Endgame - Bronx lotta finale

1983
TV-14
1h 38m

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A telepathic mutant recruits a post-World War III TV game-show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.A telepathic mutant recruits a post-World War III TV game-show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.A telepathic mutant recruits a post-World War III TV game-show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.

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Lilith
(as Moira Chen)

George Eastman

Kurt Karnak

Dino Conti

Professor Levin
(as Jack Davis)

Hal Yamanouchi

Ninja

Gabriele Tinti

Bull
(as Gus Stone)

Mario Pedone

Kovack

Gordon Mitchell

Col. Morgan

Nello Pazzafini

Kijawa
(as Nat Williams)

Christopher Walsh

Tommy

Franco Ukmar

Stark
(as Frank Ukmar)

Bobby Rhodes

Woody Aldridge

Alberto Dell'Acqua

Gabe Mantrax
(as Al Waterman)

David Brown

Speaker

Carlos Alberto Valles

Committee Member
(as Carlos Valles)

Richard Novak

TV Technician

Pietro Ceccarelli

Blue Mutant
(as Peter Brighton)

Angelo Casadei

Citizen
(uncredited)

Director
- Joe D'Amato
Writers
- Joe D'Amato
- Aldo Florio
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Trivia
Of all his movies, director Joe D'Amato has stated that he likes this one best.

Goofs
Lilith repeatedly demonstrates the ability to communicate telepathically with Ron Shannon. It's also repeatedly made clear that she and the other mutants are supposed to hide the fact that they are telepathic from the other members of Shannon's team. So why does she risk blowing her cover by leaping from the back of the van to warn Shannon of a trap? Shouldn't she be able to give him the warning telepathically?

Quotes
Blue Mutant: Look at me while I rape you dammit!
Ron Shannon: [telepathically] I'm getting pink and blue flashes. Lilith, are you alright? Lilith, answer me.
Lilith: [telepathically] Yes, Shannon, I'm fine!
Blue Mutant: You really know how to turn a guy on!

Alternate versions
The UK Stablecane video was cut by 41 secs by the BBFC to edit a rape scene and to remove some violence including a neck break and a man being axed in the head.

Connections
Featured in Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut: The Horror Experience (2001)

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The viewer is the victim

My review was written in January 1986 after watching the movie on Cinemax.

"Endgame" is a rather weak entry in the crowded post-WW III series of Italian action films made circa 1983. Emanating from the Helen Sarlui pic stable (though she does not take a screen credit), item was mulled for a while as a New Line theatrical release but went instead to pay-tv and home video.

Misleading opening reel establishes a tv game in the year 2012 called "Endgame", quite similar to Robert Sheckley's concept used in the classic "The Tenth Victim" (and recently updated in another Italian pic, "The Final Executioner"). Al Cliver toplines as a successful warrior in the killing game who is recruited by a telepathic mutant Lilith (Laura Gemser) to help her band of mutants leave the city (where they are subject to extermination by storm trooper-styled soldiers) to set up a new community.

The tv game is over in 20 minutes, with the remainder of the film given over to fights en route to delivering the mutants. Action scenes are perfunctory, with none of the thrills to the model for this genre, "The Road Warrior".

Given the poor dubbing of these pictures, "Endgame" benefits from its telepathy gimmick, which allows many dialog scenes to have staring faces with no lips moving as the thoughts are voiced-over on the soundtrack. Acting is stilted, with the ubiquitous husband-and-wife team of Laura Gemser and Gabriele Tinti both credited with different "real" names, Moira Chen and Gus Stone, respectively. Freeze-frame non-ending is poor.