Two words: fans only.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is not so much a feature film as it is an extended series of FMV cutscenes that would be more at home tacked onto the end of the eponymous popular videogame.
The main reason for this is the story. Someone who hasn't played the FF7 game would have no hope of understanding what the hell is going on. Heck, I finished FF7 back in the day, and I had trouble picking up the story without the help of the subtitles and some real hard thinking.
Essentially, you have FF7's main character, Cloud Strife, meeting some elements of the game's main source of evil (the alien Jenova) which eventually turn into the game's iconic villan, Sepiroth.
Yeah, it's all a big excuse for one more (anticlimactic) battle between a videogame's hero and villan. Spice up with a few head-scratching cameos of other characters, add in a lot of impressive CGI flash, and that's Advent Children.
Bottom Line: Unless you're a FF7 fan, you can pass. Even if you are, don't expect any deep storylines here. It's just eye candy.
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