End of Days
Universal Pictures | Release Date: November 24, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
13
Negative:
16
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
May prove too dark to make the list of Schwarzenegger's biggest hits. But the movie suggests the actor still has a lot to offer -- and he's willing to take some chances, too. Welcome back, Arnold. Read full review
75
TNT RoughCutChristopher Brandon
A devilishly fun blow-em-up that pits The Terminator vs. The Fallen One.
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
A credible action spectacular. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerDesmond Ryan
Arnold has a gem for the third millennium in End of Days. Read full review
60
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
For the most part it's a blast. Read full review
60
VarietyTodd McCarthy
It's good to see Schwarzenegger doing his thing again after what, for him, was a long sabbatical. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Frequently silly, yet eminently more watchable than such leaden Schwarzenegger efforts as ''Eraser.'' Read full review
50
New York PostJonathan Foreman
A hokey, overblown and deeply unsatisfying movie.
50
Film.comRobert Horton
Beginnings don't come much more lurid than this, and the rest of End of Days never quite reaches this level of flat-out wildness again. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Peter Hyams, a pretty good cinematographer but a mediocre director, goes to work on a script by Andrew W. Marlowe that's designed to carry us from one bit of hyperbole to the next. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
An overblown, overspectacular, oversold movie without an original idea in its head.
50
NewsweekDavid Ansen
It's not as cool as it sounds.
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Not a campy film, but it revels in extremes, and has the same sort of appeal. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
There are forces here you couldn't possibly comprehend...You can say that again. Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Nothing worse than a silly movie that takes itself seriously, that bores us to death while we wait for the finale that comes too late. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Lacks a sense of bone-chilling dread. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesEric Harrison
Half-baked. Read full review
38
USA TodayAndy Seiler
The actors take a back seat to computer-generated demonic images and apocalyptic special effects.
38
Boston GlobeJay Carr
It seems endless. It's also unusually crude and stupid, even for an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Read full review
33
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Best laugh at the movies all autumn.
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
All fire-and-brimstone bunk, a tired compendium of involuntary crucifixions, grim messages carved into human flesh, fly buzzings, ominous choral chants on the soundtrack and at least one head twisting. Read full review
30
Film.comSean Means
Drab and depressing. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
A dud. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
85 percent explosions and editing idiocy (a window can't break without director Peter Hyams cutting between five different angles) and 15 percent Arnold trying to grow a third dimension. Seeing him try for "sad" is like watching a dog try to talk. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Two ridiculous blood-soaked hours. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Too bad (Arnold) can't save the movie from it's superstitious clap-trap, sadistic violence, and sheer silliness. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
It's brain-dead start to finish. Read full review
25
San Francisco ExaminerWalter Addiego
The movie equivalent of the fruitcake you get every year from the folks back home. It's brick-heavy and full of nasty bits you don't want to put in your mouth, lovingly wrapped in pink cellophane. Read full review
20
Film.comJohn Hartl
Full of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing, End of Days is the loudest and least of the year's end-of-the-world movies. Read full review
18
Mr. ShowbizKevin Maynard
Such a witless, bombastic, by-the-numbers hunk of millennial hooey it made me nostalgic for Commando. This one throws in every hoary hellfire cliché.
16
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
I do have one overpowering Y2K fear: that Hollywood will keep belching out movies as excruciatingly dull, brutal, mindless and overlong as End of Days. Read full review
0
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
Idiotic, ugly and ridiculous.
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
We're treated to such a broad panoply of godawful dialogue, righteously shoddy acting, and, worst of all for an action blockbuster of this sort, subpar effects work, that's it's all you can do not to giggle helplessly. Read full review
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