End of Days

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Summary: Chicago: It's official: I'm never sleeping again.
Review: End of Days was apparently Arnold Schwarzneggar's "come-back" movie, after his heart surgery. And no doubt, after he's done with being mayor of California or whatever he is, he'll have another "come-back" movie - maybe a Terminator 4?

Arnold Schwarzneggar plays an alcoholic ex-cop, who lost his wife and child and has been hitting the bottle ever since. This movie is partly based on the Book of Revelations, from the Bible, which of course we have all read. To refresh all our memories, at the end of the millennium, Satan will come and impregnate a young women, and bring about the "end of days" - which just so happens to be the title. There's a lot of religious clap-trap in this, which makes me think of Stigmata (which funnily enough, also has Gabriel Byrne in it), and also has a lot of shock effects, and is as pumped up as Arnie. The whole movie is slightly over the top, and has been described as being The Omen on steroids. Of course. Having never seen it, I can't comment.

However, there is a bit of every film thrown in here. It's extremely similar to The Exorcist, Stigmata (you see bit-part characters undergoing receiving the various stigmatas), and I had some very extreme déjà vu, when it came to a scene featuring a train - totally stolen from Speed.

I was looking forward to seeing Robin Tunney in this, as I thought she was terrific in The Craft. I got a shock when I saw her, as she has drastically changed in three years, between making The Craft, and co-starring alongside Arnie. In The Craft, she was young, pretty and blonde. In End of Days, she's now has a brunette elfin crop. She's instantly recognisable, as she's still got a certain flawless beauty about her, which will make most guys drool, and every girl feel jealous, and desperately try to see some little imperfection. Believe me I was looking - couldn't see even a small blemish.

As said by Robin in the extras, you just need to mention the name Gabriel Byrne to any women, and they will blush and go all girly. I didn't blush thank you very much, but he does have a certain je ne sais quoi (love that phrase) about him. He seems very charming, but frankly, for me, it's the accent. Which unfortunately, you don't get to hear actually in the film, as it's well and truly not there, but in the extras, he speaks in his natural 'Orish' accent and had me going quietly mad. I love Irish accents anyway, so it doesn't matter who it is! Unusually, he plays the bad guy in this, as Satan takes over his body, and he goes after Robin.

This is your typical Arnie movie. He gets to show off his pumped-up body to the max, and gets to protect the little heroine. It's quite funny to watch, and see Arnie, all muscles, and then there's petite Robin, who seems all skin and bone.

If you watch through the credits, you will see how much entourage Arnie has - for heavens sake, he has a costumer, a dialogue coach (why?!), personal security, all the hair and make up people, plus god knows what else.

I was quite impressed to see Stan Winston was also involved in this, but to be honest, he doesn't really have much to do until the grand finale - but it's worth waiting for, cos he goes all out. It's not like the Terminator movies, where you see one of his creations every few scenes.

The extras are pretty basic. You've got an overly long - except it's only just over 20 minutes - spotlight on location; 9 special effects clips; an advertisement for the soundtrack (which features Eminem?!), and two never before seen, very rare videos, which frankly, shouldn't have seen the light of day they were that bad. ("Everlast" music video, and "Superbeast" by Rob Zombie - as soon as I saw him, I put it off!) The "Everlast" music video wasn't so bad; it showed a lot of the scenes from the film. You also get a very strange theatrical trailer - it doesn't really tell you a lot about the film, just a lot of strange flashes from the film, and then boom, you're left wanting more.

Having read a couple of reviews about this, after watching the movie (one particular one says you'll want to gouge your eyes out after viewing this movie), I won't be surprised if I get told that I have no taste in movies, and this film was rubbish etc etc. Big wow. I like bad movies, alright? I thought this movie was reasonably good, complete with a fairly freaky plot. Hey, you never know, it could happen. But then by babbling about Satan, I will get sucked into all this religious stuff, and I'll regret it. So lets just say Gabriel Byrne makes a nice Satan! I wouldn't say no.

