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The Final Cut

Release Date: 
03/22/2005
MPAA Rating: 
MPAA: PG-13
Star Rating: 
★★★
Where we're having trouble remembering last night, the people who trust Robin Williams in The Final Cut lose certain moments forever. Williams' "cutter" uses a chip implanted in the brain at birth to edit the positive memories of his clients into tidy "rememories" to play at their funerals. Lame terminology aside, it's a decent Big Brother-type thriller—we only wish we could permanently erase the tedious extras from our memory. Brief segments on product design and the film's limited special effects provide standard crew interviews. "From Preproduction to Screen" offers two scenes with a trio of views—one of the storyboards, one of the on-set shoot, and one of the feature—and is about as interesting as a Robin Williams monologue. Speaking of which, the behind-the-scenes featurette catches his between-takes ramblings as the rest of the crew fake smiles. There's also a bundle of deleted scenes that didn't make The Final Cut (get it!), and that shouldn't take much effort to forget.