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The End of Violence

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Producer Mike Max (Bill Pullman) has made a fortune through his gory action flicks, but his own capture at the hands of some thugs causes him to reexamine his role in violent productions. After escaping the crooks, he hides out with a group of gardeners, and eventually decides to drop out of Hollywood and stay with his new protectors. Meanwhile, government surveillance man Ray (Gabriel Byrne) uses a complex network of cameras to spy on Los Angeles, but he is disturbed by his superiors.
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Daniel Fienberg Zap2it.com 09/28/2005
1/5
Boring, incoherent and insultingly didactic. It's like Wenders has never been to America, never observed Americans and never even seen an American movie. Go to Full Review
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail 07/12/2002
2/4
A longwinded exercise in pretentious confusion. Go to Full Review
Jeff Millar Houston Chronicle 01/01/2000
This goes on for two hours and two minutes. When I staggered out of the theater, I asked if Clinton was still president. Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 10/28/2020
2/5
Wenders' Hollywood metaphor exploring voyeuristic societal issues at large is trapped by its fascinations with its own ideas. Go to Full Review
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid 03/27/2015
[Has] many potent moments. Go to Full Review
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com 01/05/2009
2/4
A disjointed mess where a lot goes on but nothing happens. Go to Full Review
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07/27/2022 The worst 02 hours: and 02 minutes ever, plus, the worst characters ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more hardy c 09/24/2021 Bull Pullman gives a good lesson in how to short circuit a promising career; follow up your star turn in "Independence Day" with this clunker. It begins promisingly enough but soon degenerates into a mess. The attempt to meld a government surveillance conspiracy (shades of Ed Snowden) with a Hollywood producer's failing marriage and botched kidnapping spawns a bastard child of confusing proportions. Throw in a horny detective, greedy lawyers, a sinister looking bald secret agent, Mexican gardeners with hearts of gold and a Guatemalan femme fatale and you get...well, nothing really. BY the end of this dud Pullman was looking forward to Independence Day Two (another dud). See more 08/28/2021 A very dull, confusing movie, It doesn't go anywhere See more 05/23/2020 I really did enjoy the end of violence. I do think it's pretty underrated. Bill Pullman plays a great character. Bill Pullman steals the show in pretty much most of the films he's been in. Bill Pullman was still pretty popular at the time. But yeah the end of violence is a pretty good movie. See more 12/02/2019 Maudlin, condescending, and preposterous. The idyllic Mexican peasants who have no speaking parts because they'd just background plot devices seemed wrong even way back in 1997. And it was hard not to snicker at security cameras with zooms lenses being the high-tech game-changing crime-stopper. Andy MacD was gorgeous though. See more 08/18/2013 Arriesgada y caótica, esta pelicula es una pieza de inigualable rigor visual entremezclado con un sin fin de situaciones extraviadas que dotan a la imagen de un poder no muchas veces visto. De guion maravilloso, este es un film que revoluciona. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Producer Mike Max (Bill Pullman) has made a fortune through his gory action flicks, but his own capture at the hands of some thugs causes him to reexamine his role in violent productions. After escaping the crooks, he hides out with a group of gardeners, and eventually decides to drop out of Hollywood and stay with his new protectors. Meanwhile, government surveillance man Ray (Gabriel Byrne) uses a complex network of cameras to spy on Los Angeles, but he is disturbed by his superiors.
Director
Wim Wenders
Producer
Wim Wenders, Deepak Nayar, Nicholas Klein
Screenwriter
Nicholas Klein, Wim Wenders
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Buena Vista International [us], MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
Production Co
Kintop Pictures
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 12, 1997, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 16, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA)
$283.0K
Runtime
2h 2m
Sound Mix
Surround, DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
35mm, Scope (2.35:1)
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