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There are some thing you think you’ll never see.  And for the most part, you never will.  This is generally a good thing, because they’re really outlandish, mind-altering things like chupacabras and sharks that can walk on land and Zach Galifianakis in an action movie.

Oh wait…that last one happened.  And it happened in the movie Anchor Bay sent me a copy of to review.  I’m talking about Operation: Endgame, and it’s going to be a huge pile of hilarious, comic action glee that will sometimes make you sorry you laughed.

Operation: Endgame follows a shadowy government organization operating out of The Factory, a facility where all the operatives are named after Tarot cards, and they work on false flag operations.  Misdirection, assorted mayhem, that sort of thing.  They work in two teams diametrically opposed to each other, to serve as an internal balance: Alpha and Omega.  And when one of them goes rogue and kills the guy overseeing The Factory, well, all hell’s about to break loose espionage-style.

After about a half hour of this, it struck me as nothing more than a spy movie shot in the style of Arrested Development but without a narrator.  Having Jeffrey Tambor around didn’t hurt, but it likely still would’ve struck me that way even without George Bluth running things.

After that point, however, Operation: Endgame will devolve into a bizarre series of killings, assorted lunacy and occasional dark humor.  Seriously, I’ve never spent so much time laughing in such close proximity to messy bludgeoning death.  But then, I’ve never seen clever jokes put so close to messy bludgeoning death, so it’s a real day of firsts.

Once again Anchor Bay has secured its place, as far as I’m concerned, of being about the only studio on Earth that will, with every release, more likely than not be good.  See, Operation: Endgame is wildly entertaining stuff, both in the action sense and in the comedy sense.  Granted, the comedy is often of the darkest variety and the action of the bloodsoaked, but it really delivers a punch regardless of the overall tone.

It’s funny, it’s exciting, it’s loads of fun and sometimes it will even make you deeply uncomfortable, and because of all this, because I had a great time watching this, I’m giving the Screenhead Ten Scale a crack over the head with a handy crowbar, laughing uproariously, and tossing this one a full-on ten out of ten.  It’s too funny and too exciting to be anything less than a great time, and great times deserve the best recommendation.

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