The End

The End is an excessively long musical, but unfortunately, it’s neither fun nor creative. Rather than offering an enjoyable musical experience, the film feels like a chaotic mess that throws you around without giving you a chance to connect with the music or the story. The direction and script are both poorly handled, and the music itself is downright atrocious. At over two and a half hours, the story drags on with no clear focus, making it difficult to understand or stay engaged. It almost felt less like a musical and more like a disjointed drama or even a horror film—though that might’ve been an improvement over what this actually is. Personally, I’d rather watch classics like Wonka, The Wizard of Oz, Wicked, or Grease—musicals that are creative, fun, and truly capture the spirit of the genre. In summary, The End is a disappointment and not a film I’d recommend. But of course, it’s up to you if you want to give it a try.

I guess I didn't get it. I had to come back to finish the movie about 45 times. It was slow, boring and the first time someone sang, I realized it was a musical. Oh no! If you have ever fantasized about surviving the end of the world, getting stuck in a tomb with toneless singers is one of the worst, as their maudlin secrets come out over 20 years.

Why, just why did anyone green light this boring, bloated movie especially with such a non-melodic bunch of, dare I even say it, “songs” adding absolutely nothing to the story. As for the noble cast, how did the director, Joshua Oppenheimer, get the two a-list stars, Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon, to join? Neither actor can sing though their acting capabilities are well known. As for the rest of the cast, they’re clearly competent so why did they agree to participate in this weak script? Please make a movie about how exactly this failure of a movie was put together. Now that’s a movie maybe I’d like to watch. The End should have ended right at the title. Next time, Mr Director, remember to entertain us, not make us waste our time and money and run out of the theater.

This film committed the worst crime a film can commit: it bored me. Random scenes slapped together with duct tape and paperclips, dull songs and characters that I didn’t connect with at all. Ugh. Avoid it like the plague.

Some great cinematography and very good performances. The musical score was surprisingly tuneful. Plot confusing, bit pretentious

Watched tonight at the Picturehouse Central in London with a Q&A afterwards with the director and star George Mackay. No-one asked the obvious question… WHY? What this nonsense was about… what purpose it served will forever remain a mystery to me… banal overlong and laughable… literally my first ever film review… THIS IS THE WORSE FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN.

A wonderful and profound film. A true masterpiece and a work of art!

Weird AF. Can you really live in a salt mine? I get the underlying story - but sometimes it's good to just say something rather than bury it under so many layers of weird.

This is the worst couple of hours waste of time of my entire life. There's nothing interesting about this movie

Weird, pretentious musical, stocked with neurotic whiners, you are dying to see smother each other with pillows... I can watch some pretty obnoxious TEOTWAWKI flicks. And I like the odd Musical. But this combo was horrific. And not in a *good* way. 2h30m better spent on something that didn't require three attempts to get to the end credits ... ✨️🔓🏆ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Slogged through to the Finish🔓✨️