The End of Violence Reviews
TheMovieReport.com
A disjointed mess where a lot goes on but nothing happens.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Zap2it.com
Boring, incoherent and insultingly didactic. It's like Wenders has never been to America, never observed Americans and never even seen an American movie.
| Original Score: 1/5
Top Critic
Boxoffice Magazine
Wenders' observations and subtextual commentary about violence in American society are well-served by the nuances of Nicholas Klein's script.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Cinema em Cena
A trama principal se perde em um emaranhado de cenas que, rigorosamente, nada acrescentam ao filme.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Spirituality and Practice
A sophisticated and pensive film about a subject that fills contemporary movies and fuels our fantasies.
Cinenganos
Las respuestas quedan flotando en el espectador, esperando ser rescatadas y entendidas.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Skip the movie but buy the CD.
| Original Score: 2/4
This goes on for two hours and two minutes. When I staggered out of the theater, I asked if Clinton was still president.
Film Journal International
The flippancy of Wenders and Nicholas Klein's script, and the lethargic performances of a star-studded cast, trivialize presumably good intentions.
San Francisco Examiner
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.
Needcoffee.com
A horrendous, useless, soulless, sprawling two hours of your life you will not get back.
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| Original Score: 0/5
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Often a pretentious struggle, saved only by the important, relevant theme that occasionally emerges.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Apollo Guide
We're left feeling disappointed that an opportunity to make a fine film was lost.
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| Original Score: 70/100
Jam! Movies
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.
| Original Score: 2/5
Flick Filosopher
It'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.
Compuserve
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.
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
On the acting front, Pullman and the little-seen Lind are terrific, as is MacDowell.
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| Original Score: 3/4
