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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
NERV faces a brutal attack from SEELE, but with Asuka in a coma, and Shinji in a nervous breakdown, things soon turn into the surreal. This movie provides an concurrent ending to the final two episodes of the show "Neon Genesis Evangelion".
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

1997
Drama, Fantasy
1h 27m
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Avg Percentile 72.12% from 1496 total ratings

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Rated 26 Jul 2009
100
99th
Climax. That's what this film is. Due to it being the conclusion to eight hours of exposition, the entire movie is a 3rd Act. And, because we have grown so attached to these characters, everything they suffer affects you much harder than whatever happens to characters in other movies. It's also the best movie ever made about depression and suicide, with each sound and image stemming from the mind of someone who has been through Hell and is able to guide others out. This movie saved my life.
Rated 11 Oct 2011
70
59th
Good, but an overrated Sartre wank. For all its endeavours to wriggle into worthwhile psychological/philosophical territory, it operates in a universe different to ours and therefore has limited purchase. Our world has neither AT Fields nor Angels. Looks cool at times, interesting enough. Just limited. And dorky.
Rated 30 Sep 2015
88
75th
Both brilliant and infuriating. It refuses to take the easy route or deliver any easy answers.
Rated 22 Jan 2010
87
87th
Anime has its existential apocalypse down pretty well. This one is more surreal than Akira's gritty decline into madness--a climactic finale (seeing the original TV series first is a must) and the nihilistic antithesis to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Rated 21 Apr 2007
93
97th
Takes the plot and character development from the series to their logical conclusion: there is no manning up, no easy way out. There is only raw emotional anguish, and one of the most unsettling apocalyptic scenarios imaginable. Everything is in top form here, from the animation to the music to Anno's direction to Megumi Ogata's blood-curdling screams. Yet despite all the suffering, the message is one of the most profoundly simple and optimistic imaginable. That last line is perfect.
Rated 05 Dec 2008
90
95th
What Annos muse told him: Break apart every single character you've crafted in such pompously pathos-filled fashion, Anno. Zoom in on what was Shinji for the TV ending. Pan out and show the incomprehensible, symbolic yet empty world for this. And you will have created not a masterpiece, but two masterpieces.
Rated 19 Dec 2008
92
96th
Absolutely spell-binding at parts, and mind-blowing at others. I cannot put this movie properly into words, but it is a perfect companion piece to episodes 25 and 26 of the series. It's very abstract and difficult to follow, but I can't imagine anyone walking away from this movie not feeling a complex mix of emotions.
Rated 19 Jan 2009
90
89th
An outstanding piece of existential art; its only flaw being you have to see the entire original TV series to even know where to start. Anno takes the deepest anxieties about human nature, focuses them on how we relate to others, and gives a finger to your expectations. The ending still disturbs me.
Rated 18 Jan 2010
95
96th
It's hard to describe End of Evangelion. If you gave me five, five-hundred, or five-thousand words I'd struggle. So I'll simply say the facts. End of Evangelion is the perfect way to end a phenomenal series. It's thought provoking, exciting, brilliantly paced and directed, and both emotionally draining and rewarding. I can think of no other film that so viscerally affects it's viewers, nor one that so completely fulfills them. An absolute masterpiece.
Rated 07 Jul 2012
100
98th
I absolutely adored the TV series and truly loved the original episodes 25 and 26 of that series. However, this movie truly escalated all the themes and character development in that series to unbelievable heights. It is rare that most live action movies can achieve the level of beauty and poignancy that End of Evangelion reached. What a wonderful and immaculate end to a nearly perfect series.
Rated 18 Apr 2008
97
97th
The heartbreaking, disturbing, and incomparably apocalyptic ending of the story. I can't even relate in this little space how many awesome elements there are to this show, from the robots and clones to psychological cataclysms and injecting Bakelite into the hallways to keep the secret base safe from armed invaders. This movie is so intense. I have mixed feelings about the ending, but it's an unbelievable film.
Rated 29 Sep 2008
80
87th
If 2001 A Space Odyssey went about showing the evolution of humankind, then this is certainly the antithesis to that.
