'The Final Cut' is small scale sci-fi flick, that has almost none existing special effects and that relies more on its plot and actors than action.
Alan Hakman (Robin Williams) is a cutter of memory films, which are recorded directly from peoples mind using a chip, that is installed on them on birth. He's considered extremely good in his work, as he doesn't mind of the sins he sees on the monitors flashing out the live stories of the deceased. He can forgive each sin, because he has a childhood sin of his own, that has haunted him for so long, that he's almost incapable of human relations.
Fletcher (James Caviezel) is on the other side of the scale. He is leading a group of activists, who want the memory recording banned. The see, that people have the right to execute their relationships without of fear of being recorded. Fletcher sees his big break, when he learns that Alan has the recording of hot shot lawyer of the implant company. There surely must be sins in his closet, which could be used to drive his cause.
'The Final Cut' is more a film about the human memory: how we remember things and what we remember. There isn't much of action and the film doesn't need that. The plot is interesting enough to carry through and the actors do very good job through out the film.
On the minus side the film is very short, only 1 and half hours, which leads on that other characters besides of Alan stay very underdeveloped, like his girlfriend Delila (Mira Sorvino), who had the opportunity of bringing interesting side plot to the film, but was never really used.
All in all good, well directed film, which could have been a bit longer.
Alan Hakman (Robin Williams) is a cutter of memory films, which are recorded directly from peoples mind using a chip, that is installed on them on birth. He's considered extremely good in his work, as he doesn't mind of the sins he sees on the monitors flashing out the live stories of the deceased. He can forgive each sin, because he has a childhood sin of his own, that has haunted him for so long, that he's almost incapable of human relations.
Fletcher (James Caviezel) is on the other side of the scale. He is leading a group of activists, who want the memory recording banned. The see, that people have the right to execute their relationships without of fear of being recorded. Fletcher sees his big break, when he learns that Alan has the recording of hot shot lawyer of the implant company. There surely must be sins in his closet, which could be used to drive his cause.
'The Final Cut' is more a film about the human memory: how we remember things and what we remember. There isn't much of action and the film doesn't need that. The plot is interesting enough to carry through and the actors do very good job through out the film.
On the minus side the film is very short, only 1 and half hours, which leads on that other characters besides of Alan stay very underdeveloped, like his girlfriend Delila (Mira Sorvino), who had the opportunity of bringing interesting side plot to the film, but was never really used.
All in all good, well directed film, which could have been a bit longer.