blu-ray releases.
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