End Game
Alex Thomas was the man in charge of protecting the president but, when the time came to fulfill his duties, everything just went wrong. His conscience haunted by a bullet, and his devotion to his country stronger than ever, Alex teams with a seasoned reporter to navigate a treacherous web of lies, unlocking a dangerous conspiracy, and enter a deadly world in which skilled assassins and highly-trained ex-special ops lurk in every shadow.
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- Cast:
- Cuba Gooding Jr. , Angie Harmon , James Woods , Patrick Fabian , Peter Greene , Jack Scalia , Anne Archer
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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Best movie ever!
The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
End Game has decent performances, but the plot is slow-paced, the editing is awful as the film feels like 2 hours and thirty minutes long when it is only actually 1 hour and thirty minutes.We follow this investigator throughout who may as well have the Black Death Plague as everyone she talks to ends up getting killed.This flick is so dull (even though it tries to be exciting) that you don't even care what happens by the end, they try to make the story line mysterious, but it is just tiring.This is not even a standard drama thriller, it's just a boring excuse for a thriller.
Angie Harmon who seems to have more success on the small then the big screen with Law&Order and Rizzoli&Isles to her credit teams up with Cuba Gooding, Jr. to investigate nothing less than the assassination of President Jack Scalia. In fact it was rather a freakish event in and of itself. The assassin's bullet passed through Secret Service Agent Gooding's hand and may have changed direction ever so slightly and killed Scalia. That's left Gooding bummed and looking for answers.Harmon plays an investigative reporter looking for the truth as well. But this particular president led a secret life as well along the lines of JFK and Gooding was the one who kept the secrets. He and Harmon team up for the investigation, but Gooding feels a loyalty to his former boss and wants to preserve his legacy. At some point they could be working at cross purposes.The action is exciting however the story had a lot of holes in it. Harmon and Gooding work well together. They could have used some better direction as well. Playing a most mysterious role is a retired general Burt Reynolds. He definitely knows more than he's letting out.Fans of the two leads should like this one.
I guess I'm the only one reviewing this excellent movie who thought it was very good, up there with the best of the conspiracy movies. I thought the script was well written, the dialogue pared down to essentials, characterisation of the protagonists was well thought out and the actors were all top notch, the directing was snappy and economical with a near documentary feel...shot on a grainy film..this added to the gritty feel of the movie (not face powder as one guy on the message board states...it's film grain!!).The plot was slowly revealed and the twists and turns unravelled nicely. A surprise ending....sexy leads and a cooking music score all added to my enjoyment, it held my attention and suspended my disbelief.A bluddy good film!
I caught this on TV the other week. It does have a strange, flat atmosphere, which I'd put down to the low budget, and yet there were a couple of things which lifted it out of the ordinary. One was the painting/perspective scene which set up the other: the double twist at the end. If you haven't seen it, then don't read on."Spoiler". I'm old enough to remember the assassination of John Kennedy and although I'm not a conspiracy buff (I do think Oswald acted alone) I think I've seen all the films and documentaries about the grassy knoll and the rest. The only theory I can't remember coming across is the idea put forward at the end of this movie. That the First Lady offed her husband because he was having an affair, and that she knew she'd get away with it because to reveal the truth would mean tarnishing the reputation of the dead president. Perhaps that doesn't have much credibility in this day and age, but, viewed in the Kennedy context, the ending does lift the film somewhat out of the commonplace.