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End of Days (1999)
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Reviews Counted:98
Fresh:11
Rotten:87
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: An overblown thriller with formulaic action scenes and poor acting.
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: The blood-soaked story of a twenty-year-old girl (Tunney) who has nightmares about a mysterious man. Security guard Jericho (Schwarzenegger) finds himself caught up in the situation when he... The blood-soaked story of a twenty-year-old girl (Tunney) who has nightmares about a mysterious man. Security guard Jericho (Schwarzenegger) finds himself caught up in the situation when he discovers that Satan (Byrne) is roaming the streets of New York City, trying to mate with the girl in the millennium's final hour. If he manages to impregnate her during these sixty minutes, she will give birth to the anti-Christ, who will put an end to the world forever. [More]
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Pollak, Robin Tunney
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Pollak, Robin Tunney, CCH Pounder, Udo Kier
Director: Peter Hyams
Director: Peter Hyams
Screenwriter: Andrew W. Marlowe
Producer: Armyan Bernstein, Bill Borden
Composer: John Debney
Reviews for End of Days
This could be devilish fun, but director / cinematographer Peter Hyams slows the action to a ponderous crawl.
We're treated to such a broad panoply of godawful dialogue, righteously shoddy acting, and, worst of all for an action blockbuster of this sort, subpar effects work, that it's all you can do not to giggle helplessly.
85 percent explosions and editing idiocy (a window can't break without director Peter Hyams cutting between five different angles) and 15 percent Arnold trying to grow a third dimension.
End of Days is an overblown, overspectacular, oversold movie without an original idea in its head.
There are moments in End of Days when Schwarzenegger seems to be gunning for an Oscar. Those moments play like comic relief.
You'll walk out of End of Days wanting to pick a fight with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's how bad this flick is.
Easily one of the worst movies of 1999, End of Days is absolutely insufferable.
Many sins have been committed in the name of religion; End of Days ranks as the latest.
The acting is hammy, all the 666 Book of Revelations stuff has been worn out since The Omen, and the film never quite focuses on anything long enough to build up any pseudo-religious creeps.
A studio-manufactured product with no reason for being other than to exploit millennial angst, this film is better titled End of Schwarzenegger.
It's not strong on substance (though it could have been), still, I don't think you'll have a bad time.
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