Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

dirk275 Endgame is set in a hollowed out metropolis of the year 2025. People are entertained by the ultimate reality show called Endgame. It's really what Survivor should be. Ron Shannon is Endgame's greatest champ. Kurt Karnak is his bitter rival. During the game a mutant helps Shannon to defeat Karnak but Shannon spares his life. Bad move? Shannon is then enlisted by a band of mutants attempting to escape the city. Of course, a suitcase full of gold sweetens the deal for Shannon, who then rounds up a band of cutthroats to help him, including Ninja, the coolest guy in the film. He bites it too quick. There are many great fight scenes in this movie, one involving blind monks and another with a gang led by a man who is half fish. The fish guy is involved in a very disturbing rape scene with Laura Gemsler. Eventually the number of the group is whittled down to Shannon but the mission gets accomplished anyway. Shannon is asked by Lilith(Gemsler) to join the mutants, which he doesn't. Not too smart because Lilith is pretty hot. Wouldn't you know it as the chopper flies off out comes Karnak to battle Shannon for the gold. The movie ends just as the battle starts, which actually is a cool way to go.I love this movie a lot. The first third is a bit slow but once they leave the city the action is nonstop. The battle with the blind monks is amazing and exciting. Motorcycles and gun-play highlight the scene. The next battle with a group of mutants is just as cool, except Ninja dies here and I must say that just blows big time. But, oh well.Endgame also has a very depressing feel to it. It really is very bleak. Man seems to be digressing by way of mutations and while Lilith's group seem to be advanced, they are hunted down out of fear. To be honest, the bleakness is what appeals to me.Ron Shannon is played by Al Cliver and his performance is understated at best, but it works here. The real show stealer is George Eastman as Kurt Karnak. He dives into his role with flair. He's ruthless and amoral, just what the post-nuke world needs.This movie is worth seeing and if you're a fan of the genre then it's a must see.9/10

Coventry Based on the reputation of director Joe D'Amato, who's primarily known for an endless number of pornography movies and perverted exploitation flicks, and a shallow first look at the VHS cover and stills, I was expecting "Endgame" to be an extremely low-keyed and virtually worthless piece of Italian 80's trash but I'm glad to announce that it actually is a pleasantly engaging Post-Apocalyptically themed Sci-Fi experience. It's a piece of 80's trash nevertheless, of course, but one of the most enjoyable kinds. "Endgame" belongs in the extended category of Italian produced "Escape from NY" knockoffs and it can easily compete with the most successful and notorious accomplishments in there, like Sergio Martino's "After the Fall of New York", Ruggero Deodato's "The Atlantis Interceptors", Lucio Fulci's "The Fighting Centurions" and Enzo G. Castellari's "The New Barbarians". These titles probably don't mean anything to 'normal' film lovers, but to true fans of Italian exploitation cinema they form an excellent source of comparison. The main story lines are very familiar and D'Amato isn't too ashamed to add in one clichéd plot twist after the other, but the film is extremely fast-paced, spectacular and indescribably violent, so who really cares about originality? Al Cliver plays a terrific Snake Plissken clone, but the show is obviously stolen by the almighty George Eastman as the arch enemy. It's the years 2025 and everybody eagerly awaits the new edition of a popular TV show, called "Endgame", in which a couple of bloodthirsty hunters go after a human prey. Ron Shannon wins the game, but only thanks to the help of the telepathically gifted mutant Lilith (D'Amato muse Laura Gemser). The government systematically exterminates all the mutants, and thus Shannon swears to help Lilith and her other mutant friends flee out of the city. Along with a troop of recruited mercenaries, Shannon guides them out of town but the group successively encounters hugely challenging ordeals like a community of blind cannibalistic monks (a splendid homage to "The Omega Man" perhaps?), an army of bewildered mutants and Nazi-like government soldiers. "Endgame" is glorious and priceless 80's entertainment like they just don't make it anymore. The battling sequences are extended and body count is enormous, with literally hundreds of bad guys and the occasional good guy dying left and right and in highly imaginative ways. In spite of the obviously low-budgeted production values, D'Amato managed to gather together some excellently apt set pieces and flamboyant vehicles and even the make-up effects are far above average. Director Joe D'Amato stated that this is his own personal favorite of all the movies he directed, and he's probably right although I personally have even bigger soft spots for "Anthropophagus" and "Beyond the Darkness". This is somewhat also a very atypical D'Amato film and that's a positive comment. For once, he could keep his viewers alert and fascinated with actually content instead of through showing nudity and sleaze. I mean, Laura Gemser stars in this film and she barely takes her clothes off! George Eastman also stars and he doesn't even attempt to rape a woman! This is just a perfectly entertaining Italian post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi movie with all the necessary ingredients: action, bloodshed, gimmicks, costumes, silliness and a terrific freeze-frame end shot.

