Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

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Japanese: KINGSGLAIVE FINAL FANTASY XV

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 9, 2016

Producers: Square Enix

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Studios: Square Enix Visual Works

Source: Game

Genre: Action

Duration: 1 hr. 55 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.40¹ (scored by 36,316 users)

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Ranked: #2308²

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Popularity: #2827

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For years, the Niflheim Empire and the kingdom of Lucis have been at war. The empire, having dominated most of the world of Eos, covets the power of the last known Crystal, which is held in Lucis' capital city, Insomnia.

In order to protect his people from these advancing forces, King Regis Lucis Caelum CXIII used the power of the Crystal to surround Insomnia with a magical wall. Along with this barrier, Regis assembled an elite military task force known as the Kingsglaive. By drawing their power from the king, the Kingsglaive protect Lucis' borders from the onslaught of the empire and other forces that would do them harm.

One such member of the Kingsglaive is Nyx, a man nicknamed "The Hero" by his fellow warriors due to his arrogance and desire to save everyone. However, his pride gets the better of him, causing him to disobey his captain's orders, resulting in a demotion. Now, Nyx spends his days guarding the city gates, but things begin to change once word gets out that Regis plans to sign a peace treaty with their sworn enemies.

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Sequel:	Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV
Other:	Kingsglaive: FFXV Fan Kansha Tokubetsu Movie
Prequel:	Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn - Prologue

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Ulric, Nyx

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Ayano, Gou
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Nox Fleuret, Lunafrena

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Kutsuna, Shiori
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Lucis Caelum, Regis

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Isobe, Tsutomu
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Lucis Caelum, Noctis

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Suzuki, Tatsuhisa
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Argentum, Prompto

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Kakihara, Tetsuya
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Scientia, Ignis

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Miyano, Mamoru
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Amicitia, Gladiolus

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Miyake, Kenta
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Izunia, Ardyn

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Fujiwara, Keiji
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Nox Fleuret, Ravus

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Nakamura, Yuuichi
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Altius, Crowe

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Fujimura, Ayumi
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Tabata, Hajime

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Nozue, Takeshi

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Hasegawa, Takashi

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Méyère, Bruno

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Dec 2, 2021

LucentRivers

Recommended

This movie holds up really well both in terms of visuals and story. Nyx and Luna, and sometimes King Regis carry the movie in terms of character, as the others all come off as pretty cliche and just sort of pawns to the whole thing. There are some missteps and missed opportunities, particularly in how the film squanders some of its promising characters, but overall this film works as a big hype up to 15 so much that it made me hate 15. I was expecting way more than what we got. Sure, I haven't played 15 since it has ben bandaided by DLCs, but ...

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May 12, 2018

Thedude3445

Mixed Feelings

(Review originally posted on Letterboxd)

This movie tried really, really hard to be something special, something more than a tie-in prologue to a video game, and it got fairly close, but its execution was unfortunately not as good as its ambition.

This movie, essentially the Rogue One to the recent video game Final Fantasy XV, is the story of some guardsmen as they deal with the impending collapse of their kingdom after a really long war. The movie opens with a fairly incomprehensible opening monologue and throws us right into the action with pretty much no explanation afterwards. Anyone who complained about Warcraft being hard to follow ... needs to watch this and see just how hard it COULD have been; I was thoroughly baffled for the first fifteen minutes at least. Though... I started to dig it eventually, thanks in part to the well-crafted worldbuilding.

There's a lot to praise about the movie technically. The CGI is several steps above other recent Japanese-animated movies such as Space Captain Harlock, and the movie was specially re-animated for the English version, so the lips move in-sync, which really surprised me at first. The world of Final Fantasy XV is also intricately-designed, and you can tell that in every scene from the beautiful sets and costumes (can I use those terms for CGI movies?). It's a sign that, even without motion-capture performances, computer animation is coming a long way and it's going to look superb in just a few years.

The story is also wrapped up in ambition; there's a big political plot and a whole lot of machinations and it's genuinely compelling to a degree. However, the execution is pretty poor in some areas; there's one subplot that seems really minor, disappears, and then becomes very important, but in a confusing way. The entire main plot is also incredibly convoluted. It's unfortunate, but it's not incredibly difficult to follow unless you already gave up by that point.

Some of the action setpieces are genuinely amazing; the final battle has a dual-battle that plays with scale in ways that I had never thought about from any action movie. And some of them are just storyboarded really-well. However, the editing for these sequences is oftentimes strange and makes them hard to follow. The opening battle sequence is actually the worst example, which is probably what left me so confused for so long into the movie's first act.

Also, because I watched the English dub, I got some pretty mediocre voice acting from the non-principal cast, with a lot of annoying anime voices. Aaron Paul is good, though. The sound editing for the voice acting is also damn bad, making it sound like, well, a dub. The voices usually sound like they're coming from disembodied sources offscreen rather from the characters speaking. It's not always the case, though, so I know they could have done better.

Overall I can't help but have enjoyed the movie; it's ridiculously complicated, very self-serious, and pretty dorky, with a ton of narrative flaws, but it's entertaining enough that I can give it the benefit of the doubt. A lot like Jupiter Ascending, actually. I doubt I will ever play Final Fantasy XV, but this movie did make me very interested in it, at least.

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Aug 11, 2022

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Not Recommended

A pretty, skippable, and forgettable movie. Knowing this move through a friend's recommendation and upon watching it I realized I must have watched it before, but not really a "re-watch" cuz I have zero memory about the plots which upon my 'second' watch yes they are very mediocre and very forgeable. The writing is not good but not offensive enough to be bad which means there is literally nothing memorable, right after my 'second' watch (now) the only name that I can recall is 'lucifer' which I believe is the name of the city where the movie has taken place (no need to correct me ...

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