Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 2005

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Director's Cut 2005

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 2005 Synopsis:

An ex-mercenary is forced out of isolation when three mysterious men kidnap and brainwash the city's children afflicted with the Geostigma disease. Two years after the events in "Final Fantasy VII", a disease called 'Seikon-Shoukougun', or 'Geostigma', is spreading through the planet. This disease is believed to have been caused by the body fighting off foreign material that invaded the body two years earlier, at the end of "Final Fantasy VII". Guilt-ridden and haunted by his past, ex-SOLDIER Cloud Strife has decided to live a secluded, solitary life away from his friends while maintaining "Strife's Delivery Service", whose headquarters is located in Tifa Lockheart's bar, the Seventh Heaven. Tifa's bar serves as an orphanage for children stricken with Geostigma. Here, Tifa keeps an eye on Barret's six-year-old daughter, Marlene, while Barret searches the planet for an alternative energy source to the Planet's energy, Mako. One day, Cloud receives a phone call from the former Shinra, Inc. president, Rufus, asking him for protection from a mysterious man named Kadaj. Kadaj, in the meantime, along with his brothers Loz and Yazoo, ...

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 2005 Description:

Genre: Animation | Action
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385700/
Size: 850.94 MB
Quality: 720p
Resolution: 1280*720
Frame Rate: 23.976 fps
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Run Time: 2hr 6 min

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 2005 Review:

The director's cut, Advent Children Complete, received an overall 4.5 out of 5 by Blu-ray.com's Dustin Somner, who argued that the "plot is emotionally dense, the action is explosively over-the-top, and the world in which the story enfolds is rich with creativity." Somner highly recommended the Blu-ray to people who had already seen the film and fans of Final Fantasy VII, while non-fans would do best to rent it first; "I'd remind you to consider the near-perfect audio/video quality and perhaps take a leap of faith in adding the disc to your collection." In contrast to the original release, Joystiq's Andrew Yoon found Advent Children Complete a better film, feeling it was more accessible to people who had not played Final Fantasy VII. Yoon also felt that the new scenes helped give more depth to Cloud's development, to the point of "humanizing." Nevertheless, he found that Complete contained some flaws not present in the original version, such as the pacing of scenes that made the plot difficult to follow. DVD Talk's Todd Douglass Jr. stated that Complete was "the best version of the film" due to its audio quality, the new scenes, and the expansion of Cloud's battle against Sephiroth. He still called the bonus features disappointing however, claiming the label "Complete" was misleading. However, he found the new OVA (On the Way to a Smile - Episode: Denzel) and the trailer of Final Fantasy XIII to be "welcome additions." Kotaku writer AJ Glasser spoofed the director's cut version in an article called "Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete in 15 Minutes", claiming that the director's cut failed to explain aspects of the film that were not explained in the original version.

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 2005 Box Office Report:

On its first day of release, over 100,000 Blu-ray copies of Advent Children Complete were sold in Japan. During its initial week, the Blu-ray was #2 on the bestseller list, with 274,774 units sold. During 2009, the regular version of Advent Children Complete sold 49,000 units in Japan, ranking second in the category "Animation/Special Effects Blu-ray Discs" from Oricon's survey "2009's Top-Selling Blu-ray Discs in Japan (Overall)." It ranked eighth in the category "Overall Blu-ray Discs, by Yen" with 310 million yen (US$3.4 million) sold in 2009. Gaming sites Gamasutra and Kotaku cited Advent Children Complete as one of the main reasons why sales of the video game console PlayStation 3 radically increased during the film's first week of release.