The World's End (2013)

Plot
Gary King, a middle-aged alcoholic, tracks down his estranged schoolfriends and persuades them to complete "the Golden Mile", a pub crawl encompassing the 12 pubs of their hometown of Newton Haven. The group attempted the crawl as teenagers, but failed to reach the final pub, The World's End.

Gary arrives in Newton Haven with friends Peter, Oliver, Steven, and Andy. The group is briefly joined for a drink by Oliver's sister Sam, whose affections Gary and Steven fought over in school. In the toilets of the fourth pub, Gary picks a fight with a teenager and knocks his head off, exposing him as an android. Gary's friends join him and fight more androids, whom they refer to as "blanks".

Several pubs later, the group runs into Sam again. After Gary saves her from twin androids impersonating her friends, she is convinced of the androids' invasion. At The Mermaid, androids impersonating attractive girls from their youth attempt to seduce the men. At the next pub, Guy Shepherd, their old schoolteacher, encourages them to accept their fate and be replaced by androids. Andy realises that Oliver has been replaced with an android. Another fight breaks out and the group scatters.

Once reunited, the four remaining friends accuse each other of having been replaced by androids, but prove their humanity. The androids close in on the group and capture Peter, but Gary is determined to finish the pub crawl. After having a drink at the other two pubs along the way, he runs towards the final pub, the World's End. Andy abandons Steven and chases Gary through the streets.

At the World's End, Andy confronts Gary. In the quarrel, Andy realises that Gary attempted suicide in the years since school. As he tries to stop Gary from drawing his final pint, they discover a hidden chamber and are reunited with Steven. A disembodied alien entity, the Network, reveals that the limited android invasion has been responsible for all of humanity's advances in telecommunications in recent decades, bringing humanity closer together as a first step to joining the galaxy's community of planets. The Network offers the men the chance to contribute to Earth joining the galactic community, even offering them eternal youth by becoming androids, but they refuse. Exasperated, the Network abandons the invasion. Sam arrives to drive the group out of Newton Haven as it self-destructs.

Some time later, Andy recounts this story around a campfire in the ruins of London. The destruction of Newton Haven triggered a worldwide electro-magnetic pulse that wiped out modern technology and set humanity back to the Dark Ages. The remaining androids have reactivated and are mistrusted by surviving humans. Andy's marriage has recovered, Steven is in a relationship with Sam, and android versions of Peter and Oliver have returned to a semblance of their former lives. In the ruins of Newton Haven, the now-sober Gary enters a pub with the younger android versions of his friends and orders five glasses of water. When the bartender refuses to serve androids, Gary draws a sword and leads his android friends into a brawl.

Release: August 2013
Director: Edgar Wright
Language: English
More Info: IMDb

Cast: Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine, David Bradley, Julian Seager, John Duggan, Thomas Law, Zachary Bailess, Gabriel Constantin, Adam Prickett, Paul Kennington, Mark Fox