‘Final Cut’ Cannes Review: Come to the World’s Classiest Film Festival to See Barfing, Pooping Zombies!
thewrap.comZ began to be used as a symbol of support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film is now called “Coupez!” in France.A remake of the 2017 Japanese horror-comedy “One Cut of the Dead,” “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.Like the original Japanese film, “Final Cut” takes place in three parts.
In the first, we watch a cheesy horror movie start to unfold, with a pair of terrible actors struggling to act suitably frightened.
The director (Romain Duris) yells cut, screams at his actors and then storms off the set – and while they’re waiting for him to calm down, the makeup artist (Berenice Bejo) tells the actors that the foreboding building where they’re filming was the site of human experiments by the Japanese army in World War II, and that legend says the living dead can still be summoned.If you’ve ever seen a horror movie, you don’t need to be told that things go haywire from there.
But beyond the zombie attacks and the plucky crew members who fight back while screaming things like “post-apocalyptic piece of s—!,” the opening stretch is just plain weird.
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