What a disgrace to the Final Fantasy series. The movie LOOKED cool graphically, but had absolutely nothing to do with FF. I was so relieved when advent children came out.

This film was the most discaseful film under the final fantasy name i mean even final fantasy 10-2 looked better than this. i think they should get all the copies in the world and launch them in to space. i would say burn them but we got to look ather the enviroment. thank you for your time

I dont think it was a bad film at all. The concept was good, the CGI was breathtaking for the time (still is I think). But I was puzzled as why they stuck the FF name to it. That I definately didnt agree with. That is the underlying problem in my opinion, not that it was a bad film, but the fact it should not and was not a 'FF' film.

To be honest I dont know how they got away with sticking FF at the front of the title. But it certainly isn't a bad film

i thought it was rubbish, it was a sci-fi movie with the title Final Fantasy. There was just about nothing to do with FF, no chocobos, no magic, no similar naming nothing. It was just a sci-fi movie. They shoulda never made it imo

Well I generally don't see it as a bad film. Graphic wise it was outstanding, the phantoms were awesome too, however I don't see why it has the Final Fantasy title in it? Do you?

I mean it did contain elements of Fantasy, but if compared to Advent Children, or a story in a game, it is a failure. Well I personaly would say that they should have named it "Spirits Within", just that. And it would have been better, Not to quote someone: So that sums it up I think.

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IMO it was a poor excuse for a final fantasy film. It had nothing to do with the series, had no elements of fantasy, no magic except the spirit thingies and no swords (thats a big no-no lol) so who else just wants to pretend they never saw this movie?

How can you describe this as a "poor excuse for a final fantasy film" when one, to this date, had not been produced.

Furthermore the word fantasy refurs to "imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters." With that said just because its sci-fi like doesn't mean it does not encompass the word 'Fantasy'.

Though the movie did lack swords and magic it did contain some other key elements seen in other Final Fantasy games. I am only going to refur to some of the more recent ones.

They spoke of life force which, when thought about, is a lot like the lifestream from FFVII or the souls that are being transferred to the other world in FFIX (I forget which is Gaia and Terra...)

There were also guns which are in FFVII and FFVIII. Interestingly enough FFVII seemed to be the most popular game (and it had guns...), so guns are not exactly completely out of the question for a weapon category. Not to mention what they were fighting couldn't exactly be beaten by swords... I'm sure if they were beatable by swords they would have had swords in there. Sure they could have just made cool lightsaber type swords that can hit spirits, but that sounds really... retarded.

There was the theme of people saving the world. Thats in every final fantasy game ever for those of you that didn't realize. Sure its in a lot of things, but it doesn't change the fact that its being saved by a few young individuals, like other final fantasy games.. or all. Whatever.

The graphics were fantastic when it was released (and I dare say still are for the entire thing to be made entirely by computer).


How can someone honestly sit there and say this was a bad movie. Sure maybe it wasn't an exact copy of the games themes. But really is that what you want? I mean hell the story line was actually, in terms of movies, somewhat original (which is fantastic in itself if you think about it.)