The World's End (2013)

The World's End rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.9/10· 310K votes

Rotten Tomatoes89%

Metacritic81%

TMDb6.81/10· 6K votes

With 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.9/10 on IMDb and 81/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The World's End

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

Cast of The World's End

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  Simon Pegg

  as Gary King

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  Nick Frost

  as Andrew Knightley

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  Paddy Considine

  as Steven Prince

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  Martin Freeman

  as Oliver Chamberlain

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  Eddie Marsan

  as Peter Page

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  Rosamund Pike

  as Sam Chamberlain

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  David Bradley

  as Basil

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  Pierce Brosnan

  as Guy Shepherd

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  Michael Smiley

  as Reverend Green

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  Darren Boyd

  as Shane Hawkins

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  Steve Oram

  as Motorcycle Policeman

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  Reece Shearsmith

  as Collaborator

The World's End facts

Budget

$20M

Box office

$46.1M

Our take on The World's End

Edgar Wright's 2013 action-comedy sends five middle-aged friends back to their hometown to finish the legendary pub crawl they abandoned two decades before, only to find themselves standing between humanity and extinction. Wright blends genuine science-fiction stakes with the loose, bickering camaraderie of men who never quite grew up, staging fights with the same rhythmic precision he brings to the punchlines. It rewards viewers who like their comedy fast, their friendships prickly and their apocalypses laced with regret about nostalgia and arrested development. If you enjoy sharply choreographed British humour that hides real melancholy beneath the beer and mayhem, this is an easy recommendation.