HONOLULU -- Aki, the scientist/heroine of Square Picture's new movie "Final Fantasy," steps from the door of her space shuttle and surveys the wreckage that is Old New York.

The streets are cluttered with debris, there are human skulls on the ground, and the rubble of a fallen building forms a mound around a dirty street sign for Prudential Insurance.

Aki's eyes narrow as she sends up a radioactive flare that will reveal the nearly invisible monsters that inhabit this city.