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The Final Cut (2004)

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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 19

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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

PG-13, 1 hr. 44 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Omar Naim

Mar 22, 2005

$0.5M

Lions Gate Films

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All Critics (87) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (49) | DVD (15)

It's not quite as smart as it thinks it is.

October 20, 2004 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Comment
Newark Star-Ledger
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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.

October 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
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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.

October 15, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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This debut from writer-director Omar Naim is cut-and-dried sci-fi thriller business.

October 15, 2004 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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This first feature from writer-director Omar Naim is unusually accomplished.

October 15, 2004 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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This premise sounds like the sort of a screwy, non-idea that a young film student might dream up while editing a documentary. And according to the press notes, that's just what happened.

October 15, 2004 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
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Most significantly, the film underscores the fact that the meaning of our lives ultimately comes from somewhere outside of ourselves.

September 22, 2006 Comment

Robin Williams edita con estoica convicción, los pecados de los hombres.

April 30, 2005 Full Review Source: Cinenganos | Comment
Cinenganos

A solid thriller through most of its 105-minute run. Sadly, the film comes to a sudden, and dissatisfying, halt.

April 8, 2005 Comment

O melhor aspecto do filme reside na maneira inteligente com que discute as implicaįões sociais e morais de sua premissa - a marca registrada de toda boa ficįão científica.

April 8, 2005 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Comment
Cinema em Cena

If the ending is predictable and even anti-climactic, chalk it up to a first effort. The rest of the film, brilliantly shot by Tak Fujimoto, is worth a look-see.

April 2, 2005 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | Comment
San Diego Metropolitan

The message of The Final Cut is clear: memories can't be trusted, and neither can Canadians.

April 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Freeze Dried Movies | Comment
Freeze Dried Movies

Naim's script is intelligent, but not always easy to follow. It is an example of a fully adult science fiction film and one that does not require any special effects.

March 30, 2005 Full Review | Comment
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The final outcome... [is] confusing, not to mention downright dissatisfying.

March 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Final Cut

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

September 1, 2010

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.

June 1, 2010
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Foreign Titles

  • Dein Tod ist erst der Anfang (DE)
  • Final Cut (UK)
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