Reviews

My philosophy. A movie has to have a great ending. It is the ending of the movie which makes or breaks it. A dull movie with a great ending can redeem it to legendary status. However, a movie that's intriguing and captivating with an ending that is poor will ruin the entire movie.

One such movie is Next starring Nicolas Cage.

Because of the main character's ability to see 2 minutes ahead in time EXCEPT when experiencing the future with a certain young lady, this made the plot a little confusing. It was difficult to tell what was happening in 'real time' and what has happening 'two minutes ahead'.

I watched this movie right to the end, expecting something explosive or at least something thought-provoking to come out of it.

However, I found the ending to be akin to " ... and then he woke up and it was all a dream". it made me want to throw something at the screen or demand my money back - what an injustice! When you watch an interesting movie with a bad ending it makes you feel CHEATED. ROBBED. MADE A TOTAL FOOL OF. DISSATISFIED. The dissatisfaction being that you were misled into watching something that was incomplete with a stupid unthought out ending tacked on.

Wow what a waste of time playing this game was. It is not worthy of the title Final Fantasy. Even my least favourite Final Fantasy game had some redeeming features, but this had NOTHING. The background music, which should have at least lent something to the atmosphere, was a type of inane and unmemorable synth-pop which just bubbled endlessly throughout most of the game; this immediately had me worried.

The character continuity it appears was not carried over from Final Fantasy 10. I mean, what the heck happened to Yuna? Yuna, the formerly serene, slightly naieve Summoner, seemed to have had a personality bypass and was replaced by a moronic cutesy hyper-kid you'd imagine would be into boys, cheer-leading, make-up, Spice Girls, pink fluffy things, and bubblegum – or in this case Spheres.

And whilst we're talking of character continuity the fact that Wakka and Lulu were having a baby together had me totally baffled. For one, he was her dead ex's brother. Two, there was never any real spark/connection between them in Final Fantasy 10 So hearing him say "Yah, I'm gonna be a daddy!" (or whatever dialogue it was he used), just made me go "Huh?!" It was almost as though someone just threw the idea in at the last minute. And the irony is that even though this 'couple' were having a baby together there was STILL no connection between them, they barely spoke to each other let alone anything else.

I felt that the plot from from Final Fantasy 10 wasn't carried over successfully and this resulted in a mess of ideas flung together to produce hours of disappointing gameplay.

The Leblanc syndicate 'villains' were an extremely irritating addition to the game; they were the kind of villain you'd expect to find in a wacky 'cartoon caper' and this just didn't fit the whole genre of Final Fantasy.

I found the gimmicky dress sphere/garment grid system childish – it reminded me of something you'd aim at girls into Bratz dolls – you just couldn't take it seriously.

For me FFX-2 was seriously flawed. I feel had this been a standalone game with 3 random female characters which had nothing to do with Final Fantasy, it could've been marketed at a genre who would've appreciated it more. However, to label it Final Fantasy 10-number-TWO and then turn into a Charlie's Angels venture was a big mistake, and left a number of die hard Final Fantasy fans feeling short-changed.

I only ever write a review on something if it was spectacularly awful or so mind-blowingly good it's out of this solar system. On this occasion, the former applies. I have just wasted a notable portion of my time watching this snooze-fest. I am hugely disappointed that this movie turned out to be nothing, in my opinion, than an episode of rhetoric mumbo jumbo.

I liken it to the a Kings New Clothes scenario - everyone else can see it's supposed finery but all I see is nothing - like a piece of artwork that everyone's been raving about; you feel you SHOULD like it but you just can't.

The movie was, at times, slightly confusing, clumsy, and erratic. Although the pace was swift, it was nonetheless an uninspiring journey through a difficult plot which was executed poorly.

The ending was long and drawn out; the best bit being when one of the Hugh Jackman characters (apologies for not remembering which one - they all merged into one after a while) sprouted fauna from his body - and that was only because the special effects were interesting.

This movie was a challenge to watch with little reward at the end.

This movie is S-L-O-W. Spent most of the movie actually waiting for it to 'begin'.

The setting was bleak, the script was bleak, the cinematography was bleak, the plot was bleak, the budget was low (not that all low budget movies are bad, but this one had no redeeming features).

The plot was more consumed with a vengeful, slightly deranged hunter than the actual Wendigo which made a very brief appearance toward the end of the movie. This in itself was disappointing as this 'Wendigo' was just a bizarre mix of a tree and a stag. Everything about the movie was uninspiring.

The parents of the little boy appeared to be rather aloof and at times seemed completely detached from their son. Whether this was down to bad acting or a bad script I'm not sure, but it only heightened my disappointment and boredom levels.

There was no food for thought, nothing to pique an interest. With no real intrigue or chill factor, this movie creaked along so painfully, you just couldn't care less what happened by the end.

Wendigo's ambiance reminds me of the dull movie shown at the awards ceremony toward the end of 'Mr Bean's Holiday': a movie which is artistic and nonsensical, trying too hard to to be deep and meaningful, but coming across as pretentious and boring.

I would never want to watch this again. I only watched it to the end in the vain hope that something interesting might happen ... but it didn't.