Rated 25 Sep 2011
6
95th
This series is not all it's cracked up to be. I've still watched it in its entirety three times already, but I never feel that the ideas present are explored to there fullest extent. Not in the least. And there's a handful of filler (as to be expected) so all things said I've got lots of problems here. Am I still thinking about watching the new remixed form currently in production? Hell yes.
Rated 18 Feb 2014
99
99th
my rating of this probably completely sabotages my very vague and inconsistent standards for rating but hey this is central to my life. for better or worse. mostly for worse. i hate myself.
Rated 17 Dec 2016
4
70th
(Rated as part and parcel with the series.) If NGE has a tendency for its headier musings to be half-baked, End of Evangelion certainly dives into them full-bore, and while the overall philosophy is still pretty thin, it's certainly less vague than the end of the series proper: The Book of Revelation in mecha anime form. I'm a fan of anything willing to cross hyperviolent action with trippy, psychedelic imagery.
Rated 27 Nov 2017
81
83rd
Extremely disturbing apocalyptic vision. I was really surprised at how brutally Anno wields his postmodern deconstructionist conviction, cutting deep with total existential horror. I don't usually fall for that crap but this worked for me in the context of these particular conventions. It's still massively contrived & loose with its symbolism & plot concepts but manages to triumph with its uncompromising vision & delivers an emotional power punch if you can willingly turn the other cheek.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
52nd
I liked this ending much better than the teevee series ending.
Rated 05 Oct 2008
8
78th
Crazy and fantastic ending to an outstanding and mindblowing show, one of the best ever made.
Rated 21 Jan 2009
61
54th
A bad ending to a great story.
Rated 26 Jan 2009
70
54th
Overrated alternative ending of a great series.
Rated 17 Apr 2009
10
97th
A perfect ending to the series. Nothing is out of place in this masterfully directed film. Constantly boggling the mind and reaches new depths throughout the feature. Emotions are thrown around through every unique scene that have one common reaction in "wow". Works as an anime equivalent to something out of Charlie Kaufman's book.
Rated 14 May 2009
100
99th
Experiments with the medium of animation and pushes it to the limit. The direction, the animation, the music, the sheer creative artistry on display here is absolutely astounding. Images from this film have been forever ingrained vividly in my mind. Unquestionably my favorite film, bar none.
Rated 20 Jul 2009
3
74th
I have to admire the guts it took to make something like this. After the mystifying anti-conclusion to the series The End of Evangelion gives us the other half of the story, the ending that occurs in the real world. Anno is obviously completely crazy and your enjoyment of this film will absolutely rely on your enjoyment of anime as a whole, but I have to give Anno credit for the sheer audacity of this thing. It's certainly something you won't forget.
Rated 20 Aug 2009
100
86th
Excellent movie, and a must watch for any Eva fan. Adds even more meaning and depth to a series that in my opinion touched on every aspect of life but physical and meta-physical.
Rated 25 Nov 2010
95
98th
One of my favorite movies, animated or otherwise. As much as I loved the original tv series, this movie adds a fantastic punctuation to the ending of the aforementioned. Focusing particularly on Shinji and Asuka, who are coincidentally my favorite characters in the series, the movie is even more twisted and depressing than the original with many a character death. But at the end of the film is a message, that I believe, is full of hope. Of course, the tv series is a must watch beforehand.
Rated 13 Feb 2011
47
5th
Ugh, what completely overwritten tripe. It's not just that it's full of half baked ideas, but also that most of them aren't even examined in the most basic sense. They're just mishmashed together in hamfisted exposition, then put in a convoluted plot so that the effort it takes to discern them gives the impression of depth. I guess it doesn't help that I don't find the film's point of view appealing, nor the fetishistic art style. I did watch the series, BTW, also a mistake.
Rated 28 May 2012
90
98th
Exquisite mindfuckery and excellent torture and turmoil of characters we are only too invested in because we've come to know them so well.
Rated 30 Oct 2013
54
32nd
Randomly chosen kids pilote huge robots to save the world from motiveless invaders. And a teenage guy masturbates and is generally being a disgusting loser. And a teenage girl is being a disgusting teenage prick. And then a lot of pseudo-philosophical bullshit is thrown in to supposedly justify all that crap. Anime at its most ridiculous. NGE should never have been made as it's the main reason why so many people think all anime is crap. Even DBZ is better in all honesty.