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Summary: 60% of the potential used, Still a GREAT MOVIE!
Review: Man this movie had tons of potential, it had Arnie. AR-NULD, let me lay this out... The Governor of California verus the lord of hell himself, Satan. It's like "Freddy vs. Jason" but with two of the biggest bad-asses with the badess reputation. I mean Freddy is the kind of nightmares and Jason is the bad zombie from hell but Arnie... and Satan thats a good match-up. Unfortunately 'Freddy vs. Jason" Was alot better with graphics and how it was filmed, this movie wasn't as good in those subjects but it's plot was alot better, a little old but better.

Arnie is a alcholic cop, his name is Jericho and he is supposed to protect this stock broker, as a body guard. Little does he and his cop buddy Chicago (Kevin Pollack) know that the stock broker is actually Satan. When a priest tries to murder him. Arnie and Kevin Pollack are on the case like that. So he finds out that Satan is on earth to cause the armegeddon of the world aka End of days. So Arnie has to stop satan from impregenating this chick that will carry his son. The Anti-Christ.

Great movie, the effects are nothing to brag about. but they are good enough. I hope you rent this or buy this movie. Have fun!

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Summary: The End of Your Day.
Review: The low down of this movie is simply that while it looks promising based on its special effects, it's rather mediocre. A silly plot with stale characters more than puts this movie down. While sitting down and watching this movie you notice a few things that for one reason or another don't make any sense.

Arnold plays a cop named Jericho who must save a virgin girl from Satan before the new millenium comes. Very simplistic but it isn't really that part that sends the movie tumbling. Sure the plot is pretty bad but the way it unfolds is even worse.

First, there are the puzzles and twists that don't ever really come together with this film. The first being when our main character confronts someone in the underground subway and his toungue is sliced out. Well, the first mistake is one: You can still see his toungue, the second part is after they find the toungue its STILL in his mouth scenes later. So that only shows bad film editing. The second part that proves weak in the story is how Arnold's character Jericho finds the girl he's supposed to protect. When he finds the same one he met in the underground subway dead it reads on his chest "Christ in New York". Well, within three minutes he figures out its supposed to read "Christine York". This makes sense though the film never touches on how he really came to that conclusion he just knows (that and it seems the "W" at the end of "New" wasn't neccesary).

The acting is subpar. Not exactly bad but that isn't to say its good either. Some parts are done well and others are not. Arnold's role as a man who lost his daughter and wife because he wasn't there, loses his faith in God and now wants to die. You don't really feel much sympathy for Arnold's character at all because he isn't realistic enough (he takes a piece of pizza off the ground along with other household trash shoves it into a blender and makes an alchaholic drink out of it!). The character is there but the emotion is not.

The special effects are nice and great to look at but can that really separate from the fact that the story/plot and characters were bad? You can't grow to love these characters but at least the special effects will keep you in your seat watching the movie. Though believe me, watching Arnold trying to cry not only looks bad but the fact that you also don't see any tears is bad. Like I said, the character is there but the emotion is not.

End of Days is an exceptionally bad movie. It has its moments but only shines because of special effects. This is a movie you pass up after seeing just once because it offers nothing more than some cool looking effects but unloveable plot and characters.

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Summary: incredible!
Review: this was one amazing film! i think Arnie played the part well. it was a great story line and i honestly could watch it over!

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Summary: This Film Will Be Great Till The 'The End of Days'
Review: This film is entirely underated, Why people hate it so beats me. But I thought that it was great in the sense of religous versus non-religous perspectives. It includes a great cast and the DVD extra features arent that bad either. (I absolutely love the trailer.) The Devils playground feature is very interesting.

End of Days is about a Cop thats down for the count and has lost faith in god (Schwarzenegger)When his partner and him get assigned to protect a stock broker (I think) all hell breaks lose, a priest trys to assasinate the broker. Well Ar-nuld starts to investigate condsidering that he took a shot in the vest during the shoot out. So as Arnold gets deeper and deeper into the case disturbing events and creepy stuff happens. Soon Arnold realizes that the Stock Broker who was trying to protect was infact Satan himself. Satan had come to earth to impregnate a chosen woman so that she would give birth to his anti-christ son causing the end of days.

A great movie with great effects, I absolutely love that score to it. It gives a creepy feeling to this action/horror film. This is one of the movies that I wouldn't mind buying. Many people disagree with me on if it is good of not but in my opinion it is. If your a Arnold fan or a person that just wants to watch a good movie get this movie.

