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Plot: Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.
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MCT:August 30, 2008I can't believe I haven't rated this movie yet. Probably one of the best performances given by Mr. Williams. There is no humor in this movie. This is one of those films that shows what a talented actor he is. I've been waiting for a new film be Mr. Naim, but to no avail. And that is a shame. This film has an original script (written by him) with a fascinating premise-would you want a recorder inserted in your mind to record your life? This is the kind of film I crave, but can rarely find these days.
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MCT:August 29, 2008Very good movie, I didn't like the end it felt rushed and not well thought out.. but apart from that everything about this movie is great.
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MCT:July 26, 2008
Its a pretty heavy idea to use in a film but it does work quite well. Robin Williams is acting well as he always does. though this film does feel like it's missing some things
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MCT:July 3, 2008
good movie. really makes you think about the things that we do in our lives and what will be remembered.
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MCT:June 16, 2008At the very beginning I was about to tag it as a normal nothing special...
Well, I had to change my opinion very soon. Not only it's quite good, but makes us think of some deep behavioral and moral implications of the human memory manipulation.
Well done, and with a usually great Robin Williams.
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MCT:June 12, 2008
Robin Williams plays the role of a 'cutter'. Alan (Robin W.) uses a 'Zoe' chip , which is implanted in the brain and records a person's entire life. He is opposed by Fletcher (James Caviezel), which too was a 'cutter' before. Considering I'm a Jim fan, I should say that I wanted him to turn up more during the movie!! The film, though a bit weird, is a great Sci-fi movie.
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MCT:June 11, 2008A neat idea with lots of potential is wasted here. The "ending" leaves us with more questions than answers. Lots of elements in the movie that should have been bigger where barely tapped upon.
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MCT:June 5, 2008
I avoided this film for the longest time because Robin Williams is the lead character,even after viewing I'm still of the same opinion; if a different actor had been cast who knows maybe alot more people would want to see it too. The basic premise of the film is what if when you die instead of people remembering you at your wake, you're own personal memories are shown, throughtout your life your memories have been recorded. Williams plays a cutter a third person party assigned to edit peoples memories after their death, drop the bad, leave the good, a family member could not be trusted with such a precious commodity, secrets , crimes and such ruining a persons reputation hence a cutter like Williams is assigned. Great premise for a film or what, it opens some great ethicla debates which are only dealed with to a certain extent. Enjoyable enough fiilm and even though I don't personally like Williams as an actor he does good here, my other fault just watch it, the ending abrupt or what
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MCT:May 11, 2008
robin williams was great in this futuristic movie of what-if's. though quite short, the film was able to tell its purpose in the end.
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MCT:May 10, 2008
Another interesting Concept. What if our life was available for everyone to review after we perish? Would we strive to do the right thing?
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MCT:April 13, 2008I remember not being totally thrilled or entertained watching this movie. I was expecting a thriller sci-fi cool flick but instead I found myself bored.
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MCT:March 25, 2008
This movie reminds me of what Science Fiction used to be when I was a kid - where the story was about creating an idea that would leave you pondering the ramifications of scientific advancement for days afterwards, more than you pondered the actors or the film itself. The film felt incomplete, though, and could have delved deeper into the subject matter and fleshed out a few of the characters more. A great idea, even if it fell a little short in execution.
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MCT:February 11, 2008
have you ever thought of being able to see your own life just like a movie, with every move you take, every word you say...I did...but imagine that other people can see it too, and you are aware of it, and you might have secret that you don't want others to see...this movie is abouti this...the idea is great :)
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MCT:February 8, 2008
This is an interesting movie. Imagine embedding a memory chip inside your head and this can actually record every single detail of your life. And play it back on your funeral.
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MCT:January 30, 2008
Interesting tech idea about storing our experiences. Some parts are a bit hard to believe but overall an enjoyable flick.