Rated 15 Dec 2013
18
98th
Given all the remakes, Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of those series with many issues regarding identity, just like its director. Although I loved the two original episodes, The End of Evangelion surpasses them in every way
Rated 20 Jul 2015
7
67th
On a scale of 1 to the last 20 minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I'd probably rank this an 8, which is somewhere near Holy Mountain in terms of psychedelic incomprehensibility. Hideaki Anno is totally cool with human extinction and wants to make it abundantly clear that growing up is horrible and everyone you know will one day die. First part is hyper-violent and full of death, second part is psychological disintegration and a sea of symbolism and mythology. A bizarre alt-ending to a crazy show.
Rated 09 Oct 2015
58
53rd
Notes as I watch: 1) Lilith, Eva, Adam, Brave New world: promising terms thrown around in first minutes. 2) 'relationship between men and women is illogical' suggests self-indulgent pretentious crap. 3) shitty contrived action scene to save kid. Predicting the given terms will get messy analysis and wont coalesce or synthesize with the plot well. 4) lacking subtlety in emotion as always in anime. 5) part 2 is much better.
Rated 06 Jun 2016
8
64th
It has been a long time since I've watched this, but it messed with my young mind when I did.
Rated 31 Aug 2016
93
98th
This is a rare kind of movie that I'm happy to "not get" fully. Usually I feel like such movies get too bogged down in symbolism for their own good, but this is a case where the fact that I don't understand EVERY little moment means that I love to re-watch it and pick up on new things every time. I first watched this maybe 5 months ago, have re-watched it twice, and have enjoyed it just as much each time.
Rated 11 Sep 2016
79
91st
It's difficult to try and rank this movie with any degree of accuracy. It is probably weighed down the most by it's incredibly self-loathing narrative, and the characters can be a little bit 2-dimensional, but it has to also be said that this movie was and still is enormously shocking in subject matter, has one of the most impressive action sequences in cinema, and explores a sort of surreal feverish nightmare landscape at the end of the world. It's probably the best ending to any anime series.
Rated 31 Dec 2017
8
6th
This is absolutely awful. There is no justification for any of what happens. It strings adult themes together for no obvious reason; it fires weird on all cylinders, also with no justification; and it piles on ridiculous religious symbolism to a degree that is truly embarrassing. The show was decent, but this was terrible.
Rated 25 Jun 2019
88
88th
Satisfying as an ending to the series in every possible way - killer fights, hypnotic imagery, intense stakes, and headfuckery galore. The emotional and character arcs provide a decent compliment and sometimes counter-point to the final two episodes of the show, and the final scene is a creepy, enigmatic way to keep some mystery.
Rated 27 Jun 2019
85
92nd
The large scale companion to the show's more personal (and budget-restricted) ending. It is a simultaneously harrowing, exciting, depressing and hopeful conclusion that left enough room for interpretation to fuel decades of fan debate. Contains some of the most memorable sequences I have encountered in animation.
Rated 17 Jul 2019
58
50th
Contrived and elusive. It merely gave me a sense of 'neither me nor the writers have any idea what's going on'. There's no real plot, more of an avalanche of allusions, hints, metaphors...
Rated 01 Aug 2019
6
31st
incredibly cold and detached, completely missing even a sliver of the heart the series had. lots of random gobbledygook religion symbols and magical logic, eyeballs emerging from forehead pussies, complete nonsense. I think this was made right when everyone at Gianax started finding out about mushrooms because they've gone completely off the rails. I hate to say it but the insight into misato's background in the orig ep25/26 was more valuable to the story and characters than anything in here.
Rated 13 Aug 2019
15
6th
Its like if the most beautiful person in the world jerked off in front of me for 90 minutes and occasionally said my mom's name. Pretentious mess of a film with characters who bluntly say character traits and flaws. A movie that so poorly ignores "Show dont tell" but still can't tell anything. Awful in almost every regard. Art is beautiful tho and has some of the most quality drawn scenes in all of anime
Rated 17 Aug 2021
5
93rd
... God damn.
