End of Days (film)
End of Days is a 1999 American action horror thriller film directed by Peter Hyams and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak, Rod Steiger, CCH Pounder, and Udo Kier. The film follows former New York Police Department detective Jericho Cane Schwarzenegger after he saves a banker Byrne from an assassin, finds himself embroiled in a religious conflict, and must protect an innocent young woman Tunney who is chosen by evil forces to conceive the Antichrist with Satan.
In 1979 a priest at the Vatican sees a comet arching over the moon described as the Eye of God, heralding the birth of one chosen to be the mother of Satans child. The priest is sent on a mission by the pope Mark Margolis to find and protect the girl from Satan, although a few Vatican knights led by a corrupt cardinal Michael OHagan insist that she must die. In New York a newborn girl, Christine York Robin Tunney, is identified by Satanists including her physician, Dr. Abel Udo Kier, and her nurse and future guardian, Mabel Miriam Margolyes as the person chosen to bear Satans child on New Years Eve, 1999. The Satanists perform occult rites on the newborn.In late 1999, Satan possesses an investment banker Gabriel Byrne in a restaurant he then destroys the restaurant, killing many inside. Suicidal and alcoholic former police detective Jericho Cane Arnold Schwarzenegger, depressed since his wife and daughter Denice D. Lewis and Renee Olstead respectively were killed in contract killings, works for a private security company and blames God for his plight. Jericho and coworker Bobby Chicago Kevin Pollak are assigned to protect the possessed banker. A priest, Thomas Aquinas Derrick OConnor, unsuccessfully tries to kill the banker. Jericho captures Aquinas, who tells Jericho The thousand years has ended, the dark angel is loosed from his prison and says that a girl is central. Jericho shoots Aquinas, who is arrested by the New York Police Department. Marge Francis C. C. H. Pounder, an NYPD detective and Jerichos former colleague, tells him that Aquinas has no tongue. ........
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