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I've been binging all the FF movies and I got to say this is by far the worst of the bunch.

These movies are just stupid and ridiculous and should never be taken seriously, yet this movie seems to mess up the formula. The ridiculous is a bit too ridiculous. The comedy doesn't properly land. The movie tries to be darker and it just doesn't fit. The villain's plan just makes no sense, it's incredibly lame and completely breaks the immersion.

Vin Diesel turns into the Winter Soldier for whatever reason. The NYC sequence is detestable.

Even in a movie where logic is out the window, betraying the basic premises you set up at the beginning of the movie is just dumb. They wanted to find a way for Dom to be the Winter Soldier, but couldn't make it work, so they did it anyway, and it doesn't work.

Excessive use of god level hacking ruins pretty much every scene. When you can do stuff such as controlling hundreds of cars of all brand and time at the same time from one laptop, or remotely control a soviet era submarine with nuclear rockets, then what is it that you can't do? You got no limits excepts when the plot puts those limits on you. And what's up with these generic enemies spawning into every scene out of nowhere? And the random kiss for only shock value? Nothing works in this movie.

Not as fun not thrilling as the past ones.

This was easily the best episode. It's weirdly relaxing, full of content and meaning and yet so "simple" to watch.

The focus is on the contrasting journey between Ekko and Jayce. One has to go through hell and painfully earn his way back, in order to save his world and right all the wrongs. The other has to go through his own personal heaven, and let it all go with no hesitation to go back and save his world.

Ekko has a lot of screen-time and it is very much deserved, he's one of the most enticing characters of the show and it's been nice to spend time with him.

The tragedy of this character is easy to forget, but the episode makes sure to bring it back in center-stage. And yet he remains empathic, altruistic.

The final episode is amazing to watch. I must admit that as the whole show ends, it is clear that things have been rushed to cram everything into the 9 episode format the writers were given. It's a lot of stuff that is left unexplained or to be understood during re-watches. Maybe a bit too much. Maddie's character is really weak, the rest of the new character generally feel empty and wasted. But I loved what they did with the characters we actually care about.

This show, and this episode specifically, embrace animation and reminds us of why it's such an amazing medium. It's just so nice to witness. The music is also incredible. Absolute joy-ride.