The Terminal List

2022 - 7 - 1

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The Terminal List season 1, episode 1 recap - the premiere explained (Ready Steady Cut)

This recap of the Amazon original series The Terminal List season 1, episode 1, "The Engram," contains spoilers. Access the recaps, reviews, and news for.

He pulls his gun, and when he pulls the door of the car open, it is Katie, the reporter he sent the email message to. Reece calls the cops to go to his home as he races there. His superiors look at him like he is crazy, and when he is walked out, his commander tells him that Boozer shot himself with a nine-millimeter. The commander falls asleep during his CT scan, and when he calls for the doctor, he is met by two hooded masked men. An example of this is holding a plate of cinnamon rolls fresh out of the oven, and it takes him five seconds to realize the searing pain from the hot tray. The Secretary of Defense (Jeanne Tripplehorn) hands out a baker’s dozen Silver Crosses that day, and she awards him the Navy Cross. As he drives home, he sees a grey car following him. Meanwhile, he tells him if Reece ever feels like something is off with him, to call him right away. Reece wants to stay behind to get all his boys off the coast but is told he is the last one. He was one of Reece’s men, who was the one “freaking” out that evening. Reece has a meeting and claims that this was a setup. The Terminal List starts with James Reece (Chris Pratt) smashing the SEAL pin of a fallen special forces soldier into a coffin. Reece is prepping his team for a mission to capture a chemical weapons terrorist named Kahani. Reece leads his team on an underwater mission to infiltrate a facility through underground sewer lines.

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The Terminal List review – Chris Pratt's Amazon action series is ... (The Guardian)

The star makes for a listless lead in a dated and drably made eight-part military thriller that offers little intrigue or excitement.

There’s little of interest for anyone else to do, from a mostly unconvincing Constance Wu as an exposition-spouting journalist to a cartoonishly evil Jai Courtney as a big tech baddie to Taylor Kitsch slumming it as a quippy soldier pal to a bizarrely thankless role for the wonderful Riley Keough on wife duty. But it’s familiar to a fault, a tired and tiring series unfurling on Independence Day weekend for those looking for a low-stakes post-barbecue watch, a slab of barely heated red meat that’s all extremely hard-to-chew gristle. In a recent interview, Pratt, who on the same press tour has shown understandable annoyance over Twitter voting him “the worst of the Chrises”, revealed that the allure of a return to television was the ability to see a story that would have felt rushed and shallow at 90 minutes get the expansive eight-hour treatment, allowing ancillary characters depth and development.

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What Time Will Chris Pratt's 'The Terminal List' Be on Amazon? (Decider)

WHEN IS THE TERMINAL LIST RELEASE DATE? The new series is scheduled to premiere Friday, July 1 on Prime Video. HOW MANY EPISODES ARE IN SEASON 1 OF THE TERMINAL ...

However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life, but the lives of those he loves.” Also starring Taylor Kitsch, Constance Wu, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Riley Keough, the new series is about to drop on Prime Video. Per Amazon, “Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. But if it were a real series, I like to think that it’d star Don Cheadle as a hard-drinking private investigator who has a soft spot for the underdog.

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'The Terminal List' Is a Military Vanity Project for a Charisma-Free ... (Variety)

On Amazon Prime Video's grim new series, Chris Pratt vows revenge on his enemies, and takes it by force.

Perhaps the most revealing sequence in “The Terminal List” is one in which chaotic violence breaks out in the streets of San Francisco, the consequence for many civilians of being caught between men who want to play at war. Reece’s story is baleful, and it’s made clear to us that he’s fighting the establishment as much as he’s fighting for revenge, but if this series were an op to desensitize us against military violence, it couldn’t have been made more effectively. (What a shame that when Wu and Jeanne Tripplehorn — two performers of intuitive warmth and snappy cleverness — share scenes together, it’s within the clumsily written context of a reporter reading the Secretary of Defense the riot act.) And Taylor Kitsch, playing Reece’s best friend, is badly underused, if only because his sad eyes communicate the real cost of war. (Perhaps on film, one or two kills might have had to be excised — and this project clearly measures its success on body count.) Adapted from a Jack Carr novel, “The Terminal List” is executive produced by Pratt himself, among others, and it’s a striking sort of vanity project. In his new Amazon series “ The Terminal List,” actor Chris Pratt is built like a brick wall, and has about half as much charisma. This is a dour, miserable sit, one that would be tough to take as a two-hour film, and has been inexplicably ‘roided up to eight hours.

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Prime Video's The Terminal List is an Alpha Male Cry for Help | TV ... (Roger Ebert)

A review of the new Prime Video series The Terminal List, premiering on July 1.

