The Final Cut (2004)
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First-time filmmaker Omar Naim wrote and directed the sci-fi drama The Final Cut. Set in the near future, the story concerns a device implanted in the body that is capable of recording a person's entire life. Once it is extracted from the body after death, the footage can be played back on a screen in the form of "rememories." Robin Williams plays Alan Hakman, an editor who cuts together the footage to make pleasant movies for funerals. Tormented by his job and his own memories, Alan also has a … More
| Rating: | PG-13 (for mature thematic material, some violence, sexuality and language) |
| Genre: | Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Directed By: | Omar Naim, Various |
| Written By: | Omar Naim |
| In Theaters: | Oct 15, 2004 Wide |
| On DVD: | Mar 22, 2005 |
| Box Office: | $0.5M |
| Runtime: |
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All Critics (91) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (49) | DVD (15)
It's not quite as smart as it thinks it is.
It's nice to see Mira Sorvino who has sort of wobbled about since winning the Oscar about ten years ago she is very good in this film.
Williams has extraordinary success in channeling this other person. How strange that the same actor can play some of the most uninhibited of all characters, and some of the most morose.
This debut from writer-director Omar Naim is cut-and-dried sci-fi thriller business.
The lack of imagination, given the initial premise, is astounding.
This first feature from writer-director Omar Naim is unusually accomplished.
Audience Reviews for The Final Cut
Technology is developed that allows recording of one's entire life. Why? So that once yer dead your relatives can make a memorial film clip of your life. While not the expected use of such capabilities it's the set-up for Williams to play a man whose job it is to shape those recorded lifetimes into Disney-fied music videos (cue Phillip Glass-like score). Problems herein include the predictable privacy concerns, a dead tech wizard's possibly incriminating and thus exploitable past, as well as Williams own personally troubling past. It's not bad insofar as a interesting sci-fi idea explored goes, but somehow fails to connect. Williams, Sorvino and Caviezel all perform well for the newbie director/writer Naim who only lacks focus IMO., delivering a tale nicely reminiscent of 1950's pulp sci-fi.
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God, I hate Robin Williams! One of the world's most overrated actors is terribly pouty and rigid in THE FINAL CUT. He's not alone, though. Most of the top players in this film are awful as well.
Between the script's huge deficiencies, the many plot holes, the underdeveloped characters and Fletcher's (Jim Caviezel) fake beard, the film fails miserably, even more so considering its alluring concept. The score by Bryan Tyler is incredible (and that's about it).
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Interesting concept with a somewhat anticlimactic ending. Robin Williams is understated and slightly creepy as the sin-eating cutter, and I always love Jim Caviezel.
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