This is the way the world ends.
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$17,000,000
Revenue
$374,743
Release Date
November 14, 2007
Popularity
2
Director
Richard Kelly
Writer
Richard Kelly
Producer
Bo Hyde
Producer
Sean McKittrick
Where to Watch
Cast
Dwayne Johnson
Boxer Santaros / Jericho Cane
Seann William Scott
Roland Taverner / Ronald Taverner
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Krysta Kapowski / Krysta Now
Mandy Moore
Madeline Frost-Santaros
Justin Timberlake
Private Pilot Abilene
Miranda Richardson
Nana Mae Frost
Wallace Shawn
Baron Von Westphalen
Bai Ling
Serpentine
Nora Dunn
Cyndi Pinziki
John Larroquette
Vaughn Smallhouse
Kevin Smith
Simon Theory
Amy Poehler
Veronica Mung / Dream
Wood Harris
Dion Element
Zelda Rubinstein
Dr. Katarina Kuntzler
Beth Grant
Dr. Inga Von Westphalen
Janeane Garofalo
General Teena MacArthur
Cheri Oteri
Zora Charmichaels
Jon Lovitz
Bart Bookman
Holmes Osborne
Senator Bobby Frost
Will Sasso
Fortunio Balducci
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Reviews
JPV852
Saw this one many years ago and really didn't care much for it. Watching it again, now the 'Cannes Cut', I absolutely... hated it. A bit of a shame since I love Donnie Darko (the director's cut especially) and where that one managed to blend social commentary with end-of-the world science fiction pretty well, this one did not. In fact, it was a real mess. However the biggest issue, beyond being downright boring at times, where I liked the characters in Donnie Darko, here I really couldn't care less. I would compare Richard Kelly to someone like M. Night Shyamalan, but least he had a couple solid films after The Sixth Sense to hang his hat on, Kelley's films following Donnie Darko (including his third film, The Box), were just nonsensical pretentious messes. **1.5/5**
