The Final Cut (1995)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Roger Christian

Writers (WGA):

Crash Leyland (story)
Raul Inglis (screenplay)

Release Date:

1995 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller | Action | Drama

Plot:

Mysterious bomber is planting explosive devices in Seattle. Since their quality takes too big a toll among Seattle Police bomb experts...

Plot Keywords:

Bomb Squad | Video Surveillance | Bombing | Wet T Shirt | Shopping Mall

Cast

Sam Elliott	...	John Pierce
Charles Martin Smith	...	Capt. Weldon Mamet
Kelly Benson	...	Dead Body
Anne Ramsay	...	Sgt. Kathleen Hardy
Lloyd Berry	...	Loscalzo
Matt Craven	...	Emerson Lloyd
Ray Baker	...	Col. Forsyth
Frank Cassini	...	Bartender
Barbara Tyson	...	Veronica Waller
Mike Crestejo	...	Driver
Lisa Langlois	...	Sara
Erich Anderson	...	Talberg
Bill Ferguson	...	Shopper
Michael David Simms	...	Franklin Dunn
Philip Granger	...	Barron

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and a sex scene.

Runtime:

UK:96 min | USA:88 min | Argentina:95 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Netherlands:12 (TV rating) | Netherlands:16 (original rating) | Germany:16 | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | UK:18 | USA:R | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Cine Cut Films Inc.

Goofs:

Plot holes: If Colonel Forsyth is flown in as an outside military expert, then why does he have a local residence, particularly with the basement as shown?

Soundtrack:

That River

Maybe that's Seattle BC...

Nifty little nail biter in which much of the cast gets blown to bits before the film ends. Doesn't really matter because there isn't one household name there. If you like high tech bombs with winking, blinking countdown devices, this is your film. (Nobody ever explained why the bad guys always wire up 5.95 Walmart digital clocks to their high tech explosives in these things.) However I take strong exception to two aspects. One is the lingering and needlessly explicit humping scene. This is a movie about bombs, people; not sex and handcuffs. If you like kinky sex, you probably don't want to watch things blowing up and if you do like seeing things blown up, you probably consider the bondage and the bonking a distraction. The other is the setting. The film was shot in Vancouver but set in Seattle. If they made the damned thing in Vancouver, why couldn't they have set the action there? When will Canadians demand that our cities stop serving as surrogates for American ones? I think we should demand that the CBC go to New York and use it for a movie about Toronto! Turnabout is fair play and all that...