But “The Terminal List” is gratuitous with a dead-serious face, one that is introduced as being unstable before its accompanying body is then treated like our instrument of truth. In action movie speak, it’s “Rambo: First Blood” that thinks like “Rambo: First Blood Part II.” And because “Rambo: First Blood” is not what cemented Rambo’s pop culture status, you can imagine what a big hit “The Terminal List” is bound to become, especially for anyone looking to identify with Reece. “The Terminal List” gets its name from a list that Reece creates on the back of his dead kid’s drawing, with new names added and crossed off, sometimes with blood. “The Terminal List” exists well within the Prime Video collection of these book-approved JR heroes protecting America's truth and values, as seen with Jack Reacher and Jack Ryan. But this does not even feign to have the composure of those stories, instead embracing every massive gut-punching beat and conspiracy that it can for their sensations, and then applying the soothing nature of Reece's Navy SEAL training to make it all better. Based on the novel by Jack Carr, with that doozy of a pilot directed by Antoine Fuqua, “The Terminal List” more or less takes place within the mind of someone who is shown to not be right in the head. The only man who survives with Reece is his buddy Boozer, who flies back with Reece and then dies days later of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Renewed or Cancelled – will there be a season 2 of The Terminal ... (Ready Steady Cut)

— when I read that there are five books in the James Reece series by Jack Carr. The series has some flaws, some standard genre tropes, and can be darker than ...

He is also coming off a remarkable commercial success with Jurassic World Dominion. Considering Pratt’s history in franchise blockbusters like Guardians of the Galaxy and the Jurassic World series, shouldn’t this be a foregone conclusion? The Terminal List is a highly anticipated series with a lot of buzz around it, and Chris Pratt is a massive star in his prime. I thought for sure The Terminal List would be a limited series based on the plot.

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The Terminal List: Chris Pratt's deeply disappointing return to the ... (Stuff.co.nz)

REVIEW: While not without its charms, this military thriller is not only hampered by predictable plotting, it also exposes its star's acting limitations.

“I don’t know if it’s the Iranians or the Russians, but they’ve altered our voices, or done a deep fake,” he rages. And he appears to struggle with all three. And if that wasn’t enough trauma, the only other survivor, Ernest “Boozer” Vickers (Jared Shaw) is found dead almost immediately after the pair return home.

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Meet the cast of The Terminal List, the new Prime Video thriller (Radio Times)

Chris Pratt leads the cast for the new Amazon Prime Video series – and is joined by the likes of Taylor Kitsch, Constance Wu, and Jeanne Tripplehorn.

What else has Jai Courtney been in? What else has Arlo Mertz been in? What else has Patrick Schwarzenegger been in? What else has Riley Keough been in? What else has Jeanne Tripplehorn been in? What else has Taylor Kitsch been in?

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New on Amazon Prime Video: 'Suzhal', 'The Terminal List', and more (The Hindu)

The film also stars Manushi Chillar, Sanjay Dutt, Sonu Sood, Manav Vij, Ashutosh Rana, and Sakshi Tanwar. The Terminal List (1st July). After his entire platoon ...

Anastasia (Dakota Johnson) must confront the women who came before her with their rage and envy while Christian (Jamie Dornan) battles his inner demons. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th. Set against the festival of Mayaana Kollai (Looting the Grave), the myth collides with the real in this layered investigative drama as deeply buried secrets surface to haunt the living.

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The Terminal List: Amazon Prime Video release date, trailer, and ... (NationalWorld)

The series is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Jack Carr, a former Navy SEAL himself.

The Terminal List is eight episodes in total, each around an hour in length. Otherwise, if you’ve liked Pratt in other military roles - think closer to his part in Zero Dark Thirty, rather than Jurassic World or Guardians of the Galaxy - this seems like a safe bet too. It was written by Jack Carr, himself a former Navy SEAL, and was published in 2018. Chris Pratt stars as James Reece, a Navy SEAL with memory problems. As new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.” - Reece takes steps to avenge them, crossing names off his terminal list one by one.

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The Terminal List Is a Muddled Mess of an Action Thriller (PRIMETIMER)

Over the past few years, Amazon Prime Video has solidified its place as the streaming destination for expensive action thrillers, with The Boys, ...