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MCT:January 20, 2008
Very unique. I love these futuristic new technology movies. The Final Cut reminds me of the Uglies series by a man whose name I have forgotten. Robin Williams was fantastic, as he is in all of his movies. The ending kind of leaves you hanging though. It stopped, I thought, too soon.
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MCT:November 11, 2007
i liked the small film feel and the ethics struggle. i liked williams' character in his isolation and his naive talent in finding the good in people.
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MCT:November 1, 2007
An interesting premise, pretty well acted in general but Robin Williams in particular is always very watchable.
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MCT:October 31, 2007
The film opens with Alan Hakman and another named Louis Hunt, children who enter an abandoned factory. They come to a long wooden plank suspended high above the floor. Louis falls after Hakman goads him into crossing the plank. Hakman apparently witnesses him bloody and dead. The film advances to Hakman's adult life, portraying him creating two rememories from Zoe implants. It turns out that Hakman is a very skillful cutter whose edits can make "saints out of criminals", and his services are highly valued by rich immoral people (Hakman sees himself doing a good deed, as a sin-eater who removes past crimes from dead people so they can rest in peace.) At the screening of a rememory, a fellow cutter, Fletcher, offers Hakman $500 000 for the Bannister footage he recently acquired. Bannister is a former EYE Tech manager, and it appears the Zoe footage reveals details of his life of a scandalous nature, implied to be child molestation of his young daughter. It becomes clear that Fletcher is allied with the anti-Zoe protesters, and wants the footage to discredit EYE Tech and the implant. Hakman refuses to surrender it after locating in the footage a person he believes to be Hunt; he sets the "Guillotine," which in the film is the computer used to sort and edit ("cut") the Zoe footage, to search for more images of the man. He gets a handgun.
Hakman brings his lover into his apartment, Delila, and leaves her alone with his Guillotine. When he returns he puts bullets in his firearm under the belief that Fletcher and his associate have broken into his apartment to steal the Bannister footage. Instead, he finds Delila poring over the full Zoe footage of her late boyfriend. Hakman apparently uses the footage to learn about her dreams and interests, so he can please her better. Delila becomes angry that her private memory with her boyfriend is used in such a manner, and shoots the Guillotine, the bullet hits the Bannister card destroying its footage.
Hakman and his colleagues break into the EYE Tech headquarters to locate Hunt's Zoe footage as a second source, and although he does not find Hunt's footage, because the two names begin with the letter 'H' he discovers a file under his own name. He realizes that he himself has a Zoe implant, violating the cutter's code that no cutter may have one. He immediately undergoes the first stage of a specialized tattooing procedure to end the implant's ability to record data. Hakman then requests that his colleagues perform a dangerous procedure to biopsy the Zoe footage from his own brain, so he can obtain closure on Hunt's death. On viewing the footage, which is much more accurate than his own recollection, he discovers that Louis survived the childhood fall, and what he mistook for blood was actually spilled paint.
When Fletcher and his associate finally break in to steal the Bannister footage, they find out it was destroyed. Hakman lies to Bannister's wife that a technical fault destroyed it. Hakman visits Louis' grave, and is joined by Fletcher, who has discovered through the tattoo parlour that Hakman has an implant and that it recorded the critical images from the Bannister footage. Foregoing the biopsy procedure, Fletcher and co. chase Hakman through the graveyard filled with video tombstones, and his associate then shoots Hakman in the chest, killing him. The film closes with Fletcher cutting images of Hakman's editing of the Bannister footage, promising that Hakman's life will mean something. -
MCT:October 25, 2007
Pretty neat story. I think it's a bit unlikely that someone can make a career viewing an entire life and edit a movie, especially more than one life (like lots of them). You know, there's this problem with your life not being hundreds upon hundreds of years long. Other than that little flaw, it was neat.
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MCT:October 15, 2007
Interesting sci-fi movie, not sure if I really liked it or not because it does not seem quite complete,
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MCT:October 1, 2007
In a future where privacy is unsure, people's lives can change if they know their lives are being recorded - and the scenes edited by a cutter to present the joyous moments in a post-mortem video.
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