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End Of Days

1999, Movie, R, 123 mins

End Of Days: Review

END OF DAYS
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Have you ever noticed that if you flip the notorious number of the Beast, 666, you get 999? In dreams and revelations, numbers often appear upside down or reversed, explains a brusque but learned priest, Father Novak (Rod Steiger). So forget that hooey about the anti-Christ's 666 birthmark and start worrying about New Year's Eve 1999, when the Prince of Evil will come to claim his bride. If that notion doesn't scare the bubble right out of your champagne, you're probably not the audience for this cross between THE OMEN and a Chick tract, in which the world is going to hell unless Arnold Schwarzenegger accepts Jesus as his personal savior. Jericho Cane (Schwarzenegger) is a suicidal ex-cop haunted by the murder of his family; he and his partner (Kevin Pollack) work for an NYC-based security firm, which gives him access to a lot of fire power that will come in very handy indeed. Hired to protect an expensively dressed Wall Street muckety-muck (Gabriel Byrne), Cane is plunged into a disturbing case involving a sniper priest and the beautiful Christine York (Robin Tunney), a young woman who's being tormented by grotesque visions and pursued by a squad of holy hitmen. Christine, it ensues, was chosen at birth to bear Satan's child, who must be conceived between 11 pm and midnight on New Year's Eve; Satan (in the skin of that nameless Wall Street guy) is hell-bent on making their unholy date. This could be devilish fun, but director/cinematographer Peter Hyams slows the action to a ponderous crawl, and for all the gray-on-gray production design and murky photography, the movie lacks a sense of bone-chilling dread. Gabriel Byrne seizes the occasional opportunity to make hay as the devil, seducing and tempting and being just plain wicked, but even he winds up smothered by the apocalyptic gloom. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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