
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener's family for a while. At the same time, surveillance expert Ray Bering is looking for what happens in the city, but it is not clear what he wants. The police investigation for Max's disappearance is led by detective Doc Block, who fa... (Full plot summary below)
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Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener's family for a while. At the same time, surveillance expert Ray Bering is looking for what happens in the city, but it is not clear what he wants. The police investigation for Max's disappearance is led by detective Doc Block, who falls in love with actress Cat who is playing in ongoing Max's production.
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| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA sophisticated and pensive film about a subject that fills contemporary movies and fuels our fantasies. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenIf Wenders does not succeed in condemning the role of violence in movies (which was not his intention), he does unfold a work of intricate texture. |
| Jam! MoviesBruce KirklandConsider the paradox: By the end of The End Of Violence, a preposterous film that rails against man's inhumanity toward man, you want to do violence. To the filmmaker. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaA trama principal se perde em um emaranhado de cenas que, rigorosamente, nada acrescentam ao filme. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenWith The End of Violence Mr. Wenders has made a film as resonant as his most memorable work. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzWenders has succeeded in creating a mishmash of incendiary images about government conspiracy theories, but leaves the story up in the air. |
| Zap2it.comDan FienbergBoring, incoherent and insultingly didactic. It's like Wenders has never been to America, never observed Americans and never even seen an American movie. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirA muddled, sentimental Euro-American hash, redeemed here and there from its fatal purposelessness by a few moments that remind us we're in the presence of a genuine cinematic visionary. |
| Rochester Democrat and ChronicleJack GarnerOften a pretentious struggle, saved only by the important, relevant theme that occasionally emerges. |
| San Francisco ExaminerWalter V. AddiegoIt has its virtues -- Wenders is a skilled and thoughtful workman -- but hovers somewhere between a thriller and an art-house movie and won't fully satisfy fans of either. |