What a waste of my time!!!

Sadly Over-hyped

Good concept, poorly executed.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Few films make into my collection, films like NEIGHBORS starring John Belushi, Blue Velvet starring Dennis Hopper, MOTHER starring Jennifer Lawrence, the original BLADE RUNNER. SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, DREAMS by Akira Kurosawa, etc. Each of these has something special, out of the box, so to speak. Each good film of this sort is like a Parable. TERMINAL starring Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg, Mike Myers, will be one of them. I must bow down in respect and appreciation to Director and writer Vaughn Stein. Simon Pegg and Mike Myers did their best serious roles in this film. Again I must add, this movie is not for everyone. If you like simple action, comedy and just pure entertainment, you may not like this. It is a film for those who love to think and analyze the meanings, messages and symbolisms. This film has a lesson which becomes clear at the end. See if you can guess what it is. The next section below is a spoiler, don't scroll down if you don't like spoilers. watch it first then come back and read the rest of this below. Warning spoiler: My interpretation: This is about "karma" and how people in power abuse the innocent and how the guilty MUST be held accountable The "Terminal" symbolizes the place of judgement at the end of your life on this earth. The hole or pit is "hell" for those found guilty. There is a lot of other symbolism that would take too long here to get into. See if you can find it.

The way I see it, this film is an attempt to combine the icy cool bravado and mistique of a classic Film Noir with the understated dark humor the likes of which the Brits often enjoy. These are two very incongruous elements - traditionally noir might take some light-hearted or blasé turns, but it's not trying for laughs. It's not funny at all, really. But this film IS funny. Not laugh-a-minute hilarious, but darkly funny and occasionally viciously playful. I understand why many responded poorly to it. I don't blame them, in the end. But I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's worth a try, if you're already considering it. But it's not for everyone.It reminded me of Femme Fatale. One thing wearing another thing's skin.

I could only see what this movie was trying to be, not what it was. A mix of Jim Jarmusch circa Mystery Train, mixed with David Lynch circa Wild at Heart, mixed with Chungking Express, mixed with Delicatessen. What did it lack?: A decent soundtrack (the hallmark of any great movie), truly beguiling, cool, mysterious characters (this ensemble is cut from different cloth), trite uninteresting cinematography (filming the same set with the camera 30 degrees sideways and boring lighting isn't good enough on its own), weak narrative to make up for other failings - you might say Mystery Train had little narrative - but it was totally cool, the real deal. So the overall atmosphere is stagey, no sense of expanse, limited sets, overacted in voice and expression as if broadcasting to a live audience. I found myself looking away at the cringeworthy performances, as if it would embarrass the actors if they knew I'd seen it - I don't blame them completely, any actor can be made to look bad after a poor edit of insufficient material: but they all look and sound pretty stupid. Maybe I'm old, but I've seen better, original cool; this ain't it.

Nothing like a movie that gives you no reason to care about any of its characters until the very end-simply because it has to protect the big reveal (which half of said reveal was a given)...