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End of Days
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA 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.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Andrew W. Marlowe
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Peter Hyams
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 18, 2000
Video: April 18, 2000
Theatrical: November 24, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
121 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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...
75
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.
75
TNT RoughCut
Christopher Brandon
A devilishly fun blow-em-up that pits The Terminator vs. The Fallen One.
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
A credible action spectacular.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Arnold has a gem for the third millennium in End of Days.
60
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
For the most part it's a blast.
60
Variety
Todd McCarthy
It's good to see Schwarzenegger doing his thing again after what, for him, was a long sabbatical.
58
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Frequently silly, yet eminently more watchable than such leaden Schwarzenegger efforts as ''Eraser.''
50
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.
50
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A hokey, overblown and deeply unsatisfying movie.
50
Newsweek
David Ansen
It's not as cool as it sounds.
50
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.
50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
An overblown, overspectacular, oversold movie without an original idea in its head.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Not a campy film, but it revels in extremes, and has the same sort of appeal.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There are forces here you couldn't possibly comprehend...You can say that again.
40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Lacks a sense of bone-chilling dread.
40
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
Half-baked.
40
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.
38
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It seems endless. It's also unusually crude and stupid, even for an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
38
USA Today
Andy Seiler
The actors take a back seat to computer-generated demonic images and apocalyptic special effects.
33
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Best laugh at the movies all autumn.
30
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.
30
Film.com
Sean Means
Drab and depressing.
30
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
A dud.
30
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Two ridiculous blood-soaked hours.
30
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.
25
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.
25
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It's brain-dead start to finish.
25
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Too bad (Arnold) can't save the movie from it's superstitious clap-trap, sadistic violence, and sheer silliness.
20
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.
18
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.
12
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.
0
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
Idiotic, ugly and ridiculous.
0
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.
 The average user rating for this movie is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
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