Good start, but then it gets ruined

As Good As It Gets

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I didn't bother to check the spoiler box because I couldn't sit through the movie and didn't care how it ended.Actually, this low-budget exercise in gore and horror, starts off fairly promising. Some diverse passengers sit in a mostly empty subway trait that stops dead in the middle of a tunnel and is lighted by the blue cast of emergency lights. I was swept up in trying to figure out where the location was. We don't see any station signs. The subway stops are clean, the cars are modern and tidy and swift. The system is effective and only functional, not ornate. Those features ruled out New York and Moscow. And when one of the characters says, "You're naut going to do it," I had it pinned to some Canadian city.The milieu aside, the movie stinks in every respect. The story is senseless, people do idiotic things, there are bath tubs of blood all over, and the acting is no better than you'd see on the boards at some high school play in Linden, New Jersey. Plain awful.I won't try to describe what plot there is. I'll just let it go by saying it's as familiar to you as your home batterie de cuisine. You surely recognize the battered old pots and pans flung together in the cabinet, the skillets hung from the hooks. The movie relies heavily on the original "Night of the Living Dead," but one shot is lifted directly from Kubrick's "The Shining." Innumerable people are stabbed to death with daggers made out of crucifixes. One guy has his head chopped off on the screen -- well, half chopped off. The good guys are picked off one by one and so on. A woman in advanced pregnancy happily allows herself to be sliced to pieces and the bloody fetus drawn out of her womb.I don't know why some of us are attracted to violence that's presented so realistically on screen. If you're among them, this is your kind of movie.

OMG, I watched this movie because of all the good reviews. Are you guys kidding me? How could you give this anymore than one star? I mean, really? Did you swap some of those little white pills before you wrote those reviews? If so, what the hell was in them?Here's the deal. First it's cheaply made and could have some good thrills if the story bothered to make any sense and it wasn't so darn predictable. Also, I'm tired of these whacko film makers dragging Christians into their cultist films. If you look at all the crazy cults (many of which the Hollywood types subscribe) they are all new age cults. Never has a Christian church (even the whacko ones) ever made their members commit murder or suicide. The morons that wrote this obviously didn't bother to do some basic research. According to the story the Apocalypse is among us and the Christian whacko cult is killing every non-member to save their souls because the devil will rise them up as demons. I have a novel idea, how about at least reading the book of Apocalypse in the bible before doing a movie about it? If they bothered to spend five-minutes reading the very text of which their film is based, then they would have known that it's not the devil that rises the dead but God, and he does it so they can be judged. Nowhere are any of the dead ever risen as demons. For argument sake, lets say the writer was clever and the movie is based on more of a comic book universe with a different bible and different set of rules. Quite honestly I know the film makers aren't' that clever because I saw their piece of crap of a film, but hey, let's give them the benefit of the doubt. So, at the end demons arise from the dead but I thought I saw one climb out of a dead Christian cult body. So, what the heck? Were the Christian cultists the ones who weren't saved or did the demons come from the people they killed? You never know because the film doesn't make it clear. Overall, the movie sucked. Regardless, I'm really sick of theses film makers portraying Christianity and the bible so inaccurately that those that aren't Christian tend to think that these are really our beliefs.

First of all let me start by saying that I'm a huge horror movies fan. I've seen almost everything in that genre from supernatural to simple slashers and yes much more than your average viewer. Sometimes when people dwell too much into a certain field they start to see a lot of things the uneducated eye cannot see and thus appreciate what at first looks a poor movie.With that being said and without any bias whatsoever I can wholeheartedly rank this "movie" as one of the worst I have ever seen. And no I'm no slave to directors/actors names, reputation or anything. I just call things as I see them.I cannot fathom how in the world this flick got the score of 6 here. Maybe the whole cast and staff involved in the making voted from thousand different accounts.. who knows.Don't get me wrong - there are some decent things. Production isn't bad, effects are alright but everything else from storyline to acting is just laughable.How do you know a poor movie from the start? When it starts with random and unnecessary make-out scenes that's how. A bad guy that is trying to forcefully get laid throughout the 90 minutes and of course religious nuts with mind-boggling mission.If you are looking for a scare you won't find it here. No suspense, no intrigue, a few bloody killings which were done sometimes well, sometimes with excessive amounts of fake blood that gives you a strong hint you are watching a poor low budget attempt at something. Acting could've been better but in the given situations and scenario I believe the guys did their best. I find it funny how the evil guy at times was laughing at his lines probably screaming "this is bull----" in his mind. The actual monsters appear in the very end and they are as laughable and poorly done as it gets. Actually that's not so much of a spoiler as just a look of the poster tells you what to expect.Supernatural horror fans, slasher fans, first-time horror movie watchers - this is NOT the movie for you. It's not even good for a popcorn flick as the urge to fast forward it makes it hard to enjoy anything you are fed. Not that there's anything enjoyable - save for a few nice looking breasts here and there - but then again that's not the genre we are talking about. Oh and when I say breasts don't expect any nudity. Yes I'm talking to you desperate teens.All in all a very poor, irritating, pointless, unexciting, unenjoyable and barely watchable film. Don't argue about a meaningful storyline - there is none. Religious? Somewhat yes. But if you expect an unbelievable twist or take on Christianity you will be much better of seeing Life of Brian.I can give this movie a 3 just because the production was decent and the effects for the most part were done OK. If that's enough for you by all means see it.For the rest who are looking for a thrill - stay away.

