{"id":8362,"date":"2006-06-01T05:35:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T09:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=8362"},"modified":"2006-06-01T05:35:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T09:35:40","slug":"the-final-cut-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/01\/the-final-cut-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Cut (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image05\"<\/a>I\u2019d like to think of \u201cThe Final Cut\u201d as \u201cMemento\u201d-lite. It\u2019s a film based on the basic premise of \u201cMemento\u201d and \u201cMinority Report\u201d about a quasi-future society based on a completely boring plot device. After watching this, I thought to myself \u201cThat\u2019s why this didn\u2019t experience wide distribution\u201d. Even with Robin Williams playing it low with another conflicted and mellow performance, \u201cThe Final Cut\u201d never lives up to anything it promises. I was never sure what in god\u2019s name the writer was even trying to explain to the audience with the rambling concept and story.<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019 job as a man who peruses through a lifetime of video from a chip implanted in to these people\u2019s heads is never as insightful or thought-provoking as it could be, and watching Williams emote while looping video is not as dramatic as the director thinks. If that\u2019s not enough, the home videos he chronicles are so ingenuous. People spout cheesy dialogue to make it look sentimental, and just to feel as if we\u2019re watching something more than a simple melodrama, everyone speaks in low whispers, and I slowly fall asleep. Williams continues playing the same character he did in \u201cInsomnia\u201d and his character, along with Jim Caviezel\u2019s, is very unlikable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Final Cut\u201d is sadly a semi sci-fi thriller that also attempts to be a murder mystery and a rather limp one at that. And when Sorvino whose character is even more boring and one-dimensional enters the film, things manage to slow down even more. The relationship between Sorvino and Williams is extremely forced, and never adds nothing to the film except arbitrary drama and excessive padding that adds up to nothing but a rather cheap plot twist. \u201cThe Final Cut\u201d is limp, and quite a challenge to sit through. Robin Williams plays the same sad and mopey character he did in “Insomnia” and “One Hour Photo”, Jim Caviezel’s talents are wasted, and Sorvino really has no reason to be here. “The Final Cut” is a sleepy, boring, and utterly forgettable thriller that should rightly remain forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d like to think of \u201cThe Final Cut\u201d as \u201cMemento\u201d-lite. It\u2019s a film based on the basic premise of \u201cMemento\u201d and \u201cMinority Report\u201d about a quasi-future society based on a completely boring plot device. After watching this, I thought to myself \u201cThat\u2019s why this didn\u2019t experience wide distribution\u201d. Even with Robin Williams playing it low […]<\/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":[302,338,703,906,1087],"class_list":["post-8362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-f","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362","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=8362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}