Distributor:
Sony Certificate: M15+ |
90 minutes | Region 4 Pal Format Available to buy Director: Omar
Naim Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Robin
Williams, Mira Sorvino, Jim Caviezel, Mimi Kuzyk, Stephanie Ramonov
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Sometime
in the not too distant future
people are able to have memory
chips planted in their brain and
when they die have their
memories live on; Alan Hakman
(Williams) is a cutter, someone
who pieces together the best and
most important bits of peoples
lives for a re-memory service,
Hakman specialises in taking on
memories of people no else wants
to, Cutters though are not
allowed to have a memory chip
and when Alan learns that he
actually has one it not only
changes his life but also gives
him the chance to seek
redemption for an act committed
in his childhood.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
The
Final Cut is a scifi flick but mostly it doesn’t really feel like one,
it’s heart is the redemptive power of memory and once again Williams
proves what a talented player he really is, although edgy loners seem to
be something of a speciality of his these days. First time
writer-director Omar Naim sometimes seems unsure where to lead his
drama, should he pursue the political angle of the rising unrest about
the implants, follow the very minor key love story between Williams and
Sorvino or focus instead on Alan’s quest to get closure on an incident
from his childhood.
By
not clearly defining any of these subplot strands it means that Naim
sometimes loses focus but the main premise of the story is strong enough
to keep you intrigued and with its strangely downbeat ending it
certainly leaves you with pause for thought.
