End of the World (1977)

Very best movie i ever watch

So much average

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Lee plays Father Pergado / Zindar - the good father of a church and Zindar the alien wanting to take over planet Earth - OK not really they are more like ET they just want to go home - they will stop at nothing to do so - they can be violent if need be. Their home planet is a peaceful utopia. OH Lee's character has quite a few nuns on his side - they are aliens too.The film is not for everyone it is very slow and not a lot of action except for the beginning and the ending while in-between is slow. Most reviewers and critics do not like this film for various reasons.There is something about this one I like but I am in the minority for liking the film a little bit and I guess mainly because Christopher Lee is in the film.Really this film is worth 2 out of 10 stars but I have to give the film two more stars for the sheer novelty of it - Christopher Lee is an alien! 4/10

First of all, let me tell you straight off the bat that my rather high rating here has nothing to do with the film's quality. It has some decent aspects, mind you, but has 'TV-movie' or 'late-night time-waster' written all over it, despite Sir Christopher Lee's presence and a really good ending, for such a low-budget production. The beginning is also quite good and intriguing--it's everything in between that lets the film down. I like Sue Lyon (Stanley Kubrick's 'Lolita', although she's not a good actress, just an intriguing presence) and Macdonald Carey--but these actors are clearly at the stage of their career when if they're not doing theatre, they're taking TV-work or B-movies such as these, that fine actors such as Ray Milland, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford gave credibility to, in their declining years.There isn't a lot of action. It's full of lulls and rather boring--you get a lot of sequences of looking at screens or printouts from those clunky old computers and printers that used to take up so much space. Lee does the best he can, there's good chemistry between Lyon and her protagonist-husband, there's good use of stock footage of disasters happening all over the world, and the climactic shot at the end is excellent despite the low budget. It made me wonder how it would have looked if shot a few years later, when 3-D made a brief comeback as a fad.I gave one star (out of five) for one of my favourite horror actors ever, one for that shot at the end, and one for the way the poster reminded me of my favourite album cover--Oxygene by electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre. How I wish his music from that album had been utilized instead of the shtick that was used. So, in total, 3/5, or 6 out of 10.

This movie was not as bad as many of the critics whom filled out the IMDb.com review suggest.Its main flaw is it take a long time to develop, and there are Dominique like voids of dialogue where the actors must carry the scene with body language.Christopher Lee portrays the main antagonist, a priest who was kidnapped then cloned by aliens who seek to both destroy the Earth (so its diseases cannot spread across the galaxy) and to return to their home planet, in which there is no war, disease or famine.None of the other actors did a particularly good job. Dean Jagger, whom portrays the male protagonist is okay at best, and the female lead is played by Sue Lyon. She is not the best actress of her time, and cannot carry her silent scenes very well compared to Lee or Jagger.Not that Lee or Jagger did exceptionally in this case, but it is a LOT to ask of an actor to carry a silent scene.The plot is very "Twilight Zone", the special effects and sound effects seem to come straight out of the old television Star Trek series.A scene where Jagger removes a contraption the aliens need to return home, in fact, looks almost 100% like the scene that Star Trek 2 the Wrath of Khan would sue when Spock is attempting to fix the ship's warp drive. Eerily similar.Some shots are very Kubrickian featuring drawn back and isolated shots.The story is fair to good, if not very slow to develop.This film lacked about 2 to 3 'steps' to make it a success, but its not a bad way to spend a couple hours.

I love B science fiction/Horror movies & Christopher Lee is a legend but this was so bad it was actually funny! Acting is bad, soundtrack is bad, extra's bad, sound effects bad, special effects bad & it's very boring! Especially for 1977. Check it out if you want to waste almost 2 hours of your life or just for laughs if you are a die hard movie fan etc. On the good side, the TV screens at the end of the movie with every part of the planet going to hell being destroyed by floods, storms, earthquakes etc & viewed on these screens looked pretty eerie and I thought this was a nice idea for shock value for this scene & freaked me out as a kid visually but it was filmed poorly. Also the movie poster is a creative Idea. I can understand why Christopher Lee did not like being in this movie. I think they can redo this movie as a remake better this time around in this era of movie's in our lifetime. I would like to remake this and maybe use Christopher Lee again! God bless him he is still alive!