Woodyanders Right after World War III in the year 2025 A.D. nuclear devastation has made the world a really tough place to live in. Murderous marauding hordes of rot-faced scavengers roam the streets, telepathic mutant misfits are harshly persecuted by the ruthless kill 'em all on sight totalitarian government (is this a possible allegory on the Holocaust?), and the masses are kept pacified by a televised gladiatorial bloodsport called Endgame, in which one lone man has to fight to the death with three expert hunters for a shot at the grand prize (I'm sure any similarities between this film and "The Running Man" are purely coincidental. Or are they?). Ron Shannon (the ubiquitous Al Cliver of Lucio Fulci's "Zombie" fame), reigning Endgame champ and butt-whupping warrior supreme, decides to help a group of ostracized mutants get out of the city. Shannon rounds up a crack team of almighty kick-a** tough guys -- lithe Al Yamannouchi as a stoic, silent, swift-kicking kung-fu ace (Al's also the token Asian dude in "The New Gladiators," "2020: The Texas Gladiators," and "2019: After the Fall of New York," which basically makes him the bargain basement Bruce Lee of Italian post-nuke cinema), grizzled Leonard Nimoy lookalike Gus Stone as an aging, crossbow-hefting nomad, burly Mario Pedone as a humongous Viking-like mountain of bullish brutality, and so on -- to assist him and the mutants on a risky, perilous trek across the vast, arid, dangerous desert terrain, fending off such exotic threats as deadly, cowled sword-swinging blind monks (!), predatory apeman freaks on motorcycles, machine gun-sporting government goons in shiny black leather coats, and Shannon's former good buddy turned bitter, venomous rival Karnak (the towering George Eastman in turbo-charged mean, massive and intimidating mode), a cold-blooded SOB with an old score to settle with Shannon concerning who's the one and only Endgame champ (did "Highlander" rip this movie off as well? Could be, man).Although a bit flaccid and meandering (the film would have benefited from tighter plotting and a quicker pace, especially in the rather laborious opening third), "Endgame" still rates as a pretty satisfying, exciting, action-packed, ultra-violent and exceedingly gory Italian post-nuke sci-fi outing. Joe D'Amato's competent direction, the trim script by Terry Hall and Steve Benson, Frederico's lively, smoky, atmospheric cinematography, and Carlo Mario Cordio's spare, shivery, spooky John Carpenteresque synthesizer score make the most out of the movie's low budget. Moreover, the action scenes are plentiful and briskly mounted (lots of screaming, hyperactive extras scurry about firing guns and wielding various sharp implements with lethal, blood-spilling abandon), the tone remains appropriately stark, grim and melancholy throughout, the set and costume designs are fairly lavish, and the sporadic pauses for wistful reflectivity effectively establish audience sympathy for the mutants' sorry plight. The bearded, bushy-haired, solidly built Cliver makes for a credible and commanding action hero: relaxed, taciturn, confidant, and dead serious, a rugged fellow who's fast on his feet and one hell of a fit, physical, kick-your-teeth-down-your-throat ferocious hand-to-hand combat fighter. The stand-out supporting cast includes the ever-lovely Moira Chen (a.k.a. prolific longtime favorite soft-core sexploitation queen Laura Gemser) as a compassionate mutant telepath who gets raped by a fat, warty, disgusting blue-skinned humanoid fish creep, the great Bobby Rhodes (the cool, suave pimp in the flashy "Superfly" threads in "Demons") as a crafty, agile Endgame stalker (Bobby sports both a gleaming Telly Savalas-type bald chrome-dome and a simply snazzy flowing red cape), and stone-faced block-of-granite Gordon Mitchell as the evil, fascistic Colonel Morgan. Michele Soavi was the assistant director and has a cameo as a jerky TV station monitor. Sure, it's not without its flaws, but overall "Endgame" still passes muster as an admirably ambitious, arguably influential and hence above average end-of-the-world sci-fi/action item.

Quiksilverkid Avoid this movie at all costs. It is one of those movies you sit through in the anticipation that something good comes up, and you sit there and hope until it says the end on the screen! The plot summary kind of gives a good impression on the quality of this flick and its all true! the danish magazine M! has made it one of its worst movie pick of the month.Dont go see it!