{"id":40262,"date":"2023-07-11T00:50:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T04:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40262"},"modified":"2023-07-11T19:45:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T23:45:25","slug":"final-cut-coupez-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/11\/final-cut-coupez-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Cut (Coupez!) (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you, like me, were blown away by 2017\u2019s \u201cOne Cut of the Dead,\u201d you\u2019ll have been surprised to learn that there was indeed a French language remake right down the pipeline. I\u2019ll admit that I was very annoyed by this news, but everyone\u2019s experience making movies is different and this story translates well to any one that has endured making art. \u201cFinal Cut\u201d when all is said and done is a very good remake of the 2017 original. It\u2019s funny and clever, but it never quite hits the emotional highs and sincerity that Shin\u2019ichir\u014d Ueda\u2019s original ever does.<\/p>\n

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Like the original, \u201cFinal Cut\u201d is set in an abandoned locale where a group of filmmakers are making a zombie movie. Before long they are attacked by actual zombies. We then shift back one month before where we meet Remi (Romain Duris), a hack director whose motto is \u201cfast and cheap.\u201d He is recruited by his producer Mounir (Lyes Salem) to film a one-take 30-minute zombie film for a new genre channel Z<\/em>. Unfortunately everything that can go wrong goes wrong, as cast members clash, props fail, and the crew develop horrible food poisoning.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinal Cut\u201d shifts back and forth to explore the process of making this movie and for most part it works, even when it takes liberties. This time the crew is adapting a Japanese script, and the producer (Yoshiko Takehara) is insistent on keeping the names, despite the film being made in France. This works beautifully as \u201cFinal Cut\u201d acknowledges its place as a remake. I think though this works to benefit it as a potential companion piece. You don\u2019t have to watch the original to enjoy \u201cFinal Cut\u201d but I\u2019d recommend it, if only to garner the full flavor of this hilarious, shockingly wholesome story.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a hilarious new gag with the movie\u2019s sound coordinator (Jean-Pascal Zadi is hilarious) who has to improvise a lot of the score based on the mishaps. Director and writer Michel Hazanavicius thankfully doesn\u2019t break what isn\u2019t broken, as he keeps mostly faithful to what made the original movie so great. That said, the movie never quite hits the emotional notes that \u201cOne Cut\u201d did, even when it embraces the whole idea of filmmaking as a community work of love, and whatnot. Also the original thirty minute prologue for the movie doesn\u2019t work all that well because director Hazanavicius doesn\u2019t play it as deadpan as the original.<\/p>\n

I did laugh a lot, nevertheless, and I also quite enjoyed a lot of the performances. Romain Duris is especially good as the filmmaker who has given up trying to be considered a respectable director, but somehow views this film as a feat he must accomplish. \u201cFinal Cut\u201d is not as good as Shin\u2019ichir\u014d Ueda\u2019s original, but it\u2019s still an entertaining remake that\u2019ll grab some hearty laughs.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m assuming it\u2019s only a matter of time before we get our American interpretation.<\/p>\n

Opens exclusively in theaters on Friday, July 14th<\/sup>, including the IFC Center in New York and the Laemmle Noho in Los Angeles.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you, like me, were blown away by 2017\u2019s \u201cOne Cut of the Dead,\u201d you\u2019ll have been surprised to learn that there was indeed a French language remake right down the pipeline. I\u2019ll admit that I was very annoyed by this news, but everyone\u2019s experience making movies is different and this story translates well to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[219,359,367,477,835,1221],"class_list":["post-40262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-filmmaking","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-remake","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40339,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40262\/revisions\/40339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}