Let's be brutally honest: this is a mess. With a 13% critic score and 35 on Metacritic, Kingsglaive is what happens when a game studio tries to make a movie and forgets that movies need, you know, coherent plots and character development.

The animation is legitimately stunning—some of the best CGI you'll see from 2016. But it's lipstick on a pig. The story is so tangled in Final Fantasy XV lore that it's virtually unwatchable as a standalone film. You'll spend two hours squinting at the screen wondering who these people are, why they're fighting, and what any of it means.

The 69% audience score tells you everything: the only people who liked this are hardcore FF fans who already knew the context. For everyone else, it's a beautiful, expensive snoozefest punctuated by violence.

If your teen is obsessed with Final Fantasy XV and begging to watch this, fine—it's rated appropriately for 13+ and won't traumatize anyone. But don't expect them to gain anything except maybe some game backstory. And definitely don't try to watch this as family movie night unless you want everyone asking "wait, who's that again?" every five minutes.