GamerTab
That was an excellent one.
Fluentiama
Perfect cast and a good story
CommentsXp
Best movie ever!
Odelecol
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Lee Eisenberg
Joe D'Amato's "Endgame - Bronx lotta finale" (simply called "Endgame" in English) is an exercise in unabashed exploitation, and a fun one at that. Post-apocalyptic settings are a common theme in cinema, but this is one of those movies that looks really prescient in retrospect. Set in an irradiated New York in 2025, people are forced to fight to the death to entertain the elites (a bit like "The Hunger Games"). And this movie came out over a decade before there was reality TV! I view these sorts of movies as a latter-day manifestation of Franz Kafka's parable of the leopards: what used to be shocking becomes routine (whether the types of movies or what they portray happening in real life)."Endgame" is a pretty slipshod movie, but it makes no pretense about what kind of a movie it is: a B movie and proud of it. And Laura Gemser sure is hot.
CMRKeyboadist
Endgame is a film directed by the notorious Joe D'amato (Anthropophagus, Emmanuelle in America) and written by Joe D'amato and George Eastman. It is a post-apocalyptic movie in a similar vein to Madmax. The setting is post World War 3 and a game being aired on TV is the new thing. The game is called "Endgame" and it is very similar to that of an idea Stephen King came up with. Contestants are set loose in a grubby city and must kill each other until one remains. Two of the contestants are stars "George Eastman" and "Al Cliver". The first half of the movie is the "Endgame" battle. The second half is when Al Cliver runs into a telepath played by "Laura Gemser". She asks him if he could help her and a group of other telepaths to escape from the city. Apparently, escaping from the city isn't easy do to a dictator like government. So, Al Cliver gets together a band of hardcore warriors to set out and get these telepaths out of the city.I must say that Endgame was quite a fun movie. Packed with enough action to keep any Schwartzenneger fan at bay, Endgame truly delivers. We have action about every 5 to 10 minutes and they are long, drawn out action sequences. We have a few moments of gore, but only a few. Laura Gemser even shows off her breast in one scene (what a surprise). Al Cliver is no leading man but is definitely enjoyable in this movie is you like the things he has been in (Zombie 2, Demonia). George Eastman is always an awesome presence and is a good foe for Al Cliver. All in all, Endgame is a fun movie and if you like action check it out. 7/10
Risto_H
This was not as bad I expected...The first half of this film is very boring and it is suitable to use the fast forwarding on your remote, because the last half is so much better. You can see easily that the budget for this film has been very low, but the action scenes actually work rather well. The post-WW3 vehicles are creatively constructed from existing cars and motorbikes. The car with no doors is my favorite. I wonder where they get all the gas and spare parts for those things in a destroyed world?The acting isn't so bad. The telepath girl looks good and carries her role very well. The only scene of her I laughed out loud was that where a telepath makes a big stone floating up. You can easily spot the wire holding the styrofoam-stone in the air, it's just so goofy.I gave this 5/10.
Phroggy
Okay, this mix of "Escape from New York" and "Le prix du danger" could have been better, especially if they chose a better actor as the "hero" But. there is the typical appeal of Italian B-movie and the physical presence of George Eastman. Michele Soavi plays a doctor at the end. Saw this in France when I was young (!) and again at the Paris cinémathèque, though some bits of film were missing. Not as good as Sergio Martino's "2019 Dopo la caputa di New York", but worth a look.