bowmanblue Sometimes you may want a film to twist and turn, keeping you guessing at all times. Other times, you may just want a bit of straightforward carnage. This is the latter.It's about a top secret base, located under Washington, where two teams of secret agents try to kill each other off. We're introduced to each one briefly, before their boss is killed and the two teams go to war.What follows is one fight scene after the next, until the killer is finally revealed. Unfortunately, that's all it is. It is quite a short film and having many characters means that most of them are pretty one-dimensional stereotypes who you won't really care if they live or die. Plus some of the good characters are killed off too early, leaving the annoying ones still standing.On the plus side, the base is under constant surveillance and the two men charged with overseeing the mayhem are quite funny as they watch the bloodshed unfold without being able to affect the outcome.The budget is pretty small - don't expect any 'Matrix-like' fight scenes, but at least the duelling is well done, with the agents utilising one piece of office equipment after the next to despatch their adversary.Operation: Endgame isn't anything special, but if you like seeing people keep fighting each other in a 'last man standing' kind of way then you won't waste too much time watching the eighty minutes that it is.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

zardoz-13 Freshman director Fouad Mikati's "Operation Endgame" is a contrived actioneer about two rival teams of top secret government assassins who try to wipe out each other with extreme prejudice. Okay, this mildly funny 81-minute thriller never scrapes the bottom of the barrel, but it squanders a good cast. Ellen Barkin, Maggie Q, Zach Galifianakis, Ving Rhames, Rob Corddry, and Jeffrey Tabor struggle to make the best of a second-rate situation. Some of the close quarters combat scenes conclude with a surprise or two. Corddry spouts the best lines of dialogue laced with profanity. Mikati and "Bandits" scenarist Sam Levinson spend the first twenty minutes providing hopelessly loquacious exposition about the Factory as well as the agents and their reputations. They do an adequate job of sketching at least one dimension into a gallery of oddball characters, but they emerge a little more than caricatures. Mikati alternates the action between the personnel in the underground facility and two men and one woman who maintain surveillance above them. These two guys furnish commentary about what happens in "Operation Endgame." Essentially, they represent another perspective on the plot that we would not get from the assassins below them. The CGI depiction of the Factory is reminiscent of the graphic depiction of the Hive in the first "Resident Evil" epic."Operation Endgame" opens as a new agent, Fool (Jon Anderson of "The Grey"), spends his first day at work. Undoubtedly, some of the comedy is fueled by this irony that the first day at work for our hero could be his last day. According to Alpha agent High Priestess (Maggie Q of "Priest"), the Factory is an elite espionage cell that the U.S. government doesn't acknowledge. Unofficial covert operatives staff the agency. Another agent, Chariot (Rob Corddry of "Semi-Pro") informs the naïve Fool that the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff created the Factory in 1962 primarily for 'false flag operations. He adds that President Lyndon Johnson instituted the two team system in 1967 to create a balance the power. The Alpha team intervenes when presidents, UN officials, and American politicians condemn the military industrial complex and urge Congress to halt the spending hundreds of billions of dollars on endless wars. Conversely, Alpha exists to thwart Omega "from bringing forth the apocalypse. Fool concludes that the two team systems achieve nothing but a stalemate. One individual designated as 'the Devil' supervises both teams. According to Chariot, the Devil is "a portly bastard with manicured nails, no real field experience, and the sharp wit of a six-year of autistic boy." The agents must disarm themselves and place their firearms and other weapons into lockers before they can descend by elevator into the bowels of the Factory. The Devil makes them disarm themselves because he fears one of them may attempt to kill him. Despite this precaution, somebody does kill the Devil and all Hell breaks loose. The action takes place in an underground base called 'The Factory' and the opposing bands of killers draw their names from Tarot cards. Devil calls a conference, but he doesn't live to convene it because Hermit (Zach Galifianakis of "The Hangover") kills Devil by stabbing him with several pencils. The demise of Devil, however, triggers a system the augurs ill for the Alpha and Omega agents. Operation Endgame commences with a two hour countdown to destruction. According to Alpha agent Magician (Adam Scott of "Step Brothers"), "Project Endgame is The Factory's be-all, end-all contingency device. It activates a physical and communicative lockdown before setting a time that will vaporize this place at the end of two hours." The two teams decide to team up to find Hermit and try to escape before everything blows. The most imaginative that "Operation Endgame" gets occurs when the assassins have to improvise to create weapons so they can kill each other.Altogether, "Operation Endgame" is like "Reservoir Dogs" done with a government spin. Something goes horribly wrong in the first half-hour, and everybody tries to slaughter each other out of a warped sense of paranoia. Mikati does a fair-to-middling job staging the action scenes. He doesn't shrink from showing blood and gore, but not enough occurs here to gross anybody out. Unfortunately, despite its modest production values and its competent but misused cast, "Operation Endgame" isn't memorable, either for its combat sequences or its profanity. The sight of Chariot swilling liquor from a bottle shaped like an automatic pistol runs out of spontaneity. The gals all look pretty good, except for Ellen Barkin. She looks like a monster in her tight-fitting outfit. I bought this lackluster shoot'em up on Blu-ray from a discount bin at Walgreen's Drug Store and paid $5.99 plus tax for it. As comedies go, "Operation Endgame" is neither funny nor fresh. This film fares better as a standard issue shoot'em up rather than a satire.

fearthepeople I would recommend everyone just go and watch the show Archer instead of this frustratingly stupid piece of work, which essentially comes off like a bunch of less-than-exceptional college film students with way too much budget attempting to be the show Archer. The premise, that top espionage agents curse and yell at each other in the manner of 19-year-olds pregaming a house party, gets tired within the first 5 minutes, as soon as you realize that the writers really don't have any other comedic ideas to offer, and that the story and characters themselves are all mind-numbingly uninteresting. Besides this fundamental lack of vision, the other flaw that really does this film in is its inability to set the right tone, which flounders around between lame indie drama, badly-choreographed action scenes, and amateur-improv-group-style comedic exchanges.

FlashCallahan Literally painful to watch from beginning to end, the film, depends on what side of the pond your on to the the title, comprises of a few recognisable actors who have been good in classic movies, trying to kill each other finding a mole.This should have been a blast, it could have been so funny, there is some talent here, who can deliver some cracking pieces of dialogue, but when the script and the story is as bad as this, it shows not even the most sarcastic, scathing comment can be given justice.If you fancy the film from the cover of the blu-ray, heed warning, Galifiniakis is in the film for about five minutes all in all, and sounds most of this time doing nothing. He's in it for no real reason at all.Rhames is in it, but not for long, and whenever i saw him in this, i just yearned for Marcellus, or even diamond dog.The rest of the cast are risible, to keep the steady awfulness of the film going. The guy from HTTM is as annoying as ever, Maggie Q looks as bored as hell, and Brandon T. Jackson, wears a false nose.Ellen Barkin gives the best performance to be fair, but then her put downs become yawn-some.This is sloppy film making at it's worse.Avoid.