 Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within is a 2001 American CGI animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi , creator of the Final Fantasy series of role @-@ playing video games . It was the first photorealistic computer @-@ animated feature film and remains the most expensive video game @-@ inspired film of all time . It features the voices of Ming @-@ Na Wen , Alec Baldwin , Donald Sutherland , James Woods , Ving Rhames , Peri Gilpin and Steve Buscemi . 
