Synopsis
Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.
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Cast
- Romain DurisRémi / Higurashi
- Bérénice BejoNadia / Natsumi
- Grégory GadeboisPhilippe / Hosoda
- Finnegan OldfieldRaphaël / Ken
- Matilda LutzAva / Chinatsu
- Raphaël QuenardJonathan / Akira
- Luàna BajramiJohanna
- Sébastien ChassagneArmel / Yamakoshi
- Lyes SalemMounir
- Simone HazanaviciusRomy
Recommendations
- 80
The Telegraph
For shoestring charm, One Cut of the Dead remains unbeaten, but Final Cut brings off the same hugely satisfying Tetris symphony of emotional and narrative blocks falling into place. - 79
TheWrap
Final Cut is silly and excessive and completely over-the-top, but it also brings out the lightness and deftness of Hazanavicus’ touch with comedy; the director somehow manages to fling body parts and bodily excretions at the audience for almost two hours, and yet you leave feeling as if you’ve seen a feel-good movie. - 70
IGN
Based on the scrappy Japanese zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead, Michel Hazanavicius’ Final Cut is a more polished version — for better and for worse — but it’s just as fun and self-reflexive, while also leaning into its remake status for a few added laughs. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Clever and giddily entertaining ... Hazanavicius is smart enough to apply an if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it approach, keeping nearly everything intact except for the language and cast. - 70
Screen Daily
Fans of zombie spoofs and films-about-films should enjoy this bauble, which is elevated by the cheery ensemble. - 60
The Guardian
The result is something appreciably sillier and more eccentric than the original ... It’s certainly far from the sophistication and gloss for which Hazanavicius became famous ten years ago with his silent pastiche The Artist; it’s closer to his spy spoof series OSS 117. But it’s likeable and goofy. - 42
IndieWire
Slack and shambling ... Often hectic and sometimes heartfelt but very seldom funny, “Final Cut” is disappointing because it lacks the boldness of the original, yet even more so because it abjectly foregoes the kind of “fuck it, we’ll do it live!” creative mania that it’s meant to embody. Some of the movie’s jokes are just too well-constructed to fail, but too few of them land hard enough for the movie itself to succeed. - 40
Slashfilm
When "Final Cut" works, it's mostly because it just repeats what "One Cut of the Dead" did, and as ill-conceived as this film is, the jokes still land. Of course, that only says more about the success of the original film than this one. The problem is that, outside of the French market, it is hard to recommend this movie to anyone.
