Final

An unmistakably shoestring digital video feature with the heart of a lesser Twilight Zone episode, Final is an uneven, low-impact brain teaser about a mental patient (Denis Leary) who is convinced that he was cryogenically frozen in 1999 and is now a prisoner in the distant future, scheduled to die in a government experiment. A reasonably enticing psychological talker, most of the film takes place in Leary's sterile, near-empty hospital ward as he battles his vivid but incomplete delusions and matches wits with his outwardly compassionate doctor (Hope Davis). Unfortunately, both characters are a little bloodless, logical loopholes plague the last act, and the movie never fully realizes its genuine potential for greater depth and goosepimply plot developments. Optional. (R. Blackwelder)