Well, I liked it. It's an interesting, very good visually movie and the plot does hang together...

No plot details, but you may consider this a slight (very slight) spoiler, more just a tone giveaway.

If your a Barret/Red XVI/Cait Sith/Zack fan or whatever, dont hold your breath. This movie is centered on Cloud, Tifa, the Turks and only really Vincent gets a fair shot besides them. The others are in it, but... well, it's not their movie if you know what I mean.

Anyway, it looks good, it draws you in well and the direction is outstounding. It's EXTREMELY fast, takes a while to get going but the temp is really fast.
The new bad guys are intimidating and well drawn out, they may annoy you but there is a purpose.


All in all I'd say Advent Children ticks every box it's meant to be. It's a great straight to DVD movie. There was no point cinema relasing it, it's not got mass appeal and it's not THAT good, but compare it to most other straight to DVD movies (only the Disney squals come to mind at the moment) it blows them out of the water.

Enjoy it, but dont expect anything special besides just another adventure.