Review - The Final Cut

This is one of the few times I’ve ever seen a movie’s high concept actually manage to keep driving the plot right to the end. Here the idea is that people get implants that allow them to record their entire lives. Then after they die, editors – called “Cutters” – reduce the recordings down to movie length so they can be shown at funeral services called “remembries.” The rippling effect this has on society supplies enough twists and turns for an hour and a half of fairly interesting movie. I didn’t even mind Robin Williams all that much. Here he finally seems to give the understated performance he’s been trying to pull off ever since he first began his attempts to shed his reputation for being a jittery clown. The production values are also good, especially for an indie. Worth seeing