Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

Weak!

Looks like they have not learned their lesson since the first theatrical attempt at adapting the Final Fantasy Games series into a movie with 2001’s Final Fantasy:  The spirits within. I can understand why it took them  sixteen years to try and do something else after the that horrible attempt. Too bad they only produced another horrible attempt.

Kingsglaive works on the same premise as the Spirits Within. It’s a story that seems to work if your playing it as a  game not just watching it.

I can only imagine if I were a true die hard Final Fantasy fan, other than just someone vaguely familiar with the game, that would like the movie just a little more, maybe being able to point out the trivia would get me excited.

As a movie, there is a lot of amazing action sequences, like this cool war sequence at the beginning of the film, The heroes of the film do this thing where they toss their swords at something then teleport themselves to the place the blade is, kick ass.

The only problem is, getting to these action packed parts means having to bare though a poorly produce plot that’s easy enough to follow, but hard to get into. It was a series of characters that I could not get into.

Not even with the voice talents of Arron Paul and Sean Bean could I gather enough emotion to give a crap about anyone or anything in this movie. May have been a better movie if it was just one big action sequence.

Don’t watch the game play the game.