Saturday, August 26, 2017

Is the ending really all that mysterious?,


I am always wary of "cult classics". They can typically be amazing or amazingly bad.

I think Geoff Murphy's highly personal take on End of Days (precipitated by the Evil Corporation) is somewhere in between, more on the Amazing side, but maybe not a masterpiece as some have proclaimed it. Bruno Lawrence plays a scientist/researcher who awakens one morning to find that, apparently, he is the only one left on Earth, due to the catastrophic failure of an Energy Project he was working on. Or, is it something else? Speculation about the meaning of the The End of the film -- which has run rampant, apparently -- seems to tie together with the meaning of the Beginning of the film. It all relates to something called "The Effect" which has possibly wiped out the entire population of the Earth, except for Lawrence's character. The rest is worthy of saving for those that haven't seen this nifty Apocalyptic Sci Fi drama. In any case, I write spoiler-free reviews. What I will say is that Lawrence is wonderful in a role that requires an Actor's solo acting chops to be on display, as they were (in spades) for Will Smith in I am Legend. Great stuff.

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