Rated 03 Dec 2021
88
86th
If the series is about realizing you have the strength within you to recover from absolute emotional breakdown, the movie is about confronting the mountain of emotional labor that comes next. It's rough and violent and confusing and has some of the same "was that really necessary" sexual content the series had, but it's definitely worthwhile if you can engage with the material on its level.
Rated 12 Jan 2022
59
6th
Dramatic and memorable in its visceral insanity, but still some of the most hare-brained nonsense ever put to paper.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
50
28th
VERY odd. I got into the movie mocking it. Some scenes were cool though.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
89
27th
The finale to the popular anime series. Much ado about death, rebirth and human bonds.
Rated 21 Jan 2009
60
46th
I fell asleep during this, despite hanging out to see it
Rated 12 Feb 2009
88
77th
Years ahead of its time.
Rated 27 Feb 2009
55
24th
I saw this a long time ago. It was silly and overly complicated without reason, but so was the show as I remember so that's fitting I guess.
Rated 12 Jun 2009
50
21st
Over sold
Rated 18 Aug 2009
5
0th
Amazing animation but terrible painful "story" if you coudl call it a story. Everyone always says how amazing this is, but I think most peopel are just cought up in the hype/disturbing images. Honestly this show sucked.
Rated 23 Oct 2009
90
94th
què decir.. todo un viaje psicotròpico con baja autoestima.
Rated 24 Jun 2010
95
96th
For the record, I hold the series as a whole in even higher regard than I scored this film.
Rated 06 Feb 2011
7
70th
Without knowledge of the entire series, there's no point in watching this.
Rated 01 Mar 2011
85
52nd
Anything that involves souls merging into a giant naked chick is a-okay to me.
Rated 11 Oct 2011
80
52nd
Not as amazing as I wanted it to be but it's a good ending to the series and makes up for terrible one the original anime had.
Rated 12 Feb 2012
10
0th
Best anime movie ever made.
Rated 08 May 2012
58
63rd
Movie depends on watching the TV-series first, and is the ending Anno wanted but was unable to fund with episodes 25 and 26. In the end just an overrated alternate ending to an overrated show.
Rated 13 Jan 2013
81
68th
81.000
Rated 14 Jan 2013
90
79th
One of my favorite animated movies. The plot makes no sense, even with the context the series provides, but the visuals are astoundingly beautiful and it hits some surprising emotional highs.
Rated 04 Mar 2013
88
91st
While being a very powerful movie The End of Evangelion is also very flawed and it tries too hard to impact its viewers, which makes it feel a bit weaker than the author's original intention.
Rated 04 Jul 2013
80
63rd
After all that bonkers (that for every question it answers about the show it opens up five more), this film delivers my favourite last line from any film. UPDATE: Made up of two 45 min episodes, the first of which feels real separate from the series, with characters acting out of character, and then dying suddenly. However, the second ep is an absolute stunner of animation, symbolism, and the stream of consciousness the series developed in its last couple of episodes.
Rated 01 Feb 2014
48
57th
Great film for what it is. Symbolism and philosophies are overdone to an extreme unfortunately, and many times I can't help but feel a sense of pretentiousness.
Rated 06 Oct 2015
90
88th
Definitely better than the ending of the series. I loved Hideaki Ano's depiction of depression and role of human interaction in it. It really shows itself as a great expression of an intense experience of mental collapse. Explanation of AT field was also really nice.
Rated 01 Mar 2016
77
74th
I'm going to try to ignore the last 10~15 minutes. The first half was pretty fantastic and intense and the second half I had completely mixed feelings on.
Rated 22 Aug 2016
75
74th
I have no idea what the $%^@ I watched still.
Rated 24 Jan 2018
80
81st
Fantastic climax for some of the most complex characters in anime history. Fixes the anime's awkward ending and then some.
Rated 07 Mar 2018
50
20th
Prefer the TV ending a lot but definitely need to rewatch this one eventually. Mitsuo Iso come back
Rated 10 May 2018
100
99th
My favourite film. Uses its fantastical genre elements as psychological metaphor, allowing its characters' interior struggles to play out on the largest possible stage and lending them the immense weight they deserve. Life-changingly powerful.
