Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Actor Bill Pullman had the misfortune of being in the two biggest and most confusing turkeys of 1997 following up Turkey #1 released in February of that year "Lost Highway" with Turkey #2 " The End of Violence" seven months later.Big time movie producer Mike Max, Bill Pullman, who specializes in making ultra violent movies become himself a victim of violence when he's kidnapped by two carjackers who are about to blow his brains out without even bothering to send,to Max's loved ones, a ransom note! As things turn out it's the carjackers who end up with their heads blown off not Mike who's later found by a group of friendly Mexican migrant workers lead by their leader Juan Emilio,Henry Silva,who take the barley alive Mike in as one of their own.It's when your trying to figure out what this is all about in pops computer whiz Ray Bering, Gaberiel Byrne, who watches on his over 250 TV screens in the Griffith Observatory everything that's happening in the L.A metropolitan area and sees the situation that Mike finds himself in. As we soon find out Ray had been trying to get in touch with Mike in having him make a movie about the end of violence in the US in the many hidden and exposed cameras being installed by the US Government that can catch almost anyone committing a crime and in the end have them brought to justice. Ray who's working for a super secret US government organization that spies on its people has been getting second thoughts in if he's doing the right thing for his country and wants, through Mike, to have the agency that he's working for exposed before it can do any more damage.While all this is going on Mike's old lady Pace, Andie MacDowell, is getting fed up with him in just how square or not with it he is and plans to dump him for her new boyfriend Gangsta Rap artist Six O One, K, Todd Freeman, who just happened to be in Mike's latest picture. Pace want's Mike out of her life but doesn't went to leave empty in not getting some of the millions that he has that she, in being in an adulterous affair, would never get in a divorce settlement that's if Mike even agrees to it! You begin to wonder if Pace together with Six O One had anything to do with Mike's kidnapping that has now backfired on them. Undercover as a Mexican fruit and vegetable picker Mike's soon finds out what all this, his kidnapping and attempted murder, is all about and that leads to a number of tragic events including the murder of Ray who want's desperately, in him making a movie for him, to get in touch with Mike. ***SPOILERS*** Ray in fact was tracked down not by Mike who tried to keep himself hidden all throughout the movie but LA detective Doc Block, Loren Dean, who's a big fan of Mike's movies and has been having an affair with one of the stars in his movies stunt woman and now aspiring actress Cat, Traci Lind. Before Ray can as much open his mouth and tell Doc what's going on he's shot from long range by one of the goons working for his boss Brice Phelps, Daniel Benzali. It's Phelps in his fear that Ray was going to expose what he and the government is up to in ending violence by unrestricted surveillance of the population used violence in order to shut him up.The movie ends on a high note with Mike now happy and unknown to the outside world as a poor 2 dollar an hour migrant farm worker starts a new life for himself that's far more peaceful and serene then the one, as a big time Hollywood producer, he lead before. Fruit and vegetable picker Mike is now eagerly looking forward to live and rub shoulders with the oppressed and downtrodden masses and is more then willing to give up his life as a multi-millionaire big time Hollywood producer that gave him, together with his ungrateful wife Page, nothing but trouble and headaches anyway! P.S Check out cult director Samuel Fuller as Ray's pepperoni pizza eating dad Louie Bering who passed away shortly after the movie "The End of Violence" was made.

rixrex Despite some very fine performances, the whole milieu of this doesn't ring true. As a parable of a sort, it could be acceptable, especially if the setting was a European country, but as set in the US, it is flawed.Wender's image of the US, while the big players in the film industry seem fairly on target, isn't altogether natural. The portrayals of different races is either too stereotypical to be realistic or overly simplistic. It's possible that this is intended as part of the commentary on the how violence can be controlled with the use of violence by the state, accompanied by the loss of privacy and certain liberties. As such, it is still a flaw.Quite believable is Henry Silva as the patriarch of a Hispanic working class family, not believable is his overly meek manner, as is the case with all the others in this group.Still, with the flaws, I'd recommend it for viewing for having a rather thought-provoking premise.

oust123456 This film was just shown on United Kingdom television at three o'clock in the morning and it took me totally by surprise as I had never even heard of this movie before. Its a good movie but I just wonder how much of an influence the David Lynch film "Lost Highway" had on the casting of Bill Pullman, he's a decent actor but whatever happened to his career? He seems to play these type of roles very well and its a nice surprise when Gabriel Byrne pops up on-screen. If you get the opportunity to watch this film then its definitely worth a look-in if you need to pass a few hours of time. Often the direction behind the film could be improved and their are some loose-ends which could really do with being tied up but some of the imagery and ideas are of sound mind and as thrillers go this is from a good period in the genre. As registered in the "Vote" section I could only give this film a six out of ten due to the average directing and loose-ends. If you like Lost Highway by David Lynch and also featuring Bill Pullman then "The End Of Violence" is another film you will enjoy

jojairus This film is more about people adapting to change than about thrills. Bill Pullman is a very successful producer who uses people. His wife decides to leave him, but at the same time he gets caught up in a bizarre plan to introduce a pre-emptive high-tech crime-intervention system based on the ubiquitous "Big Brother" cameras that we've all become so used to in the developed world. All though he actually knows nothing yet, he's targeted for assasination. He finds refuge with his Mexican gardeners, and, while trying to discover why he's now hunted he goes through an epiphany of his own. This film is full of lovely characterisations. It's much more than a conspiracy movie.