The World's End Reviews

"World's End" had me feeling like a grumpy interloper at someone else's raucous reunion.

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It's all I can do to stop myself from mentioning Lesbian Vampire Killers. (Oops! Too late.)

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A serious misfire, unfunny, unexciting, uninvolving and, perhaps the worst sin of all, incredibly self-indulgent to the detriment of the audience's enjoyment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The movie throws itself headlong toward the ridiculous when it begins to live up to its title.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The first 30 minutes had me hooked but when it turned into an over-the-top mashup of a sci-fi alien invasion flick you lost me, guys. Geeks will flock but so what?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

As a film whose central theme emphasizes the dangers of living in the past, Wright & co. become fatally distracted by nostalgia, eventually paying too much homage to previous classics to create a film that deserves to stand alongside them.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

The movie independently bungles everything it tries, like a Central Park busker who simultaneously sucks at juggling, harmonica playing and skateboarding.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The movie shifts midstream ... and never regains its footing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The film is witless, inspirationless and flogs its few recurring jokes till they whimper.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Life's too short to waste your time on this, even if the end isn't near.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Wright knows how to keep the energy spinning, but he also doesn't know when to stop.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The World's End, weighed down by ineffective, incoherent fight sequences and a repetitive second half, ultimately establishes itself as just another bloated and overblown summer blockbuster...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Simon Pegg is a funny man who can make any movie better with his performance, but not this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

After briefly catching comic lightning, the fun fades. Actor-screenwriter Simon Pegg and director-screenwriter Edgar Wright paint their characters into a pub corner.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Gets things all wrong, its sarcastic humor more often than not limp and its play for drama tone-deaf and overbearing when a lighter touch might have made a greater impact.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The comedy trio returns in a lesser effort, funny, but not up to their previous successes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

the first part of the movie is so good--so knowing and funny and raucous and even bittersweet in its depiction of male arrested development--that all the sci-fi silliness that runs rampant in the second part feels derivative and unnecessary

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Far from the crowning conclusion, the third serving of the Cornetto Trilogy melts slowly for 109 minutes, resolving into a gooey, sticky mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

If you're part of the group that's been anticipating this movie for more than five years, it may be a bit of a letdown.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

I went into The World's End hoping for the best, but the best I could summon up after about two hours were some encouraging smiles.

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