Rated 09 Jul 2018
65
39th
after this i realized i messed up not watching eps 25+26. but i'm glad cuz those are just the original and worse ending. this woulda been a 63 if it wasnt so weird, leading me to google explanations lool. but this, and especially 25 and 26 go too far with the perverted shit. i also wish there was better writing with nicer set up and a more logical epiphany for shinji. cuz hes just a stupid bitch 99% of the time and then right at the end outta nowhere hes like SIKE. theloreiheardonytreallycool
Rated 11 Jan 2019
60
47th
Exciting ending to a nice series.
Rated 14 Jun 2019
84
83rd
It probably wasn't smart to watch this without watching the series first, but it was still pretty awesome, if quite hard to understand.
Rated 10 Aug 2019
85
88th
Fire walk with mEvangelion.
Rated 03 Sep 2019
70
85th
I could watch this all day. But with some suitable music playing so I don't have to listen to the dialogue nonsense.
Rated 26 Sep 2019
75
60th
Review for both the series and movie. Its was good, but not as great as I expected on its reputation as one of the best animes ever. The first 16 episodes are pretty standard. After episode 16 it gets better and more philosophical and introspective. But still the characters aren't that well-rounded and developed to emotional hit me and the philosophical musing not that interesting and insightful to blow me away.
Rated 10 Oct 2019
67
51st
Very flawed, even more so than the preceding series. On principle, I hate that this rewrites and even directly contradicts the ending of the series (regardless of quality). Beyond that, the narrative is straight up incomprehensible at times - which is especially inexcusable in the narrative-driven first half. Still, Evangelion is its characters and this movie does exercise them in engaging ways. It could have been better, but it's still a good ride that goes in a very interesting direction.
Rated 09 Dec 2019
78
78th
Yes, it's the end of a TV show released as a movie. It is also one of the most batshit insane things I have ever seen, throwing all caution to the wind to the point where the image of a christ-robot piercing the eye of a giant naked God is merely the midpoint. It's simultaneously incredible AND frustrating to watch a show this high-concept disregard the plot to instead fully focus on the characters' psychology. Not even the end of the world can cure this teenage boy's self-loathing.
Rated 27 Feb 2020
90
79th
haha yeah that happened
Rated 06 Oct 2020
84
87th
A pummelling depiction of the apocalypse that doesn't pull a single punch. Truly, some of the most creative, bizarre, and outright lurid animation ever put to film -- though you may not fully grasp everything happening, the phantasmagoria of emotionally devastating imagery is wont to stick with you until the end of time. A metaphysical mindbender with the power to clasp your heart and wring it dry.
Rated 18 Oct 2020
65
40th
Alternative title: I Have No Waifu and I Must Kawaii Desu
Rated 10 Dec 2020
90
96th
Beyond description.
Rated 20 Mar 2021
59
14th
Overwrought. The first half trades away charm for nonstop action. The second half gets lost in pseudo-philosophical drivel. The original series ending is better.
Rated 19 Oct 2021
88
80th
"Death is not the answer!" "Death will be bestowed upon you"
Rated 26 Oct 2021
81
91st
Shinji you're goddamn useless but I love you that way.
Rated 03 Jan 2022
9
95th
Just something I have to bask in the sheer audacity of. The writing and character flaws melt away in how incredible this frequently looks and uncaring it is to make anything but a masterpiece of animation and scale.
Rated 02 Feb 2022
100
99th
The greatest of all time.
Rated 20 Jul 2022
5
91st
the rosetta stone to my weirdness
Rated 11 Jul 2023
54
13th
Like its predecessor, this is an attractively animated and well-detailed example of something that I’m just not on the right wavelength for – though the storytelling this time feels more flat and ponderously literal than in the previous chapter; there’s not as much frenetic action, but the action that’s here is paradoxically more difficult to follow, especially the wallow in philosophical malaise that more or less defines the second half.
Rated 26 Feb 2024
62
45th
So, Hideaki, what I'm hearing is that you're depressed. I have a feeling your liking for this will depend largely on a) how much you hated the ending of the series, b) how much you're sick of Shinji's whining, and c) how much you're willing to invest in the messy story and its mix-and-match symbolism. There are some really strong moments, I love the visuals and just how insane it's willing to go, but I still wish the whole story could have had one big rewrite.

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