Karen(Ilona Elkin) is a psychiatric nurse struggling to cope with the suicide of a schizophrenic patient(released due to overcrowding)who threw herself in front of a moving subway train after seeing a demon. Karen has a series of ominous drawings Viviane had created showing demons in our world, warning of the dangers to come. And she wasn't joking. On board a subway train, numerous passengers are to be chosen for extermination when nutsoid religious fanatics, obeying a "higher calling"(their confirmation sent via text message), armed with "crucifix daggers", will target anyone not necessarily of the faith. We see that some of the devoted converted aren't exactly as determined to fulfill some horrifying command to slice throats and stab innocents multiple times in the torso to "clease/save their souls". The reverend(we see his smiling face with his family in a cardboard cut out in Karen's psychiatric hospital advertising himself)has an unquestionable following so convinced of whatever garbage he fed them, it really is religious fanaticism at it's most horrid. Voices of Eternal Hope has many members which certainly establishes how scary this menace could be to the outside world if told to cleanse more souls than those in a subway tunnel and train. We get a disturbing scene where a kid comes toward a motley group of passengers who were able to flee the train before being gutted like a fish, and gets hit across the skull..such casualties are expected when the flock is as dedicated as these members are. I have to admit that I wasn't expecting END OF THE LIGHT to be so ambitious in it's storytelling in regards to Armageddon, how chaos and anarchy actually derives from a religious fervor so poisonous that streets are in flames, running mobs trying to get away from hysterical maniacs, truly, with total faith, devout in the belief that they are doing God's will, a mission to save souls by actually killing people. I do think that this plot will offend some Born Again Christians with it's subject matter, the idea of those who believe wholeheartedly in the Lord, following "the voice" which desires for the lost to be saved through heinous violence. In one scene, we see a victim almost decapitated with a sword and another where a pregnant member wanting absolution from Satan with a plea(along with members round abouts expecting it as well)for her husband to use the dagger to "save her"..there's nothing more disturbing than seeing a husband stabbed by his own wife, only for others to take turns plunging daggers in her, cutting the unborn baby from her womb! I think many will find END OF THE LINE just plain blasphemous.There's a virgin named Sarah(Nina Fillis) who folds to her lustful desire, having sex with her boyfriend(Tim Rozon) who is later stabbed in the back. Sarah is manipulated by a fiend, Patrick(Robin Wilcock), a sexual predator who "wants his cherry popped". Unlike the flock, Patrick just kills out of sheer delight, using the mantra of the church as a means to an end. Wilcock, as Patrick, is one of those cockroaches with a demonic grin, you root passionately against, a real despicable heavy. His fate is rather interesting("Thank you."), though, and it asks a question as to whether or not he was in control of his devious nature.END OF THE LINE, beside the apocalypse theme, is ultimately a fight for survival, with numbers dwindling as time continues. Our heroes are trying to make it to an exit while the maniacs follow in pursuit. My favorite scene involves an ax embedded in a skull, pulling it out not very easy. Nicholas Wright is Mike, a love interest of Karen's who really endures some suffering. Others rounding out the cast of heroes includes Neil Napier as Neil(in a part written especially for him), with Emily Shelton as Julie(one of Patrick's near-victims). Joan McBride stands out as the female antagonist, her devotion to God unparalleled as she leads the extremists on their mission. Those ghouls(called muffins)are pretty creepy, their slithery walk, black skin, and glowing eyes(several of them scale the walls and ceiling, one even comes out of the body of a victim)quite memorable, things right out of a nightmare.