The Final Cut (2004) Critic Reviews

Williams has extraordinary success in channeling this other person. Read the full review

So fascinating and has so many implications that it balances out some real flaws in the story.Read the full review

Naim directs The Final Cut as if it were the pilot to a TV series: He teases the audience with all sorts of story threads, focuses on a minor self-contained mystery, and leaves the rest for future episodes that will never come.Read the full review

Quiet and sleepy. Read the full review

The thriller with a promising premise fails to deliver. Read the full review

The core of the movie is a satirical political thriller that juxtaposes dual points of view that could be described in cinematic terms as "It's a Wonderful Life" versus "Chinatown." The digressions should have been pared away. Read the full review

Striking visuals help, but pic won't make the final cut with either genre fans, who've seen it all and better before, or the arthouse crowd, who will sneer at pic's cliches.Read the full review

Williams gives a performance that's honest and carefully wrought but on some level still a stunt. All that courtliness is wearing him out, and it's wearing us out too. Read the full review

Cut-and-dried sci-fi thriller. Read the full review