Product Details

• Actors: Zach Galifianakis, Rob Corddry, Ving Rhames, Adam Scott, Ellen Barkin
• Directors: Fouad Mikati
• Format: Blu-ray, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: ANCHOR BAY
• DVD Release Date: July 27, 2010
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003IB0FRQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,672 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Rival squads of sociopathic covert agents turn on each other with vicious glee when their underground facility is threatened with flaming death. The fun of Operation: Endgame lies in the cast: this is a pretty unlikely collection of assassins, played by the likes of Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover), and Emilie de Ravin (Lost), alongside more traditional Hollywood superspy types such as Maggie Q (Live Free or Die Hard), Ving Rhames (Dawn of the Dead), and Ellen Barkin (The Big Easy). Operation: Endgame also has fun with spook lingo (the agents are all named after tarot cards, ranging from the Devil to Temperance to the High Priestess) and extremely graphic violence (truly, at least half of the movie is watching the agents kill each other with improvised weapons, like paper shredders and golf putters). Corddry has the most fun with his part, giving the movie a jolt of energy whenever he appears, but the whole cast has their moment (though Rhames is wasted on a one-joke character). All in all, a bit flimsy, but Operation: Endgame knows that it's trash and revels in it. A candidate for cult film status. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description

A battle ensues among groups of government spy teams in an underground facility after their boss is assassinated.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny and bloody. May 6, 2012

By infinite2492

Format:DVD

The movie was pretty good. It was a movie made to just have people kill each other and crack jokes. It had good fights and killing scenes and it was pretty funny. The story line isn't explained great in the beginning and is put together worse at the end. If you are looking for a movie with a good played story this isn't it. But, if you are just looking for a reason to laugh and see some rated material then I Recommend this movie because it's fun.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun for SOME of the family.. December 30, 2010

By Bucky Kashdin

Format:DVD

OK, first it's not 'terms of endearment'. Next off, it's an ation movie, with some black comedic elements. It's a wise ass, kill everyone, pseudo-psycholigcal actionfest.

There aren't a lot of surprises once the action starts, and it is definitely violent, and bloody, but in a 'im gonna kill you creatively, and make cracks and wise-ass comments while I do it' kind of way.

If you are looking for friend green tomatoes, look elsewhere. If you have a dark sense of humor, then you should enjoy every last minute of it.

Enjoy Rob Corddry in his best role since H&K Guantanmo.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I found it funny. September 1, 2012

By andres

Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase

I found it funny in a somewhat dark sense of humor. Assassins locked up and hating each other in an underground bunker? Why not. It's not like an AMAZING movie ever made but it made me laugh. Rent if first, watch it, and if your like me (I buy movies IIIII like) then purchase it. :)

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Mikati's first giant step April 18, 2011

By Robin Benson

Format:DVD

Seventy-nine minutes of mindless froth that, on second viewing, was slightly more entertaining than the first. I believe this is director Fouad Mikati's first film (and hopefully last?) and he goes at it with gusto as do the cast who seem to be enjoying themselves doing nothing in particular and they get paid for it, too.

Rob Corddry hams it up best of all and Ellen Barkin, Odette Annable plus Emilie de Ravin provide the eye candy. Zach Galifianakis seemed rather out of place as if he strolled onto the set from some other production nearby. Ving Rhames and Jeffrey Tambor have so little time on screen that their talents are wasted.

The two teams of assassins slug it out in an underground bunker and that really is all there is to it except that the death of each seems to provide vicarious thrills to each killer. The storyline is so paper-thin that I can't see how the production could be anything other than fun froth.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars The only bad acting is from Zach Galifianakis. January 3, 2011

By K. Childers

Format:DVD

Operation Endgame is a fun, funny and violent action/mystery movie that suffers from the inclusion of a horribly tacked on character played by someone who was obviously looking to collect a pay check. Zach Galifianakis is a complete waste of space in this movie. In fact, his role in this movie could be completely eliminated without changing the story one bit. It's as if some movie executive was given the script for this film and said, "Let's hire that fat, bearded guy from The Hangover and put him in this movie. What, there is no role for him to play? Well let's just add one." Thank god Mr. Galifianakis is only in the movie for 5 minutes. But it's 5 minutes of horrible acting that doesn't add anything to the movie. Seriously, my grandmother could put on a better performance in this role and she's been dead for 2 years.

As for the rest of the movie, it's mostly great. Mostly. Chock full of black humor and over the top violence, it had me chuckling until the last 15 minutes. That's where things start to fall apart. The last 15 minutes feel very rushed, slapping the audience in the face with story elements that are meant to tie up the plot. Part of this is of course the writer trying desperately to explain why Zach Galifianakis' character, the Hermit, was even there to begin with, as "the movie studio made me do it" wouldn't have been an acceptable reason. (Even though it would have been the most valid reason.) What it ultimately boils down to is one man with great power suddenly developing a conscience and deciding to put an end to the manipulation of the world. But the manner in which the movie brings us to this end is a bit convoluted. No more insane and illogical than your average anime movie, mind you.... But definitely not a simple, spoon-fed answer that we're used to getting in American cinema.

This is a funny movie IF you like black humor. It's dark, gritty, cynical, and obscene. If you're watching this because Zach Galifianakis is in it and you're expecting The Hangover 2, you're going to be very disappointed. But get beyond him and you've got an entertaining, if violent, hour and a half ahead of you. Read more ›

2.0 out of 5 stars So Much Potential Wasted on Weak Script and Direction December 7, 2012

By Tsuyoshi TOP 1000 REVIEWER

Format:DVD

"Operation: Endgame" (also known as "Rogues Gallery") starts out promisingly, with a newly recruited agent codenamed "Fool" (Joe Anderson, "Across the Universe") ready for his first assignment. He is sent to the government's underground facilities, where he is introduced to members of two groups Omega and Alpha. Both teams are composed of eccentric agents all named after tarot cards, including "Chariot" (Rob Corddry), "Empress" (Ellen Barkin), "Hierophant" (Emilie de Ravin) and "High Priestess" (Maggie Q) and "Judgment" (Ving Rhames).

However, there is something not quite right about the way some of the agents including "Devil" (Jeffrey Tambor) act. With a new president about to be inaugurated, there is some conspiracy going on. And it looks like things are definitely not right when one of them is found horribly murdered (with pencils stuck in the body).

What follows in this dark action comedy is a survival game of government agents killing each other. The idea is fine and the cast is interesting, but the story is poorly written (script penned by Sam Levinson, director Barry Levinson's son), and the film is woefully directed. Actors like Maggie Q, Ving Rhames and Zach Galifianakis are all wasted in forgettable roles. Action scenes are amateurish. Rob Corddry and Ellen Barkin are fun to watch, but not enough to save this mess.

Produced by Richard Kelly of "Donnie Darko" fame, "Operation: Endgame" becomes tedious towards the end, taking itself too seriously. With a running time of less than 90 minutes, "Operation: Endgame" feels very long, not knowing what it really wants to do.