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Summary: Faintly Entertaining Tosh
Review: Basically this is a variant on the "Rosemary's Baby", "The Omen" theme. But while "Omen" was about the Spawn of Satan's early childhood and RB was about his time in the womb, this one goes back still further and follows Satan's attempt to fertilize the Chosen Ovum in the first place where the Chosen Ovum hangs out in the interior of Robin Tunny's Christine York. In order to do this what he does is take over the body of Gabriel Byrne's investment banker and proceeds to wander round New York looking sinister using his devilish charisma to perform a few small acts of seduction - for practice presumably - and, like an over the top parody of a Bond villain, killing off most of his agents for being such bunglers. Not that he does much better...

Now of course you and I and everyone knows what to do when someone in North America finds themselves possessed by his Hornedness and up to no good. Yes, of course, you give Max von Sydow a 'phone or someone similarly saintly, scholarly and distinguished and he of course will sort it all out. But not in this movie. According to this movie, what you really need to fight the Devil is really big muscles and lots of firearms. The Devil doesn't actually much mind being shot but never mind, what you need is Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jericho Cane (o please!), hard-drinking badass action hero security specialist who will sort everything out no bother. The result is very, very silly.

Now this of course is a supernatural thriller and a distinguishing feature of films that genre is that it is not necessarily the end of the world (if you'll forgive the expression) if they are silly: our darkest fears often are. But this is REALLY silly and too lacking in redeeming features to get away with it. It has one or two. Well, two. One is Gabriel Byrne. My suspicion was that he realized early enough what a turkey this would be and decided at least he was going to enjoy himself - which is seems very thoroughly to be doing. In a film which takes itself far too seriously he is about the only person involved whose tongue is anywhere near his cheek. Two of course is Rod Steiger as the most important of several priests inevitably caught up in the plot -though he is criminally underused (Why not just make him the hero and lose Arnie?) And in its brainless way it's not so bad if all you want is to be mildly entertained for a couple of hours. But if you want to be scared, even a little, forget it.

If the hero is unsatisfactory, the heroine is even more so: Tunney as Satan's intended whom Arnie spends the whole movie rescuing is lacklustre in the extreme. Personally if I was the Prince of Darkness, I think I would have beter taste and go for someone who was a bit less of a drip. Worst of all is the writing, which is sometimes excruciating. PArticularly painful is the scene in the subway when Victor Varnado's scary (supposedly) mysterious albino hassles Tunney, leaning over her and grinningly saying: "He's coming for you, Christine. He's going to f... you." AT which point, for no particular reason, he spontaneously explodes. I can just about imagine the writer thinking this would be an incredibly creepy and scary scene but only on the hypothesis that he was a little boy of about 10. As I may already have mentioned, it is all very silly.

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Summary: A Very Godly Movie
Review: I don't know why the ratings were so low? Can they atleast focus on the message this movie is trying to explain. The writer wanted show about, that Satin uses tainted truths and preys on our weaknesses to destroy man from inside out! This movie is not mean't too be a violent money making, well digitaly comprised with lots of explostion effects. But i'm really glad that the movie was well acted & action packed & lots of blood witch help to bring the seriousness & spiritual depth too the movie!

"Note to buyers" If your a true christian you would be moved by this movie.
"You your an Atheists. Forget it. You would hate this movie!"

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Summary: the govenor vs. the devil
Review: now the govenor of New York, Arnold, fights the devil in order to stop the end of days. who will win, well they both die, the govenor throws himself onto a sword and sends the devil(who took Gabriel Brynes body and played around with it) pack to the pits of hell. a good match but the govenor made the most punch. some suckerpunches along the way as well.

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Summary: save me god
Review: If my memory serves me correct, this film opened in theatres on new years eve. What a way to bring the new year. The audience must have been hoping it was really the end of the world. The worst film of last millenium.

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Summary: Schwarzenegger is a powerhouse!!!
Review: I was shocked when I saw all the terrible reviews for "End of Days." This movie was great! Schwarzenegger is a powerhouse (as always, of course), Byrne excels in his role of Satan, and Tunney is outstanding. I highly recommend this movie to Schwarzenegger fans and action fans alike!