The Final Cut embodies the true essence of speculative fiction.
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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Reviews for The Final Cut
It'll take more than a fancy computer chip to help me remember this one.
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.
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.
Williams gives a performance that's honest and carefully wrought but on some level still a stunt.
It's a thoughtful, multi-layered film that falls a bit short of its goals on all fronts.
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.
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.
Most significantly, the film underscores the fact that the meaning of our lives ultimately comes from somewhere outside of ourselves.
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.
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.
Robin Williams edita con estoica convicción, los pecados de los hombres.
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.
[The] details alone would have made a great movie. But Naïm goes the Hollywood route...
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.
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