It has its virtues -- Wenders is a skilled and thoughtful workman -- but hovers somewhere between a thriller and an art-house movie and won't fully satisfy fans of either.
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The End of Violence (1997)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:9
Rotten:24
Average Rating:4.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A Hollywood producer of violent action movies reflects on his ambitious, materialistic life after succumbing to the vagaries of street violence. His attack is captured on a new city-wide... [More]
Starring: Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne, Loren Dean
Director: Wim Wenders
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Reviews for The End of Violence
Offers viewers opportunities to ponder a variety of diverse subjects, but its overall entertainment value is less than one might hope for.
01/01/00
Top CriticA sophisticated and pensive film about a subject that fills contemporary movies and fuels our fantasies.
03/01/02
A disjointed mess where a lot goes on but nothing happens.
01/05/09
Doesn't seem sure what it is about, or how it is about it.
01/01/00
Top CriticOften a pretentious struggle, saved only by the important, relevant theme that occasionally emerges.
01/01/00
With The End of Violence Mr. Wenders has made a film as resonant as his most memorable work.
01/01/00
Top CriticDreary piece of post-modern funk.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's practically an antimovie, almost plotless, self-referential, and unsettling. It refuses to wrap up neatly or comfortingly. But it's one of the most provocative films in years.
01/01/00
If Wenders does not succeed in condemning the role of violence in movies (which was not his intention), he does unfold a work of intricate texture.
01/01/00
Consider the paradox: By the end of The End Of Violence, a preposterous film that rails against man's inhumanity toward man, you want to do violence. To the filmmaker.
01/01/00
A longwinded exercise in pretentious confusion.
07/12/02
Top CriticWenders' observations and subtextual commentary about violence in American society are well-served by the nuances of Nicholas Klein's script.
06/05/02
This goes on for two hours and two minutes. When I staggered out of the theater, I asked if Clinton was still president.
01/01/00
Top CriticA muddled, sentimental Euro-American hash, redeemed here and there from its fatal purposelessness by a few moments that remind us we're in the presence of a genuine cinematic visionary.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe flippancy of Wenders and Nicholas Klein's script, and the lethargic performances of a star-studded cast, trivialize presumably good intentions.
01/01/00
Las respuestas quedan flotando en el espectador, esperando ser rescatadas y entendidas.
09/03/01
Wenders has succeeded in creating a mishmash of incendiary images about government conspiracy theories, but leaves the story up in the air.
01/01/00
A meandering mess, a plodding dud.
01/01/00
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