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The Final Cut (2004)

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Reviews Counted:74

Fresh:28

Rotten:46

Average Rating:5.4/10

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for mature thematic material, some violence, sexuality and language

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Dramas

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,... 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, THE FINAL CUT offers a vision of a world where soon-to-be parents agree to let doctors surgically implant memory chips into the brains of their unborn children. These memory chips are like video cameras with infinite tape stock that comprehensively record the lives of their hosts through the hosts' own eyes--for better or for worse. When a host dies, a "cutter"--played here by an eerily introspective Robin Williams--receives the memory chip footage from the deceased person's family in order to edit the memories for a palatable funereal screening, called a "rememory." But are memories public or private? Is it fair for a cutter to decide what comprises a host's life story? And do people behave differently knowing that someone will view their lives, even their most intimate and discreet moments, as a short film? THE FINAL CUT's use of sharp and furtive handheld camera footage to depict the perspective of memory, set in contrast with the evenly measured cinematography of the rest of the film, constantly foregrounds the medium of film as memory-capturing and memory-making device. With an understated politic and a tightly wound narrative, this film delivers an open-minded and sophisticated meditation on ethics and technology, guilt and redemption, and the property rights of one's own cerebral cortex. [More]

Starring: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, Mimi Kuzyk, Jim Caviezel

Starring: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, Mimi Kuzyk, Jim Caviezel, Thom Bishops, Stephanie Romanov, Vincent Gale

Director: Omar Naim

Director: Omar Naim
Screenwriter: Omar Naim
Composer: Brian Tyler
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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The Final Cut embodies the true essence of speculative fiction.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
10/15/04
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

Part Paycheck, part Minority Report and part Sliver.

Full Review Source: About.com | comment Comment
10/15/04
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
About.com

It'll take more than a fancy computer chip to help me remember this one.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
10/14/04
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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Naim has conjured up a sci-fi conundrum worthy of Philip K. Dick, but he fails to flesh it out, choosing instead to hop around several subplots.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
10/14/04
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Final 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.

Full Review Source: Blunt Review | comment Comment
10/20/04
Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt
Blunt Review

Williams gives a performance that's honest and carefully wrought but on some level still a stunt.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
10/15/04
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
N/R

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
10/19/04
Boston Phoenix

It's a thoughtful, multi-layered film that falls a bit short of its goals on all fronts.

Full Review Source: Charlotte Observer | comment Comment
10/21/04
Lawrence Toppman
Lawrence Toppman
Charlotte Observer

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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
10/15/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A fairly well done but deadly dull futuristic thriller about lifelong memory-recording implants and guilt, this movie wastes more talent, including lead Robin Williams, than an all-star TV poker game.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
10/14/04
Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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Most significantly, the film underscores the fact that the meaning of our lives ultimately comes from somewhere outside of ourselves.

Full Review Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
09/22/06
Peter T. Chattaway
Peter T. Chattaway
Christianity Today
N/R

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02/27/09
Devin Faraci
Devin Faraci
CHUD
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Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

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

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
04/08/05
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

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.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
09/26/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

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

Full Review Source: Cinenganos | comment Comment
04/30/05
Luis Martinez
Luis Martinez
Cinenganos

To dissect The Final Cut is to reduce it – Naim has done a beautiful job making this movie about a whole lot of things, while still making it feel delicate and sparse.

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
10/14/04
Karina Montgomery
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina

[The] details alone would have made a great movie. But Naïm goes the Hollywood route...

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
10/15/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

An original idea but too dark--not the story, but the set.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
10/17/04
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

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.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
10/13/04
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing
 
 
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