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End Game

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Astoundingly cheesy, lame and pathetic. And this coming on the heels of a previous review stating how much I enjoyed the films that had come out of the WWE. Guys like Steve Austin and Dwayne Johnson had dispelled the idea that wrestling types could be nothing more than cardboard caricatures.

Sadly, this Kurt Angle vehicle proved that my original fears were, at least in this case, correct.

This barely b-grade flick is evocative of the annual high school drama class production which we all cringed to watch in the school auditorium. 'End Game' delivered the near-perfect symbiosis of stiff wooden acting, ridiculous score, horrific costume design, derivative cinematography, and a plot that must've been written on the back of an IHOP menu.

This pile of crap would've made the Troma guys embarrassed and Golan & Globus of the Cannon Group gawk in stunned amazement.

If you went to film school for exactly one day and quit - you'd still have a leg up on Bruce Koehler, the hack that was given directorship of this cheapo monstrosity.

A sadistic killer is on the loose and he's very thorough about picking his victims and covering his tracks. After his first victim, he wipes out everyone else that ever knew her. If that at all sounds thrilling or interesting, that gets stomped out within the first minute.

Former Olympic gold medalist, Kurt Angle is the star of this movie and his first line was, "It's cheap, so I can burry the body." That one line sums up the movie perfectly. This clearly looks like it was a college project on a $1,000 budget. The credits were over in 30 seconds.

The blank expressions of the actors on the cover sum up the acting ability in this movie.
Everyone is awkward and monotone. The best actor was a glorified extra with 4 lines. It's obvious no one had any acting experience, which can't be true considering Kurt Angle has been on television every week for the past decade.

This should have been a "tour de force" for Kurt. He gets to use disguises (one is a clown named Buffo), different voices, and different tense situations when dealing with cops, his victims and the roommate of the first victim who gets targeted as "the next victim." Unfortunately for Kurt's acting career, it's just like a mannequin with a different wig. Those tense moments I mentioned are never actually tense. It's just another scene with a pair of mannequins standing there.

Everyone that meets the killer seems to die... People that knew the first victim, an office tryst. The detective's wife is left alive. Kurt probably figured she'd die of laughter when Kurt was dressed as Buffo the clown and said, "Hello Mrs. Burke I was hired by your daughter's dad Mr. Burke."

When the detective's daughter is kidnapped, the 6 year old just goes right along with it. She looked bored. Then when the killer murders someone right in front of her, there is zero reaction from the girl. They mention later she's a special needs child, but in the end... want to know who puts a stop to the killer by shooting him??? I'll spoil it. The 6 year old! She was only in 4 scenes, one of which she was asleep.

Maybe she had to do it, because there's no one to cheer for in this movie. Your choices are the killer, "the next victim" who is a placeholder or the police detective that cheats on his wife with "the next victim." "The next victim" is very gullible and she first meets the killer when he's posing as a police detective with a trench coat disguise, and then meets him later at a bar. Maybe she was inebriated from drinking, but she ends up on a boat with him. It made me think how did we go from him meeting her at a bar to them vacationing on a boat with a man she just met? A clever twist would have been that she agreed to it knowing he was the killer so she could get revenge on him for killing her roommate so she could sleep safe at night. The police protection she was under didn't seem to mean much anyway.

The camera shots were LONG. Like one camera angle per 2 minutes. Because of this, it really felt like each scene had 2 actors standing around. That's why all other movies have different angles like tight on this actor's face, close up on that actor, have them walking as they're talking, have a slew of extras to give a set life.

Outside of the poorly delivered raunchy dialog in the first 4 minutes, there's nothing to justify an R rating. Even the warning says "BRIEF language." There's no blood and even the strip club scene leaves everything to your imagination.

KURT ANGLE ROCKS...us to sleep with his Van Diesel impersonation. The movie starts out with a great blues soundtrack and a dive hotel. I am thinking a classic Sam Spade type movie. Our villain, Kurt Angle, a WWE wrestler, is by far the best actor in this film, which should give you a heads up. The "actor" who played the cop was so bad it was comical. The movie starts out with Kurt handcuffing his "date" to a bed then taking her from behind while suffocating her with his paw. At this point he eludes the cops who are extremely stupid. Kurt wears a peel off mask to disguise himself, but the effect is so poor, he really doesn't look much different with the mask on, less so than C. Kent and Superman. The dumb married cop has an affair with the victim's roommate who ends up kidnapped herself. Meanwhile Kurt goes on a killing spree. While there are many sexual situations, there is no nudity, even in the strip joint, where customers at this Pittsburgh bar are satisfied to see women strip down to their undergarments. The only decent dialogue was when the cop was investigating the murder at the dive hotel and talks to the manager. Cop: "How do you know she was a prostitute?" Manager: "Do you think she came here for the atmosphere?" Cop: "Did you hear anything unusual, like loud noises?" Manager: "Yea. That is every night." At this point the movie doesn't get any better. It might be a worthwhile view while being stoned with your MST buddies.

Plan 9 From Outer Space had been crowned the worst movie ever made. END GAME, incredulsy, has dethroned and detrashed Plan 9. Wooden hesitant acting, plodding pace and an inane story caused me to END GAME early.

This is likely one of the worst movies that I have ever, or ever shall see. A tremendous wrestling talent (amateur and professional) Kurt Angle is (he's an Olympic Gold Medalist), but an actor he is not.

Wow, was this movie awful. Seriously awful. It was terribly written, terribly directed, terribly acted, and Jenna Morasca was hot. She is a terrible actress, and a little bit on the moley side, maybe, but still incredibly hot.

This movie is so bad, that it makes terrible movies look masterpieces. There is such a thing as enjoyably bad movies, but this wasn't one of those. It truly was that bad.

If I could give it less than 1 star, I would. The actors are bad, the sound quality is bad, the lighting is bad, the camera angles are bad. I can't think of a stronger adjective than bad or I'd use that. This is the absolute worst movie I've ever tried to watch. I can't even finish it because it is that horrible. It's like it was made by high schoolers with their mom's video camera. I can't believe I wasted a dollar on this movie!

The worst movie I've ever seen. What a waste. I wonder how much money they spend on making this movie. May be they made this movie only for fun and didn't give a s__t of the outcome.

This was the most poorly made movie i think i have ever seen.... Well we got through about 13 min of the movie and then gave up. I think they had one camera for the entire filming so you only see one angle , as if the tapped the camera to a spot and left it in one view. Also the acting made me feel like I was watching a highschool theatre show. this movie gets a negative one star!

I watched this with my son and we both hated it.
Worst Acting Ever.
Really Bad Movie.

This movie is terrible! I rented it and watched about five minutes before turning it off. It should be a crime to sell movies this bad. It looks like someone recorded it with a home movie camera. And the acting is the worst I've ever heard. I could make a better movie than this, and I have no experience with making movies. I'm not exaggerating.