I actually like the Final Fantasy movie aside from the somewhat lack of emotion the characters displayed. I blame that on the fact that it was 100% CG, so the animators had to do everything themselves. I was shocked to see one of the main characters was the spitting image of Ben Affleck.

But yeah, there's no way FF could have made its budget back. I wonder if they even ever intended to. The movie seemed more like an excercise of "can we do this" than "can we do this successfully". I think, for its time, it did a pretty good job showing us what was possible.