Matt L
I think the writing is exceptional. There is philosophy, humor, gritty street talk, and more. Not quite Guess Who's Coming to Dinner but way more hits than misses.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
03/28/24
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William M
This movie kept my attention the whole time. I thought it was a genius storyline and found it fun to follow. The cinematography is AMAZING. My background is art and design so I really appreciate those things. I'm not sure I understand all the other reviews that say it's boring or a waste of good actors. I thought it was brilliant and could watch it several more times and appreciate something new each time. What do I know though, I don't watch movies for a living 😂
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
11/03/23
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Ola G
A young woman meets a mysterious employer in a confession booth and implores him to employ her as his sole contract killer. To prove her worth, she offers to eliminate his other contractors. In exchange for her efforts, she asks if he can find someone for her. Bill (Simon Pegg) is standing on a deserted train platform and is told by a limping janitor (Mike Myers) that no trains will be coming until 4:04 in the morning. The janitor suggests he wait in the 24-hour cafe. There, he converses with Annie (Margot Robbie), a waitress, who notices that he has a terminal disease, and is suicidal. She discusses various ways he can kill himself. The story shifts to three weeks earlier; Illing, a hitman, is captured by Annie, who is posing as a prostitute. He awakes to find himself handcuffed to a bed before Annie incapacitates and kills him. Mr. Franklyn, the employer, calls his two hitmen - Vince and Alfred - and orders them to pick up a briefcase from the lockers at the terminal. They take it to the cafe and find a pack of matches and an envelope of money. They wonder why Mr. Franklyn has called on them, and not Illing. The match pack is from a strip joint, where they find a dancer resembling the waitress Annie from earlier. She takes the envelope of money as payment for passing on information about the hit Mr. Franklyn wants them to do. She comes on strong to Alfred but is dismissive of Vince. The hitmen are told to wait in an apartment and to shoot a person in the window opposite when told. Vince is also secretly told via a phone call to then kill Alfred. The waitress tells Alfred that Vince will try to kill him, so Alfred should kill Vince once the hit is completed. Mr. Franklyn watches from his lair, with monitors displaying camera footage of the cafe and the hitmen's hideout...
Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus reads, "Worth seeking out for only the most hardcore of Margot Robbie completists, Terminal lives down to the medical definition of its title in dreadfully derivative fashion." Rolling Stone's Peter Travers panned the film, awarding zero stars, stating, "The title of this wretched Tarantino-meets-Blade Runner noir rip-off doubles as a diagnosis". Rex Reed of the New York Observer also awarded zero stars, calling the film "a turgid, pretentious, and incomprehensible existential joke." David Edelstein of Vulture gave a negative review, criticising the plot's focus, saying, "since the film doesn't establish a baseline of reality, it's hard to pick out a premise." David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a D, writing, "Vaughn Stein's Terminal takes a mess of dead tropes and Frankensteins them together into a crime saga that's in desperate need of brains. And a soul. And a story." Jacob Knight of Birth.Movies.Death. heavily criticised Stein's direction and wrote, "no amount of pretty pictures could save a script this abysmally written. Stein has penned scene after scene after scene of nasty people talking circles around one another, no character defined by anything beyond their comic book-ready aesthetic." Jeffrey M. Anderson of The San Francisco Examiner awarded the film two and a half stars out of four, describing the film as "mediocre", though praising Robbie's performance, writing, "Robbie is a bright one, and even though Terminal isn't much, it offers a chance to watch her shine." Clint Worthington of Consequence of Sound heavily criticised Stein's direction, calling the film a "waste of time" and "An entirely empty exercise in dated, exhausting hyper-stylized filmmaking." (via Wikipedia)
This utter neo-noir mess tries to channel Frank Miller, Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino, but fails in all directions. The scenestructure is all over the place, the plot, pacing, direction and narrative are just wishy washy and there´s no entertainment value whatsoever. To me Margot Robbie is wasted in her role. And aren´t we all tired of seeing Mike Myers doing another "weird" character? The film received generally negative reviews from critics, though some praised Robbie's performance and the visual style. It was also a box office bomb, grossing a mere $843,970. No need to see "Terminal".
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
06/05/23
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Giorgio G
It's a very slow story and wouldn't it be for Margot and Simon one would switch channels quite early. But as you have two excellent actors doing their thing one hangs on to the end. And the satisfaction actually does come at the very end, vingative, as one imagines, but the story dragged on for way too long without much tension to make this wait really worthwhile. A few hints, here and there, in earlier stages of the movie, might have made it a lot more interesting, hoping for a cool climax. The very end is explanatory, but surely not convincingly climatic. It just tries to explain to yourself why you have been watching minutes without much to say. Thus, I'd say, it's a 5/10 or less. One really does not need to watch it unless you are an extreme fan of Margot.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
03/14/23
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David C
This movie was EVERYTHING AND THEN SOME! I love Psychological Thrillers and this one was EXCEPTIONAL. I thoroughly enjoyed the plot and characters and the story line was SUPERB! I LOVE Alice In Wonderland and thought EveryThing was Spectacular. Margot Robbie is INCREDIBLE!!! ❤️
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
03/01/23
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k j
Worst acting I've ever seen
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
03/30/23
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