![]() Looking for a train to throw himself under. Simon Pegg shows up as a suicidal professor, -Rolling StoneĪ professorial weenie dressed like Vincent Van Gogh in a red-flecked beard and a large, woolen overcoat, – TheWrap Who puts out contracts anonymously via voice-modulated phone calls, briefcases stashed in train terminal storage lockers and other tricks you may be able to imagine for yourself. plans to make two hit men kill one another in order that she might work for a Mr. Somewhere above, an unseen voyeur watches on banks of television screens, his disembodied voice adding another layer of cringeworthy idiocy. “Rape away!” she crows to him in another scene. “Naughty? As in spank me gently, I’ve been a naughty girl?” In her first ever conversation with Billy, he blithely throws out the word “naughty.” Annie simpers, skulking toward the diner counter. – Patriot Ledger Īnnie, cigarette in hand, makes a deal with a priest - or just a raspy, demon-voiced man sitting in the padre’s side of the confessional. – Patriot LedgerĪnnie seductively lures presupposed stupid men into her tangled web offering carnal goodies, then beating them to the thrust with her own phallic instruments. ![]() ![]() No chump is her match, nor do you expect them to be. Glowing green eyes, blinding teeth and strutting legs, – NY TimesĪnnie is pursuing a larger mission only she can envision, – Chicago Sun-TimesĪs well as anything else that will entrap the men who fall into her web. …a half-naked pole dancer with green lips in a strip joint called the Blonde Rabbit. – Minneapolis Star-TribuneĪnnie moonlights as a stripper, – RollingStone It’s all shadowy streets and vibrant skewed neon, a very naughty place just by the look of it. Serving sticky buns to a tubercular chain-smoking professor. That looks and feels like the soundstage it is, – Rolling StoneĪ waitress at a diner called End of the Line, – RollingStone …within an enclosed urban area known as the Precinct, – Boston Herald The whole thing takes place in a deserted train station, hence the title Terminal. ![]() Here we go… (the following descriptions all come from published reviews of Terminal): With Terminal in particular, which I gather combines references to Pulp Fiction and Alice and Wonderland (“a script that plays like something Quentin Tarantino upchucked after watching Blade Runner while reading Alice in Wonderland and ingesting too many hallucinogens,” according to Rolling Stone), it’s interesting to note that almost every review, either deliberately or through osmosis, sounds like a hard boiled detective novel. The way film critics revert to exposition when they’re bored has always intrigued me. In the hopes of simply understanding this film, which seems almost like it was deliberately hidden, I returned to my old standby feature, Plot Recreated With Reviews, in which we attempt to piece together an entire movie using nothing but expository quotes from (usually scathing) reviews. Robbie also produced, through her production company, Luck圜hap Entertainment, and you wonder if the chance to be the star would be as big a motivating factor now as it was when Terminal was shot 2016, before Suicide Squad and I, Tonya, and Robbie’s upcoming role as Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino’s Manson Family movie. Writing for the Observer, crazy old Rex Reed said it was “frankly, unwatchable.”ĭavid Edelstein for Vulture called it “Crayola noir.” Though it should be said, Terminal did have its share of defenders, from Richard Roeper, who said it had “never with a dull moment,” and Colin Covert from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, who seemed genuinely taken with it: “Every moment of Terminal engages the eye, and - unexpectedly - the mind.” Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave Terminal zero stars, calling it “one of the worst movies ever made.” Terminal, a debut feature from writer/director Vaughn Stein, a veteran assistant director and second unit director, seemed to fly well under the radar, and judging by the reviews it received, there was good reason for that. It’s not even in the site’s database, as the distributor (RLJE Films) isn’t reporting box office numbers. I asked Brad Brevet, editor of, a website that tracks movie releases, about it, and he hadn’t heard of it. If you haven’t heard of Terminal, you’re not alone. Did you know a movie starring Margot Robbie and Simon Pegg came out this weekend? A movie that stars Robbie and Pegg and Mike Myers, in his only live-action movie appearance of the last eight years (“ playing one of the sickest sickos in recent memory”)?
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