Steineded How sad is this?

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

jameswilliams784 I felt compelled to do this review after reading so many very negative reviews of this movie. This movie is certainly not a classic, but it is a decent thriller. Yes sometimes the story gets a bit predictable and could use some more suspense. The moves stars Angie Harmon and Cuba Gooding Jr and both are very good in this movie. Angie plays a reporter trying to investigate the Assassination of the President and Cuba Gooding Jr plays a Secret Service agent who is also trying to find out who killed the President. Anne Archer has a much to small role in this movie, she is a great actress and movie could have used her character having a larger role. James Woods and Burt Reynolds are also in the movie and do a decent job, which in the case of Burt Reynolds is surprising to me since I hardly ever like a movie he is in. I think for me what this movie was lacking was some romance. It could have been between Angie and Cuba, or even perhaps with Cuba having an affair with Anne Archer but something was needed to spice up this movie. Still this is a very watchable movie, sit back and enjoy it.

Leofwine_draca IN THE LINE OF FIRE is given the BOURNE treatment in this stylish, action-packed thriller which sees security agent Cuba Gooding Jr. uncovering a conspiracy plot behind a presidential assassination. Along the way, he pairs up with irritating female reporter Angie Harmon and comes up against underrated movie villain Peter Greene (UNDER SIEGE 2: DARK TERRITORY).END GAME is an entirely familiar beast and indeed almost everything that plays out can be easily predicted by the seasoned viewer. Indeed, as soon as I saw one character I said to myself "yep, he's the villain'" and sure enough my suspicions were realised come the end. Nevetheless, this proves to be a more than adequate piece of entertainment, thanks to decent pacing and lots of tense, taut moments.Much of the action pays the inevitable debt to Paul Greengrass by incorporating super-fast editing and cross-cutting between characters, although there's a bizarre homage to John Woo about halfway through during the factory shoot-out which comes about ten years too late.Gooding Jr. makes for an able protagonist and the likes of James Woods, Anne Archer and Jack Scalia flesh out decent character roles, although thankfully Burt Reynolds and his distracting face-lift are kept to a minimum of screen time. END GAME will win no awards for originality, but I've seen worse, including the same year's much bigger-budgeted THE SENTINEL with Michael Douglas.

Julianne McFey This movie had a crazy good trailer, crazy good cast, and I was very excited to see it. The plot was action packed and mysterious. Just the right ingredients for a great thriller.Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Angie Harmon worked very well together. Great chemistry and clever quips between the two of them. The ing cast was great and added a whole new layer to the plot. Being on the run from potential bad guys (everyone's a suspect), there are some tense moments.And the bad guys? The bad guys were very scary and very effective. I tell ya, this movie had it all. I was keyed on the entire time. From beginning to end. And just when you think you know who did it --- exactly. The ending will leave you wanting more, believe me.

sol1218 **MAJOR SPOILERS** With his second term coming to an end as the President, Jack Scalia, is about to give his farewell address to a overflow and cheering crowd in the nation's capital tragedy strikes. As fate would have it he never made it to the podium to give his speech.As the assassin, with a forged journalist badge, pops out of the crowd and gets off a shot the President's personal Secret Service man Alex Thomas (Cuba Goodling Jr), who's job it is to guard him with his life, sticks out his hand and the bullet hits and ricochets off it. This courageous act on Agent Thomas' part causes the assassin's bullet, that would have missed, to hit the president in the chest leaving him mortally wounded. The assassin Lewis Detimore, Patrick Treadway, is killed on the spot by Agent Thomas and a number of other Secret Service agents before he can get off a second shot that may well had hit the First Lady, Anne Archer, and killed her as well.At first the killer is thought to be your average lone nut assassin with the case of the murdered president solved before the story hit the morning papers. Not for a moment believing the official story nosy and hot-shot Washington Inlander reporter Kate Crawford, Angle Harmon, smelled a big scoop and went after it. Uncovering the dead assassin's background Kate soon realizes that Detimore who was dying of cancer was in fact a Lee Harvey Oswald-like pasty planted at the scene to take the heat off those who really had the president done in.Getting in touch with a now dead drunk and guilt-ridden Agent Thomas, over his inability of not saving the president's life, Kate tries to get him to realize that there's more to the president's murder then what meets the eye or makes the 6:00 O'Clock Evening News. It's not Kate who convinces Thomas but a number of operatives, in the president's assassination, who soon end up dead in their trying to murder both him and Kate in order to keep their mouths shut!Your basic conspiracy movie that has both Agent Thomas and reporter Kate Crawford in the both gun and bomb sights of those who did in the President of the United States. As it becomes more and more obvious to the American public, through Kate's reporting, that the deceased assassin, Lewis Detimore, didn't act alone Secret Service Chief Vaughn Stevens, James Woods, makes the uncovering of who was behind the president's murder top priority. You soon begin to realize that the top priority that Stephens has in mind is really to cover his and is agency's a** in not preventing the assassination then in finding out who actually committed it!Not at first really knowing it Agent Thomas had, in trying to cover up his beloved president's secret life, already solved who was the person responsible and the reason behind the murder the president! But as it later tuned out Thomas was either too naive or unmotivated, in not consciously wanting to believe who had the president killed, that he completely overlooked it!***SPOILER ALERT*** The shocking truth, after about a dozen people end up getting killed in the film, to who set up the president and who in fact was the brains behind his murder really isn't that shocking at all. Having stepped on a number of powerful peoples toes during his tenure as the President of the United States those who wanted to do the President in not only had the means in doing it but also very personal reasons for having it done! And what both Agent Thomas and reporter Kate Crawford were soon to find out, to their utter shock and frustration, is that these very powerful people were too far up the totem pole, in the Washington D.C political establishment, to ever be brought to justice for doing it!