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This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Describing the flaws of this movie would take up too much space. But, the main thing is - it's not very fun or funny. It has a few moments, but nothing special.But, it's not terrible.So, what's good about it?The women are hot. Ellen Barkin looks _amazing_ for her age. Others, not so much, but are hot.The whole ensemble cast is pretty strong, don't take themselves or the whole thing seriously and just go with it. Since the whole thing is bad, they can't get much out of it, but, still, they pull out something.The underlying premise that people in government agencies, even deadly ones, either don't really care about their jobs or are crazy is also nice and to the point.You do get a feeling that the whole idea and the cast could have made something much, much better, but, what we're left with is just not that good and really worth watching. There are much better comedies out there.

Rogue's Gallery, given the slightly lamer title of Operation: Endgame, is a very odd little amalgamation of extreme violence, comedic banter and wannabe spy intrigue. It concerns a group of government agents holed up in some remote bunker, basically taking each other out one by one after someone among them murders their boss, Emporer (Bob Odenkirk). The cast is made up of two types of actors: sleek, distinct genre bad asses and quirky, less aesthetically streamlined comedians who stand out in this type of material very strangely. Fool (Joe Anderson) is the rookie, being shown the ropes of his first day by Chariot (a hilarious Rob Cordry). That's where the plot starts, and that is also where it lost me. The rest of the film is just all of them bickering until it gets way beyond words, and then murdering each other in shamelessly gratuitous ways. Ellen Barkin stands out as Empress, a b&@tchy old tart who has it in for Devil (Jeffrey Tambor) another senior operative. Emilie De Ravin steps wayyyy outside her comfort zone as Hierophant, a psychotic little doll faced southern Belle who gives hulking Juggernaut (Ving Rhames) a run for his money. There's also work from Odette Yustman, Maggie Q, Adam Scott, Brandon T. Jackson, and Zach Galifianakis as a weird character that I still can't figure out, perhaps because he does not much of anything at all except mope around wearing a hazmat suit and looking very hungover. It's cool to see these actors give each other hell and fight like two raccoons in a burlap sack (the violence in this is really vicious, especially when Ravin is involved), if not much else. Very odd stuff.

This was funny....really funny. Corddry had me in stitches in the opening scene. I had to rewind several times because I missed the rest of what he was saying due to laughter. The two security guards were likewise on point - great deadpan. There was humor throughout.I liked the characters and felt a subtle satire aimed at all the suave secret agent movies like Wanted, James Bond and Mission Impossible.Movie included fight scenes with ample violence and blood. Smart-ass dialog. Small romantic subplots. What is not to like here??? Just a really fun fly by your pants movie. I don't believe it is meant to be taken seriously, so sit back and enjoy.

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.