Naim's direction is as pedestrian as his screenplay, and his inexperience at working with actors surfaces in the one-note performances.
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10/19/04
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The Final Cut (2004)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:28
Rotten:46
Average Rating:5.4/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 15, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $529,194
Synopsis: Omar Naim's futuristic science-fiction story generates many mysterious, alluring, and thought-provoking questions about memory, surveillance, and the ethics of personal privacy. Set in the future,... [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, Mimi Kuzyk, Jim Caviezel
Director: Omar Naim
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Reviews for The Final Cut
[The] details alone would have made a great movie. But Naïm goes the Hollywood route...
10/15/04
A movie that goes a long way on the strength of its unique premise, steady performances and impressive visual style.
10/15/04
The Final Cut can't cope with its own weirdness.
10/15/04
Top CriticFinal Cut will burrow into your psyche and make you wonder. It's a smart, dark, glimpse into cerebral science's possible paths and the menacing state of civil rights' future.
10/20/04
It's a dark and thought-provoking exploration of where our strange marriage of voyeurism and self-absorption may lead us just a few years from now.
10/15/04
Top CriticThis 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.
10/15/04
What seems to keep you in your seat through this vacuum is wondering how far an incredible premise can be taken under the guise of Sci-Fi.
09/26/04
For a movie that often feels like it's cobbled together from pieces of Minority Report, Blade Runner and other futuristic odysseys, this one is weirdly engrossing.
10/13/04
I'm frankly amazed the foolish, cheap-looking thing didn't go straight to the Sci-Fi Channel.
11/08/04
Williams gives a performance that's honest and carefully wrought but on some level still a stunt.
10/15/04
Top CriticFor all its brain teasing, Final Cut is more a philosophical rumination than an engaging drama.
10/15/04
The Final Cut embodies the true essence of speculative fiction.
10/15/04
the plot creaks with wild coincidences, spotty writing, and twists that fail to thrill so much as make the audience groan in the face yet another cliché
10/09/04
Most significantly, the film underscores the fact that the meaning of our lives ultimately comes from somewhere outside of ourselves.
09/22/06
Everything of minor interest in the piece (and Williams' late career) is crystallized in the lyrics to the maudlin Pink Floyd song that bears this film's name.
10/21/04
Maybe this movie needed one more final cut to clean up the rough spots, but even with all its flaws it still has entertainment value.
10/15/04
Another dud of a movie that springs from an intriguing premise.
10/15/04
Top CriticWilliams 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.
10/15/04
Top CriticStriking visuals help, but pic won't make the cut with genre fans or the arthouse crowd.
02/12/04
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