Movie Review Kingsglaive: Unfit for a King If Kingsglaive succeeded in doing anything it’s proving that Square-Enix really should stop making Movies. Kingsglaive is an exercise in seeing how much fans are willing to forgive from a Square-Enix production. It does at least consistently feel like a Final Fantasy Movie peppered with nods to the series throughout, unlike The Spirits Within which couldn’t have had less to do with the property. However, that isn’t saying much in its defense since it’s just as bad if not worse in other ways. Visuals Kingsglaive looks good for a video game, which is problematic since this is in fact a film. Never once did I feel like I was watching a movie. Square seems to think that making things look real is enough to make it feel real. Things would happen during the film, and none of the characters would have any kind of facial reaction outside of slightly raised eyebrows when they remember to “feel.” Character movements feel just as sluggish and stiff as they do during game cut scenes, which kept me from getting engrossed in the film. The whole thing just felt like a long winded set of cut scenes in a game that just never let up, complete with frame rate drops. There are times in this film where for some inexplicable reason the action slows down during a scene the same way that frame rate drops during games, which was very jarring. Sound/Voice work While the soundtrack is very good that could be attributed to the fact that they took the music right out of the game. The same can’t be said for the cast who seem like they’re all phoning in their performances, as if this is something to do in between shooting more important projects for some spare change. Sean Bean (King Regis) is a stand out of not caring performances. His tone never once changes for any reason throughout the film, and he delivers his lines as if he was told to do so 50 times in a row. Aaron Paul (Nyx) and Lena Headey (Lunafreya) have good moments together but suddenly drop their performances to match that of Bean. Almost as if they realized they were caring too much and had to dial it back to fit the rest of the horrid performances....