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End Game (2006)

Director:
Andy Cheng
COUNTRY
USA/Canada/Germany
GENRE
Action/Thriller
NORWEGIAN TITLE
End Game
RUNNING TIME
93 minutes
Producer:
Johnny Martin
David E. Ornston
Richard Salvatore
Tierre Turner
Screenwriter:
J. C. Pollock
Andy Cheng


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Alex Thomas Cuba Gooding, Jr. ½
Kate Crawford Angie Harmon
Vaughn Stevens James Woods
Brian artin Patrick Fabian ½
Jack Baldwin Peter Greene ½
The President Jack Scalia
The First Lady Anne Archer
Shakey Fuller David Selby ½
General Montgomery Burt Reynolds

 

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.

Copyright © 19.01.2015 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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