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End Game (2006)
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Director:
Andy Cheng |
COUNTRY
USA/Canada/Germany |
GENRE
Action/Thriller |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
End
Game |
RUNNING
TIME
93 minutes |
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Producer:
Johnny Martin
David E. Ornston
Richard Salvatore
Tierre Turner |
Screenwriter:
J. C. Pollock
Andy Cheng |
Review
A
bunch of over-the-hill performers is assembled in this initially
good-looking and ostensibly interesting, but ultimately fairly
ridiculous action-thriller yarn about a Secret Service agent (Cuba
Gooding Jr.) and a journalist's (Angie Harmon) endeavours to uncover
the truth about the assassination of the President. Director Andy
Cheng generates some initial tension by utilizing well-known genre
techniques before abruptly running out of ideas on how to conceal
the inadequacy of his script. And so we're left watching James
Woods, Burt Reynolds and Anne Archer playing cardboard figures of
people they once played with such conviction, while Gooding and
Harmon run around trying to look serious.
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