You are an observer here, of something beyond your experience and undestanding. If a weird red lion thing that talks, turns up and starts kicking ass and taking names, and the other characters just say he's an old friend, accept it and move on you don't need a biopic flashback, or a tell-all sit-me-down. I like that approach you get caught up in the mystery and confusion that all the characters are going through.
Watching the film is like being dropped into the middle of some grand saga, and having to put as much of the puzzle together as possible. There is a lot that isn't explicitly explained, and if you demand that it should be then you will probably be confused and irritated. I think though that if you pay attention, and accept what the film throws at you, it's quite easy to understand. I think it pays to be familiar with Role Playing Games in general knowledge of the genre kinda helps you grasp some of it better. This film is for the fans: "To those who loved this world once before and spent time with its friends, gather again and devote your time." Besides this ominous opening, the story was not very hard to follow, and Ihave never played a Final Fantasy game. The fights are fantastic and the magic is really cool! It's totally like a video-game in parts, with some amazing hand-to-hand combat in there. It is exclusively focused on being "cool" and "epic" leaving everything else to fall by the wayside. I put more than 100 hours in to the game back in 1997, and Advent Children is a struggle for me to watch. Non-linear storytelling at its worst, with flashy-but-vacuous fight scenes, and zero motivation for anyone's actions other than to invoke a navel-gazing sense of nostalgia.
CLOUD STRIFE ADVENT CHILDREN FLASHBACK MOVIE
I've never had that happen with a movie before. After long enough, it became hard for me to keep it all straight in my head, to the point where I lost track of what was a flashback and what was currently happening. There are so many that one flashback will interrupt another, and at one point, a character's cellphone seems to experience its own flashback. I am not exaggerating when I say almost every other scene in Advent Children is a flashback, either showing a scene from the original Final Fantasy VII video game, or something that happened off-screen earlier in the movie. The real culprit that destroys this movie is just how much it relies on flashbacks. Anime-style action like this can be done well, but this is like watching a child play with action figures. Mostly, this damages property more than it causes any real physical harm. Unfortunately, fights lack any impact - thin, wispy characters fly around environments totally weightless, somehow punching each other with enough force to send the recipient sailing across city blocks. Fight sequences are frequent and long, with the movie's back-to-back-to-back final battles taking up nearly a solid hour of the overall run time. They're just one-dimensional villains for the sake of our heroes having something to fight. They use "remnants" like it's some kind of group name, or a term for something that existed in the game. We're told they are "remnants," as if we're automatically supposed to know what that means. They literally materialize out of thin air, and that's all you get. some reason, I guess? Sephiroth had many motives in Final Fantasy VII, but Advent Children's Kadaj and crew don't get any back story.
Why do they want to bring about the end of the world? Because that's what Sephiroth wanted to do, and these guys want to continue his work for.
A new team of bad guys has emerged to finish what Sephiroth started back in the original game, and most of the movie is spent doing battle in order to stop them from bringing about the end of the world. Advent Children is two hours of manic fight sequences, innumerable flashbacks, and a plot that looks deep on the surface but is otherwise quite shallow. And if you did play Final Fantasy VII? You're also probably not going to know what's going on in this movie. If you didn't play Final Fantasy VII, you're not going to know what's going on in this movie.
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