The Final Cut (movie)

4 Ratings: 2.5

A movie directed by Omar Naim

The Final Cut is a film written and directed by Omar Naim, released in 2004. The cast includes Robin Williams, James Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Christopher Britton, and Genevieve Buechner. It was produced by the Canadian production company, Lions Gate … see full wiki

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Cast: James Caviezel, Anjelica Huston, Mimi Kuzyk, Stefan Arngrim, Brendan Fletcher, Kwesi Ameyaw, see all

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Release Date: October 15, 2004

MPAA Rating: PG-13

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review by Pardolis. March 23, 2010

posted in Forbidden Planet - Sci-Fi Books & Films!

The Final Cut

The Final Cut is an intriguing film from 2004 starring Robin Williams. Alan Hakman (played by Williams) lives in a world where certain people (who have enough money) can pay to have their offspring implanted with a Zoe chip before they are born. These implants literally record every moment of one's life. After a person with the chip dies, a "cutter" takes the footage and edits it into a "Rememory", which is then played at the person's funeral. Alan is one of these "cutters" … more

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review by luan_gaines. March 19, 2009

"There's no replacing your husband's life. He deserved a rememory."

In the not-so-distant future, thanks to the invention of the Zoe Implant, those who can afford the device leave behind their life stories as lived, material, good and bad, to be edited by specially trained "cutters', the result a "rememory" film to share with the world, a sanitized view of the person's history, scrubbed of negative information. Alan Hakman (Robin Williams) is an expert cutter, one of the most skilled and in demand for the excellence of his work. Accepting … more

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review by gradyharp. May 16, 2005

posted in Movie Hype

A Big Dark Pot Full of Ideas Screaming to be Edited

FINAL CUT tries to be an obtuse story revolving around infant brain implants that secure memory for posterity, a process that upon death technicians known as 'cutters' can edit to present just the good parts of a person's life for their final "Rememory" service. Parents pay for the implant on their child: later grandchildren and widows/widowers celebrate the deceased in a movie that has subtracted anything negative from the manipulated departed. Sound like a good idea for a movie? Yes, and it has … more

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