Ex-cop-turned-bodyguard Jericho Cane (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
stumbles across a demonic state of affairs when he prevents the
assassination of his Wall Street employer (Gabriel Byrne). It
transpires that Cane's boss is none other than Satan himself,
come to impregnate a young woman named Christine York (Robin
Tunney) - who was secretly anointed by a satanic cult at birth -
on the eve of the new millennium and so bring about the end of
days foretold in the Book of Revelation. With the help of his
partner, Chicago (Kevin Pollak), Cane now attempts to protect
Christine from both Satan and a group of priests who believe that
her death is the only way to halt Armageddon.
From .co.uk
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After a two-year hiatus that included recovery from heart
surgery, Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to the big screen at the
end of 1999 with End of Days, a Christmas turkey if ever there
was one. Overcooked and bloated with stuffing, this ludicrous
thriller attached itself to the end-of-the-millennium furore. The
prologue begins in 1979 with panic in the Vatican when a comet
signals the birth of a child who will, 20 years later, become the
chosen bride of Satan, destined to conceive the devil's spawn
between 11 p.m. and midnight on December 31, 1999. It's hard to
decide who has the more thankless role--Robin Tunney as Satan's
would-be bride, or Schwarzenegger as Jericho Cane, the burned-out
alcoholic bodyguard assigned to protect the girl from Satan,
billed as "The Man" and played with cheesy menace (and an
inconsistent variety of metaphysical manifestations) by Gabriel
Byrne.
With kitsch character names like Jericho and Chicago (Arnie's
partner, played by Kevin Pollack) and lapses in logic that any
five-year-old could spot, End of Days is a loud, aggravating
movie that would be entertaining if it were intended as comedy.
But Schwarzenegger and director Peter Hyams approach the story as
an earnest tale of redemption and tested faith, delivering a
ridiculous climax full of special effects and devoid of dramatic
impact. You're left instead to savour the verbal and physical
sparring between Satan and Jericho, resulting in the most
thorough pummelling Schwarzenegger's ever endured on screen. Of
course he eventually gets his payback, just in time for New
Year's Eve. Perhaps he was touched by an angel? --Jeff Shannon
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From the Back Cover
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Big-screen superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger (Eraser, The
Terminator) takes on his most fearsome foe ever - Satan himself.
Schwarzenegger plays hard-luck ex-cop Jericho Cane, who
unwittingly finds himself caught in a terrifying struggle between
the human incarnation of evil (Gabriel Byrne - The Usual
Suspects) and an innocent young woman (Robin Tunney - The Craft)
chosen to be the mother of the Antichrist. As the clock winds
down towards the fulfilment of a prophecy that would see the end
of the world, only Jericho can protect this girl and see all of
mankind from an unimaginable e.
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