Aedonerre
I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Tayyab Torres
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Yash Wade
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
Paul Magne Haakonsen
When I sat down to watch "Operation: Endgame" (aka "Rogues Gallery") I had no idea at all what the movie was about. The reason why I wanted to watch it was because of the people on the cast list.I found out that this was an action comedy, although I will admit that the movie is more lenient towards the action as it towards comedy. The comedy is there, yes, but it is fairly subtle but straight to the point.The story is about a group of government assassins who work in a secret underground compound. The assassins are known only by the names from the Tarot card deck. And when new assassin, The Fool, arrives for his first work day, the boss of the operation is killed and operation: endgame is initiated, giving the assassins only limited time to escape the compound. But some assassins have been given secret targets to kill, and with nowhere to run, whom can you trust? I will say that the storyline was entertaining, albeit a bit silly.There is nothing in the movie to make you buy into it, and as such it does come off as a comedy on the action genre. The storyline is simplistic and easy to follow, requiring you to disable your brain and just sit back and enjoy the ride.Although working with fairly two-dimensional characters, there was an impressive list of people to be found on the cast list here.For a comedy, then "Operation: Endgame" didn't really deliver that much impact, and if you enjoy these type of covert government operation comedies, then there are some better choices available. But still, "Operation: Endgame" is worth a watch for about 87 minutes worth of entertainment that doesn't require you to bring along your brain.
lonelylittlestar
I watched this movie purely for Emilie De Ravin as Hierophant, but let me tell you, I was pleasantly amused! I'm not a big fan of violent comedies, but if you view this as more or less an assassin parody, it's a million times better. What really makes it is the security men up watching them all kill each other and reacting the same way I did, complete with shouts of "GET HIM!" and gagging. The cast is fun, the script expectantly awful in all the right ways, but this is NOT a movie to take seriously. Watch it when you have nothing better to do and have a good laugh. The twists and turns are fun and the score is pretty easy listening as well.
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.
MBunge
What happened to the funny? This thing started out funny. Its premise of CIA black ops as just another corporate work environment was funny. Rob Corddry was absolutely killing it with the funny. Then
the funny went away. I don't know where it went. I don't know why it went. All I know is this bait-and-switch replaced the funny with limp political commentary and fight scenes that ranged from passable to "I've seen better hand-to-hand combat on Star Trek".I hesitate to describe this film's set up because you might be tempted to watch it no matter how much I tell you it ends up sucking. Well, here goes
On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, a new agent (Joe Anderson) starts work at The Factory. That's the super-secret base of two teams of competing spies/assassins, Alpha and Omega, who are basically responsible for every bad thing that's every happened in the world. The teams hate each other with a passion and are a combination of corporate stereotypes like the Aging Slut (Ellen Barkin), the Alcoholic Burnout (Rod Corddry) and the Office Weirdo (Brandon T. Jackson). Then the guy in charge of The Factory turns up dead, a self-destruct program is triggered and the two teams need to work together to escape, but they decide killing each other is a better way to spend their time.Everything about the beginning of Operation: Endgame plays out like a satire of corporate culture. From the agents all working out of little cubicles to those cubicles having name plates with the agents' code names, there are so many little touches that are laugh out loud when you notice them. And by starting out with the over-the-top anger and bitterness of Corddry's character being paired off with the blank slate of Joe Anderson's new guy, everything seems primed for this to be a delightful black comedy. Then
the funny goes away.Aside from a few scenes with Ellen Barkin, this movie abandons jokes and humorous transposition of corporate ethos into the world of James Bond and Jason Borne. Instead, it turns into an action/espionage romp, with a cast that mostly doesn't know how to stage fight, that slobbers all over you with the Bush to Obama transfer as a metaphor. It devolves from something truly clever into the same crap you've seen a thousand times before, just a bit more pretentious this time around.I'm usually not disappointed by bad movies because their badness is made clear early on. With Operation: Endgame, however, it's like the first third of the script was written by a smart person trying to have some fun and the rest was written by someone less smart who was just trying to earn a paycheck. If you do watch this film, take my advice. When you notice you've gone 5 minutes without laughing at anything, turn it off because it's not going to get any better.