Continuity mistake: When Aki gets cornered by phantoms in Old New York at the beginning of the film and the Deep Eyes come to rescue her, all four members of the Deep Eye Squad jump from the transport (even though one of them should be the pilot), but only three of them hit the ground. Just a few seconds later, Aki tries to escape through a gap between two buildings. The three Deep Eyes follow her. When Ryan shoots at two phantoms hitting some explosive tanks in one of the next shots, you can see four Deep Eyes again. (00:07:15)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Motonori Sakakibara, Hironobu Sakaguchi
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Ming-Na Wen
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animated, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Thriller
Gaia is the life force of the planet that gives creatures on the planet life. Every living creature has this spirit inside it, including humans. The researchers discover the 7th spirit is any phantom spirit that comes in contact with Gaia. Therefore, the phantom virus within Aki automatically becomes the final spirit since it is already in direct contact with her spirit, and the wave is complete. Gray sacrafices himself in order to transmit the completed wave into the alien life-stream, which eliminates the phantoms, and saves the world.
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More mistakes in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Grey: You've been trying to tell me that death isn't the end. Don't back out on me now that I believe.
Trivia: Something to look for: somewhere in the film, the animators placed a Chocobo (one of those ostrich-like chicken things that people ride on in some of the Final Fantasy games). It's on the top right corner of Aki's shirt, almost the same color as the shirt, when she wakes up from her 2nd dream.
Question: The phantoms can kill with the merest touch and can reach through any material - floors, walls, aircraft fuselage etc. Why then do the soldiers bother to don heavy, clunky body armour whenever they go out to battle? They'd do just as well in T-shirts and fatigues.
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