Final Cut (1998)
1/10
Total waste of a great cast
23 September 2005
Warning: Spoilers
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.
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