Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001): Almost a Cult Classic

Some films crash, some soar, and some glide beautifully until they forget to deploy the landing gear. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is that third kind — visually breathtaking, emotionally adrift, and endlessly fascinated with its own mythology. It wants to be spiritual sci-fi poetry.

The movie delivers ghosts that steal souls, dreams that think they’re metaphors, and a world that somehow looks spotless after thirty years of disaster. It’s gorgeous, sincere, and occasionally baffling — the kind of movie that almost becomes profound before getting distracted by its own ambition.