Until the End of the World – 3-DVD Box Set
February 27, 2010 | Posted by 2012 
- THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
Product Description
Germany released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), German ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: 3-DVD Set, Alternative Footage, Biographies, Box Set, Interactive Menu, Trailer(s), Uncut, SYNOPSIS: Set in 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank rob… More >>
Until the End of the World – 3-DVD Box Set
Categories: End Of The World Movies | 
Tags: 3DVD, UNTIL, World | 
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Bought this movie based on current reviews. Watch it, Long, Slow, not very good much less great. I guess you have to just
disregard the reviews.
Rating: 2 / 5
Obviously, my review won’t be very popular here. So be it.
I was looking for a unique film that I hadn’t seen before, and from the glowing 5-star reviews throughout this page I thought this would be such a film. Unfortunately, it doesn’t even come close. Long and boring with improbable (no, impossible…no, incredulous) situations, this mess never made me care for any of the characters, especially the two lead characters. Did I mention that it was loooonnnnnggggg?
To say that this isn’t my type of movie would be a gross understatement. Everything, and I mean everything, seemed contrived to the point of being ridiculous. As the title indicates, this story is based upon everyones’ fear of impending doom as a nuclear platform’s orbit decays. Funny thing is, except for the narrator stating this on several occasions, no one in the film really seemed to care one way or another (nor did I, since it wouldn’t detonate the nuclear warheads anyway). Add to that, the impossible crossing of paths of cardboard characters, and one is left with nothing but a jumbled mess. How probable is the following?:
1. Two cars crash on an empty, open road (going in the same direction, no less) and immediately the occupants become so friendly that they trust each other and an oddball woman with millions of dollars of stolen loot.
2. Two strangers meet at a line of telephones and there is immediate attraction…to the point that the female follows this guy all over the world (this is where the travel log comes in).
3. Two of the characters are hunting the protagonist (bounty hunters?), but both are so comedic that the viewer feels absolutely no threat from either of them (actually, I was hoping they would kill the protagonist, but alas…).
4. The future (uh, 1999) looks like 60’s plastic art-deco.
5. The continuous narration was as mindless as the film.
I could go on and on, but this film doesn’t merit any more wasted time. The only positive note is that some of the locals were quite nice, and Max von Sydow is always solid. If you want to see this film because of all the positive reviews, I suggest that you rent it first. Between 1 and 10, “Until the End of the World” gets a marginal 3.
I understand that the VHS version I purchased was a shortened version (hard to believe), and because of this the plot lines may have become jumbled, but in all honesty, I don’t think adding more minutes to this movie could possibly help it.
Rating: 2 / 5
This futuristic, post-apocalyptic thriller/ comedy/ romance tries to deliver some clever ideas about the power of dreams, memory and its manipulation and control. One should always praise a film that dares to raise thought-provoking questions, yet in this case I can`t help but give it one star. Despite the gripping premise, this movie is too long, unfocused, slow and disjointed to deserve a higher rating. Director Wim Wenders has an interesting concept, still he seems uncomfortable with the material here and the result is a failed attempt. The plot is contrived at best, the characters` motivations and attitudes don`t make much sense and the story truly is a test to one`s patiente and good-will. Ok, so the soundtrack is alright and the directing is competent, but that`s it. Maybe a remake could give a better life to this concept, since this effort is pretentious, incredibly boring and seems unfinishable. It just drags endlessly.
One to skip.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this movie at a place in city. I watched it. And it didn’t went up to my expectetions. First, I think Wim Wenders did put this movie too close to his own time. He did not consider research what would happen until the real 1999. And what was that thing about the atomic satellite? It wasn’t mentioned so much in the movie. You can see that the Soviet Union is actually still intact, even though it ceased to exist the coming year. Secondary, much of the picture was too much centered on Clarie (Solveig Dommartin). You do not get to see the plot real close. And what IS the plot? A man who invent a machine that can record real life and insert it’s memories into another human, and the US govenment trying to find it? For their own purposes? I recommend seing Blade Runner if you want to see a future thriler/sci-fi.
Mind that this is MY rating for this movie, and should not be taken seriously. Thank You.
Rating: 2 / 5
Hmmmmmm I am really tired of professional critics! None of them got the sense and idea of this movie at all. What we saw in 1991 release, was almost as far as I am concrened exactly what we may just get in the by 1999 and beyond. Sony just released a Vid Phone, Duhhhhhhhh I am sure it wouldn’t be hard to get it hooked up by wireless internet, Duhhhhhh Well as much as the producer knew in 1991 about the future, they came as close as possible as anyone else. Today we do have a majority of the technology displayed in the movie. If anyone deserves to take credit for inventing the internet, it is these guys. I think, the movie is really a rememberance of what happened to each character rather than a third person version, as noticed by the end of the movie. We remember in levels of excitement and suffering, so that is how this movie was constructed.
Rating: 4 / 5