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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75IGNIGNTerminal is an interesting revenge story that mostly works. There are a few missteps, namely a few wasted characters and a straight forward plot made needlessly complicated. Still, Vaughn Stein should be pleased with what’s here.
- 50The PlaylistLena WilsonThe PlaylistLena WilsonIt’s beautiful, if not brilliant, and (aside from a final act that drags on way too long) fun to watch. In the alternate universe where I don’t care about misogyny and I decided to watch this movie on mute, it’s probably one of the best things I’ve seen all year.
- 40Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayRobbie is fascinating to watch, as always. But in this case she's providing 100-watt star power to a tacky little table lamp.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreVeteran second unit director Vaughn Stein (“World War Z,” “Sherlock Holmes”) had access to talent and to people who could finance a film, and proves adept at managing a cohesive, distinct look and feel. But his inept story and fumbling efforts to connect the disparate threads of a tale no one cares about make his actors look bad.
- 30Village VoiceApril WolfeVillage VoiceApril WolfeCompounding the manic energy of the editing is dialogue that muses mostly on long-winded ideas that don’t lend themselves to any kind of visual representation.
- 25Slant MagazineJake ColeSlant MagazineJake ColeTerminal's actors are awkward and stiff in trying to project hard-boiled cool, and all while delivering lines that sound as if they had been passed multiple times through an online translation tool.
- 25The Film StageChristopher SchobertThe Film StageChristopher SchobertTerminal is destined to be forgotten. However, if the cast, the look, and the wacky storyline intrigue, it might be worth a viewing. While it’s far from the so-bad-its-good category, the few oddities contained within may delight a few curious audience members.
- 25IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichVaughn Stein’s Terminal takes a mess of dead tropes and Frankensteins them together into an crime saga that’s in desperate need of brains. And a soul. And a story.
- 25ConsequenceClint WorthingtonConsequenceClint WorthingtonDrawing from a host of late-nineties influences but doing nothing with them, Terminal is little more than a shallow exercise in dated crime movie pastiche.
- 20The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisFeaturing more twists than a 1960s dance marathon, Terminal is a flashy, hyperstylized bore.