The Final Cut2004
The Final Cut (2004)
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Critic Consensus: The Final Cut fails to make compelling use of its intriguing premise and talented cast, settling for a middling sci-fi drama that never justifies its pretensions.
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Cast
as Alan Hakman
as Delila
as Fletcher
as Thelma
as Jennifer Bannister
as Hasan
as Isabel Bannister
as Michael
as Simon
as Young Alan (9)
as Youg Louis (9)
as Legz, The Tattoo Artist
as Charles Bannister
as Jason Monroe
as Caroline Monroe
as Pregnant Woman On Bus
as Tattooed Man
as Eliza Monroe
as Daniel Monroe
as Jason Monroe (6)
as Battered Woman
as Rom
as Security Guard
as Uncle Murray
as Guest #1
as Guest #2
as Natalie
as Adult Louis
as Mrs. Hakman
as Mr. Hakman
as Oliver
as Karim
as Zoe Tech Representative
as Balding Man
as Professor
as Bobby
as Sobbing Woman
as Delivery Nurse
as Doctor
as Dad
as Patient Parent
as Squabbling Wife
as Squabbling Husband
as Pregnant Woman's Husband
as Aging Man
as Man
as Woman
as Business Man
as Toasting Guy
as Pretty Woman
as Friend #1
as Friend #2
as Voice Of Danny Monroe
as Old Man
as Swing Girl
as Screeching Car Driver
as Screeching Car Passenger
Critic Reviews for The Final Cut
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Forgive me, but The Final Cut should really be the one where you turn off the camera and go do something far more interesting; like maybe taking out the garbage.
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.
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.
Super Reviewer
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).
Super Reviewer
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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