The End of Violence (1997)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Wim Wenders

Writers:

Nicholas Klein (story) &
Wim Wenders (story) ...

Release Date:

12 September 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Nothing Lasts Forever

Plot:

Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films...

Plot Keywords:

Typewriter | Observatory | Lost Identity | Surveillance Camera | Film Making

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

Traci Lind	...	Cat
Rosalind Chao	...	Claire
Bill Pullman	...	Mike Max
Andie MacDowell	...	Page
K. Todd Freeman	...	Six O One
Gabriel Byrne	...	Ray Bering
Chris Douridas	...	Technician
Pruitt Taylor Vince	...	Frank Cray
John Diehl	...	Lowell Lewis
Soledad St. Hilaire	...	Anita
Nicole Ari Parker	...	Ade (as Nicole Parker)
Daniel Benzali	...	Brice Phelps
Samuel Fuller	...	Louis Bering (as Sam Fuller)
Marshall Bell	...	Sheriff Call
Frederic Forrest	...	Ranger MacDermot

Also Known As:

Am Ende der Gewalt (Germany) (informal literal title)
Am.Ende.der.Gew@lt. (Germany)

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

122 min

Country:

France | Germany | USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby | DTS

Certification:

Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:L | Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Hungary:14 | Mexico:B | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

CiBy 2000

Trivia:

There is a scene in the film where we see a live recreation of the painting "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Page is holding Mike at gunpoint she holds the gun upward with the bottom of the handle facing outward and the ammo clip is clearly missing. Yet when Mike exits through the patio door she fires the gun and shatters the glass.

Quotes:

Mike Max: Perversely. That's one thing I think I can define now. It's when things are upside down and you start to like 'em that way.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Edward Hopper (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Bad News

Random, sluggish and boring

It didn't feel like it had any central thread. Nothing really grabbed my attention. There were a number of promising potentials, but they were never followed up on. Through most of the movie, I didn't know what the hell was going on, and I wondered if the whole thing was Wenders' private joke.

Many of the characters were either annoying (actors playing their pretentious selves), or just big blobs of nothing.

Pointless non-sequitur slug of a movie.