Not very good. Just because a movie deals with death in a supposedly funny manner, does not make it a black comedy. It would have to be a lot bleaker and MUCH MUCH MUCH funnier than THE END. It seems to want to be better than it is with Burt Reynolds trying mightily to be shockingly funny as a dying man with a death wish, but the movie is simply a waste of a lot of talent. People like Joanne Woodward, Sally Field, Robby Benson(!), and others pop up to act appalled at Reynolds predicament and his plan to knock himself off. Dom DeLuise (who has been very funny for Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder in a few films) is the wacky mental patient tasked with helping Reynolds. Someone told him that shrieking a lot and donning wild hair equals funny. It doesn't! Reynolds clearly thought of himself as a capable comic actor and from time to time (THE LONGEST YARD, SEMI-TOUGH), he succeeded, but mostly his comedies were lame-brained train wrecks that managed to make tons of money...where THE END falls is anyone's guess. Also with Pat O'Brien and Myrna Loy!