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End of Days

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 33 critic reviews
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Based on 7 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Andrew W. Marlowe
Directed by: Peter Hyams
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 24, 1999
DVD: April 18, 2000
Running Time: 121 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for intense violence and gore, a strong sex scene and language
Starring Arnold Shwarzenneger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak, and Renee Olstead
As the millennium approaches, Satan (Byrne) has returned to Earth to search for a woman (Tunney) to bear his child. It is body guard and former policeman Jericho Cane's (Schwarzenegger) duty to protect her from harm.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
May prove too dark to make the list of Schwarzenegger's biggest hits. But the movie suggests the actor still has a lot to offer -- and he's willing to take some chances, too. Welcome back, Arnold.
Read Full Review >TNT RoughCut Christopher Brandon
A devilishly fun blow-em-up that pits The Terminator vs. The Fallen One.
Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
Arnold has a gem for the third millennium in End of Days.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
It's good to see Schwarzenegger doing his thing again after what, for him, was a long sabbatical.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Frequently silly, yet eminently more watchable than such leaden Schwarzenegger efforts as ''Eraser.''
Read Full Review >Film.com Robert Horton
Beginnings don't come much more lurid than this, and the rest of End of Days never quite reaches this level of flat-out wildness again.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
A hokey, overblown and deeply unsatisfying movie.
Newsweek David Ansen
It's not as cool as it sounds.
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Peter Hyams, a pretty good cinematographer but a mediocre director, goes to work on a script by Andrew W. Marlowe that's designed to carry us from one bit of hyperbole to the next.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
An overblown, overspectacular, oversold movie without an original idea in its head.
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Not a campy film, but it revels in extremes, and has the same sort of appeal.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
There are forces here you couldn't possibly comprehend...You can say that again.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
Nothing worse than a silly movie that takes itself seriously, that bores us to death while we wait for the finale that comes too late.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
It seems endless. It's also unusually crude and stupid, even for an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
Read Full Review >USA Today Andy Seiler
The actors take a back seat to computer-generated demonic images and apocalyptic special effects.
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Best laugh at the movies all autumn.
Washington Post Desson Thomson
All fire-and-brimstone bunk, a tired compendium of involuntary crucifixions, grim messages carved into human flesh, fly buzzings, ominous choral chants on the soundtrack and at least one head twisting.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
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. Seeing him try for "sad" is like watching a dog try to talk.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego
The movie equivalent of the fruitcake you get every year from the folks back home. It's brick-heavy and full of nasty bits you don't want to put in your mouth, lovingly wrapped in pink cellophane.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Too bad (Arnold) can't save the movie from it's superstitious clap-trap, sadistic violence, and sheer silliness.
Read Full Review >Film.com John Hartl
Full of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing, End of Days is the loudest and least of the year's end-of-the-world movies.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Such a witless, bombastic, by-the-numbers hunk of millennial hooey it made me nostalgic for Commando. This one throws in every hoary hellfire cliché.
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
I do have one overpowering Y2K fear: that Hollywood will keep belching out movies as excruciatingly dull, brutal, mindless and overlong as End of Days.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
Idiotic, ugly and ridiculous.
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
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's it's all you can do not to giggle helplessly.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Steven S gave it a7:
There is much worse movies than this, I think this movie is decent, it might be a bit cheesy in places but it beats watching some cheesy crap like Deuce Bigalow or something... it doesn't really deserve all the crap it's dished up, Gabriel Byrne is good, he's a great actor.
Bit Burn gave it an8:
I thought it was aiight. Well acted, good story line.
Andrew M. gave it a 7:
Dark and heady, staid and sardonic, End Of Days is all these things. While watching, you feel the sense of evil that is purposefully awashed over this whole film, but you also realise that it's not really serious about it all. Byrne is a very good Dark Lord, Arnie fills his saint-like character's shoes admirably, and Steiger as always acts brilliantly as the man-of faith. I thought the effects were strong and enhanced the experience, while the screenplay was fairly solid, without excelling. The directing too was impressive, with some genuinely brooding moments and a couple of wham-bam scares. This film does most things right but, somehow, it's still a fairly forgettable experience. Not a film you'll be thinking about for days to come. For these reasons I give it a good score, but not a top score!
Magesh J. gave it a 10:
It is great and wonderful and superb.
