Termius review11/3/2022 ![]() ![]() Bottom line: I wish the film would have been more worked on. Big Hollywood films do that, so why no them, eh? Because you get people upset, as many comments on this site show. Almost all high end scenes are in the trailer, that is. TERMIUS REVIEW MOVIEI think the worst sin the producers of this film committed is that they made a very intriguing trailer that far outshined the movie itself. It was an average movie, but one of those that has enough good things to offset some minor bad things, like some sluggishness of the script and some mediocre acting. I have to say that the negative reaction of some of the other commenters is not warranted. It is a slow story, gloomy, antiwar and anti rampant Americanism. It has to do a lot with how people think and feel and why they do what they do and how it affects the world entire. The basis of the plot is revealed early on and from there it's all about what happens around that central point. You need to be in the mood to watch this. There are numerous edge of your seat moments here, rolling all the way to an explosive climax, and in the end that's what counts. ![]() The sci-fi itself is a very usual juxtaposition, and thus the tension and heightened interest. TERMIUS REVIEW FULLSo often these days I get the feeling that low budget sci-fi movies have not been given enough time to really iron out all the wrinkles and really develop full potential prior to being produced. To my mind what's produced is very good, but perhaps could have been better. I have to admit that it's hard to criticise such an aspect when the entire thrust of the story depends on it. I'm not complaining of its scale in the sense of cgi, but I thought it required more expression, each stage could have been given just a tad more impact. It seems to have the attention to detail of a big budget production that you'd expect in regard to the actors, all of whom deliver feisty and emotional performances, and yet the sci-fi aspect is conspiratorial, somewhat rushed and far less impressive. This is thus almost a thriller more than a sci-fi film. There are three streams of tension here, each building momentum. Having said that, Terminus is still more about characters with their own problems themselves rather than characters reacting to something bigger than themselves. Too often in such movies the background end of days is only attended to in the beginning or sparsely thereafter, which stifles the sense of threat and forces the viewer to watch events unfold as if such gravity was a much lesser part of unfolding drama. It's refreshing to see an approaching apocalypse movie devoting serious attention to external forces. It puts a small Mid-Western town on edge, full of macho guys and recently returned veterans with terrible injuries. This epic is well documented and reflected throughout the movie by numerous background television reports and moving scenes of struggle, and is something brilliantly done. It takes place in a not too distant future where a huge war/intervention in the East is draining American lives and the economy. Terminus is a movie about loss and relationships. ![]()
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