arnold fan will holler in joy and fan of brainless action will holler in astonishment and and catholic will just holler . illogically write by andrew w. marlowe and ham handedly direct by peter hyams and end of day get the terminator out of his open back hospital gown ( arnold schwarzenegger return to the big screen after his heart operation ) and whilst blow thing up in mysterious way and blaspheme biblical verse to give catholic something more to whine about . it be 1999 and doom sayers the world over live in trepidation of their computer go fritz and lose their downloaded porn . even a the technological stank of y2k mutton the new york street and ex cop turn alcoholic security guard and jericho cane ( schwarzenegger and with the perfunctory dead wife and kid back story for loose cannon effect ) and must brave theological water to save 20 year old virgin christine ( robin tunney ) from be conscript a wait for it the bride of satan . dun dah daaaarrrh . stupidity ensues . for every anti hero and there be his anti christ . gabriel byrne be the devil here and he out to party like it 1999 and on a mission to impregnate christine with the anti christ between 11 pm and 12 midnight and december 31 and 1999 ironically and in the hour that all porn will be lose thereby bring about the end of day . be able to read mind and conjure hallucination and employ limitless magic and it doesn not occur to satan to expedite the impregnation process by appear month in advance and court christine a a teen model and then close the panty raid easily at the appointed time while instead and he appear on december 28th like a keyser soze terminator and wonder why she doesn not welcome him with open thigh ( see above comment re represent stupidity . ) here be a movie where nothing make sense the moment it be uttered and let alone after contemplate it veracity or mythology . a priest ( rod steiger ) tell jericho that 666 be really 999 upside down with a 1 in front of it . so wait prince be the anti christ . satan soze pursues jericho and christine ( j and c get it . ) around town and at no point do anything which would actually precipitate their capture . in one scene and satan recreates jericho wife and child to tempt him into reveal where he hide christine . but if he can see so deeply into jericho mind in recreate his family with enough nuance to inspire nostalgia and why can not he see where jericho hid christine not ten minute ago . satan can make an assassin talk without a tongue and yet he can not make that assassin unjam a semi automatic weapon . and when jericho shoot satan at point blank range and satan be courteous enough to open his shirt to reveal the wound closing and so jericho would not worry unduly about satan health not sanitary to go about with open bullet wound matter of fact and instead of simply possess jericho himself to get close to christine and rape her and satan expends so much unnecessary energy on side project ( crucify the tongue less guy and blow up jericho partner ( kevin pollak ) and then save him and and then blow him up again and ridiculously battle jericho when he could snuff him out with the effort of thought ) that we wonder whether a more efficient assassin or lover shouldn not be put on the case say and antonio banderas . what i find most precious about end of day be arnold valiant attempt at the method represent sad mean scrunch up his eye and not blurt out anything in a foreign accent while depressed mean raise a bottle to his lip and not blurt out anything in a foreign accent while deathly scar mean widen his eye and not blurt out anything in a foreign accent . there definitely a pattern here and if we could only decipher it . in the end and the devil be dispatch not by the holy men whom catholic pray to for deliverance from apocalypse such a these and but from the atheist jericho . while the timid men of an impotent god exhort faith and quiver in their cell do nothing about satan actually walk amongst them and the prince of darkness be thwart by a nullifidian with a big gun and a foreign accent . which clearly say something that catholic blindly refuse to hear represent that even if the devil be to exist and those who have be indoctrinate to unconditionally and irrationally fear him would be unable to conjure a belief in his downfall and let alone act towards it . far and they might not truly want him defeated and for only through his contrary polarity do their god existence become tenable . for it be write in the book of revelation represent and the prince of darkness shall descendeth upon the earth without any solid game plan and and impregnate a virgin on a date which would not have any significance until the gregorian calendar of the 1500s adopts the day number which will put it in sync with the equinox and the anno domine syntax which will annoy sensible people for millennium and by which time and christian will have forget christ actual birth date and appropriate the pagan saturnalia festival in it stead . and the prince shall effect a revolution through tight purple pant and ambiguously lesbian band member i can believe the people be drain of blood and crucify and and the alcoholic build like a mr. universe while i can believe that a giant and supernatural monster can not kill a guy arm only with a foreign accent while i can even believe that the devil need to perform some hokey thirteenth century celtic druid ritual a foreplay but what i can not believe be the 20 year old virgin in new york city in 1999. especially around prince .