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End of Days (1999)

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11

Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 99
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 88

An overblown thriller with formulaic action scenes and poor acting.

4

Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 23

An overblown thriller with formulaic action scenes and poor acting.

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41

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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 119,987

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Movie Info

1999 proved a banner year for screen portrayals of Satan's love life: first his relationship with Saddam Hussein went under the microscope in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, and a few months later his search for a girl to settle down with became the basis of this thriller. With the millennium approaching, a series of disturbing signs suggests that Satan (here played by Gabriel Byrne) has returned to Earth and is walking the streets of New York City. It seems that Satan needs to find a

R, 2 hr. 2 min.

Action & Adventure, Horror

Andrew W. Marlowe

Apr 18, 2000

Universal Pictures

Cast

All Critics (117) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (90) | DVD (22)

Displaying precisely the imagination that gave the world such epic achievements as The Star Chamber and The Relic, Hyams dusts off America's designated import and goes with Arnie Schwarzenegger his own self.

March 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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End of Days keeps asking whether faith or force will save the human race, before hedging its bets and insisting on both. Neither will be enough to save relics like Hyams and Schwarzenegger from their long, affluent drift into irrelevance.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment (1)
Salon.com
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As incoherent about its mysticism as it is about anything else.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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Think of End of Days as Hollywood's own Y2K bug.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Boston Globe
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You'll walk out of End of Days wanting to pick a fight with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's how bad this flick is.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Dallas Morning News
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Schwarzenegger fans will probably be pleased, action lovers won't be bored, and the Catholic League will be angry. Everyone else will see End of Days for what it is: a deliciously bad motion picture.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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Tired dud of an over-the top violent action movie.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

The movie pits Arnold Schwarzenegger against the devil (Gabriel Byrne), with director Peter Hyams delivering tense moments of action amid not-so-subtle choices for character development.

August 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | Comment
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

The plot is such hooey...and the plot holes so gaping that End of Days proves more exasperating than enjoyable. [Blu-Ray]

August 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment

Never rises to the realm of exciting.

October 21, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

Part of the degraded charm of End of Days is its buffet-table derivative approach.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Starts by stealing bad ideas from other movies, then it putsthem together in the wrong order and casts the wrong actors to play the parts. In other words, it's one of the worst movies I've seen this year.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

End of Days isn't complete waste of time but all those who watch it would probably agree that this film's days were numbered long time ago.

February 14, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Sort of like listening to that old Toto album tucked away somewhere in your music collection. You remember thinking you used to like this kind of stuff, but you can't quite recall why.

July 2, 2003 Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | Comment
Kalamazoo Gazette

A lot of fun, but not a great movie.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

Idiotic beyond the point of redemption, this sinfully stupid farrago manages to insult audiences and critics, Christians and Satanists alike, reducing 2000 years of fertile mythology to the level of an incoherent pop video.

December 2, 2002 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | Comment
Sight and Sound

Loud, lurid, bloody and ridiculously entertaining.

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | Comment
Cincinnati Enquirer
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Audience Reviews for End of Days

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Somehow this ends up being a pretty interesting story and one of Arnold's better performances, he plays a smart ass cop pretty well. Sure, it has nothing on The Exorcist or The Omen, but it's about as good as you could expect an action horror movie to be. There are some really nice sequences and at the end of the day

April 21, 2010
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Super Reviewer

    1. The Man: For a thousand years you've waited for my return. Behold, you have failed. And with your dying breath, you will bear witness to the End of Days.
    – Submitted by Adrian G (3 months ago)
    1. Jericho Cane: Oh, you think you're bad, huh? You're a fucking choir boy compared to me! A CHOIR BOY!
    – Submitted by Adrian G (3 months ago)
    1. Jericho Cane: Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I'll take the Glock.
    – Submitted by Adrian G (3 months ago)

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