Hironobu Sakaguchi’s 2001 sci-fi thriller, now out on high-definition Blu-ray disc, is a paradox--it's at once exhilarating yet exhausting, thrilling yet boring, masterful yet banal.
Its apocalyptic story of a ruined Earth overcome with soul-eating monsters is hardly new, but since “Fantasy," upon its release seven years ago, featured such an enormous leap forward in computer animation, it was impossible to stop watching it even though it was a pleasure to stop listening to it.
That still is true. Nothing here is ever as important as the animation, and it shows. The film, which Sakaguchi based on the video game he created, is convoluted, cliched, choppy and soulless.
Watching it, you hunger for something more, a richer, deeper story filled with stronger characters that would rise to the level of the film’s countless technical breakthroughs and turn “Fantasy” into a new classic.
The potential was there, but it didn't happen.
Rated PG-13. Grade: C+
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