Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Another is because there really isn't much of a story to "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", so the need to promote and promote the special effects is an absolute.
Understand: There is a story in "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", an effort superficially lifted from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, calling forth the works of Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury. But the story is so watered down, thanks to the hack work of Hollywood screenwriters, it is almost non-existent and hardly tolerable. Which is why the special effects, the hyperbole surrounding the SFX, are so necessary.
The story (as is): The story is named after a series of video games. (If you play these games until you go blind you know this, but there are some who don't, so explanation is needed). The Planet Earth, 2065. Humans live under energy shields, away from aliens, who prowl the world, in pursuit of the humans. Thus, a simplistic conflict.
Of course someone is needed to fight the aliens and their would-be domination of the world. In this case it is a heroine: Dr. Aki Ross (Ming-Na). A leader, she is. She leads a band of futuristic warriors called Deep Eyes, who live to defend the Earth.
Now how does this group defend the world, the survivors of the world? They venture out from under the aforementioned shields, to do battle with the aforementioned aliens.
A word or two on the aliens: They are transparent monsters who can infect humans with a virus. Once they do this the humans are doomed.
Naturally Aki wants to prevent this, and believes she can do so by channeling the eight 'spirit waves' of Earth. ('Gaia', the planetary soul, for the uninformed.) But she can't, predictably, do it alone. Which is where the aforementioned Gray Edwards (Alec Baldwin) comes in. He is the leader of the Deep Eyes troop. There is the aged teacher, Dr. Sid (Donald Sutherland), who provides stiff humor and cliched wisdom. There are the team members, including the pilot, Neil (Steve Buscemi), the fighters, Ryan (Ving Rhames), and Jane Proudfoot (Peri Gilpin).
And, of course, the reason for all these characters: Fighting the forces of evil, which include: General Hein (James Woods), who wants to shoot now and ask questions later.
I won't spend any more time on the story. If you can follow to this point you may be able to follow the rest of the story (should you actually go
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