Final Cut

1998 "The camera never lies... it's a pity about friends"
5.9| 1h33m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 13 November 1998 Released
Producted By: Fugitive Features
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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A group of friends gather for a wake, and are shown a video shot by Jude and starring them before he dies. Things go rapidly downhill.

Genre

Drama, Thriller

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Director

Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis

Production Companies

Fugitive Features

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Final Cut Audience Reviews

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic
Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
ceylonic I had seen "Love, Honour & Obey" some years ago and remembered it as not that bad. It wasn't as original as "Trainspotting", as funny as it wanted to be and the gory scenes seemed a little too much just wanna be provocative, because it might look great on screen. But it was OK to watch.THIS FILM was not a little bit of of any of it. The poor quality was alright for the camera, because it belonged to the story - but unfortunately I could not find one character that could have awakened my interest. I watched a lot of stupid blokes doing stupid things and I don't belong to the people, who get off on watching women either being beaten by their boyfriends or portrayed as whores, who in the end get what they deserve. Oh - and Jude Law was so convincing that I was happy, when he eventually got killed. Actually the killing scene was not that bad.So far: matter of taste.The story was told in a confusing way, but you could get used to that. And why put so many characters on a film, if you then don't know what to do with them? But maybe they thought it wouldn't be necessary to develop characters because of all the cool violent scenes - why bother with a decent script?
junk-monkey Several vile people meet at the funeral of the utterly repulsive Jude to watch a film he has been secretly making of their lives. Many "revelations" later, and after every cast member has said "Fu*k!" about 300 times each, one of the assembled 'friends' is revealed to be Jude's murderer. The final puzzle of how the hell such an impressive cast was conned into making this piece of garbage is left unresolved.I learnt several things from this film: Ray Winston can say "Fu*k" more often and with more different infections in one movie than the average person will say in their whole lifetime.Sadie Frost couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag. Her final piece to camera is just embarrassingly awful. She is as about convincing as a distraught and grieving woman as Mother Theresa would be playing King Kong.But most impressively, I learnt you can rip 35mm film out of a camera, drag it half-way up a London street, then have armed policemen jump up and down on it - and still be able to develop it! (How else to explain the existence of the shot of Winston's character reaching toward the camera just before leaving the flat when in the next shot, from a different angle, we see the film containing that shot being ripped out of the camera).Avoid this movie.
bcheers I hadn't heard of this film and hired it with low expectations. It was with delight, therefore, that I found myself totally absorbed by this unusual and gripping story. The male actors, especially Jude Law were superb. The character of Ray (Ray Winstone) with his barely suppressed violent nature was one of the best seen on film for some time. I found the female actors to be below average, but good direction made them almost plausible. My idea of a good film is one which sits in my subconscious for some time after viewing. I woke up this morning still processing it in my mind and I think it will be there for some time yet.
Edgar L. Davis The premise of Final Cut is interesting. A man (Jude Law) diesand leaves behind a film for his friends to watch at his wake. Hiswife (Law's real life spouse Sadie Frost) is the Mistress ofCeremonies at this screening but we find out later that she ismuch more than that. The performances are riveting and the slowbuild of tension is tittilating but the pay off is a little disappointing.some of the violence and shock is laced with a sense of humor atfirst but soon it gets very serious then downright careless andcallouse. It is hard to root for any of these characters to succeed.They seem to have no redeeming value so when something badhappens to them you are relieved but the punishment is so easilyshaken off. Lots of mischief, revelation and loss but no hope orredemption.