With its in-your-face violence, far-reaching conspiracy, and holiday weekend release, The Terminal List goes to great lengths to establish itself as a tentpole thriller. The Terminal List’s overall blandness is particularly disappointing given its impressive star power in front of and behind the camera. Katie is also one of the few characters who gets something approximating a backstory, alhough it’s not fully fleshed out until the penultimate episode: when she was a child, her father took a stand against the Chinese Communist Party and paid the ultimate price, an experience that taught her the importance of speaking truth to power. The Terminal List’s aversion to character development extends beyond its supporting players; Reece’s interiority is largely left unexplored, and Pratt's gruff performance yields little additional insight. Unfortunately this lesson seems to have escaped the team behind The Terminal List, Prime Video’s latest big budget drama (and the streamer’s answer this July 4th weekend to Netflix's blockbuster release of Stranger Things Season 4, Volume 2). Based on the novel of the same name by Jack Carr, The Terminal List stars Chris Pratt as James Reece, a Navy SEAL whose entire platoon is ambushed during a covert mission. As action thrillers go, The Terminal List is about as generic as they come — it’s notably similar to Michael B. Jordan’s Without Remorse, Amazon’s film adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel — and viewers hoping for a violent, fast-paced drama won’t be disappointed.

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The Terminal List: Limited Series Review - IGN (IGN)

This is a non-spoiler review for all eight episodes of The Terminal List, which premieres Friday, July 1 on Amazon Prime Video.

Having worked with Pratt on 2016's Magnificent Seven remake, and also helmed soldier potboilers Shooter and Tears of the Sun, Fuqua knows how to do clear, blunt, and direct action and the fact that The Terminal List sticks to its reckoning-driven guns is a boon for simplicity's sake. This odyssey gives Reece, and the story, a series of kills that allows for action, intrigue, and for Reece's quest to become more desperate and foreboding. The first two episodes lean heavily into Reece -- back on U.S. soil after a disastrous op leaves everyone on his team KIA except him -- being a very disturbed and unreliable narrator. Antoine Fuqua, of Training Day and Equalizer films fame, executive produces along with Pratt and showrunner David DiGilio and also directs the first episode. Because Pratt is naturally charismatic -- a trait which he's chosen, for whatever reason, to curtail in recent years (even progressively throughout the Jurassic World trilogy) -- protagonist James Reece shines through with more life and light than you'd usually find in a character who's basically Frank Castle. That being said, it's glaringly obvious that Pratt's strengths are not on full display here, despite him being able to swap in for a gung-ho John Rambo type. It also kind of draws things out past the point of being engaging as you may go snow blind amidst the single-minded savagery.

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'The Terminal List' review: Chris Pratt stars in a dead-end Amazon ... (CNN)

Amazon has flexed its muscles with military-style action series (see "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" and "Reacher"), but "The Terminal List" adds a numbingly ...

That road doesn't exactly follow a straight path, more like a dotted one, with occasional detours to go kill people who emerge as responsible for or complicit in the plot. Still, with so many superior options leaving this dead-end series off your "watch" list won't amount to missing much. Adapted from a novel by Jack Carr, the series features Pratt as James Reece, a hard-driving Navy SEAL whose platoon is ambushed and decimated during a covert mission.

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'Terminal List': Chris Pratt strikes back in poisonous thriller (Los Angeles Times)

Based on a novel by retired Navy SEAL Jack Carr, “The Terminal List,” premiering Friday on Prime Video, stars Chris Pratt — in grim-visaged, square-jawed, ...

(“It would be a mistake to push a man to violence if violence is what he has dedicated his life to perfecting,” says Reece, a man without second thoughts.) Still, we are meant to side with him, more or less uncritically — it’s the only way to make it through this journey — and it helps, of course, that the people on his hit list are generally unsympathetic, when not downright disgusting. (“It’s time you let justice take it from here.” “I am justice.”) He’s set on leaving his enemies dead, face to face if possible, dispatching them through a variety of methods in order to keep things from getting too repetitious. Reece, who has additional reasons to be angry I won’t enumerate — but which are common to the genre — becomes a ghost, both to kill anyone who might be coming for him, and everyone he deems responsible for his situation. With a pilot directed by Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day,” “The Guilty”), production values are high; the action scenes are well staged. There isn’t much to say in detail that doesn’t constitute a spoiler, but Carr and his adapters enlist an unusually wide array of players to share the blame. Based on a novel by retired Navy SEAL Jack Carr, “The Terminal List,” premiering Friday on Prime Video, stars Chris Pratt — in grim-visaged, square-jawed, gravel-voiced mode — as Navy SEAL commander James Reece, a man with a mission and the guns to carry it out.

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The Terminal List on Amazon Prime Video: Everything you need to ... (Economic Times)

Amazon Prime Video released a new series called 'The Terminal List. This action-adventure series stars Chris Pratt. Its time to find out what the series is ...

The Terminal List is an 8-episode series based on a novel by the same name. Antoine Fuqua, the director, says that the series is a psychological action thriller that keeps viewers guessing whether it is accurate. The trailer features an overdose of action, complemented with shootouts, guns and bomb explosions. The author is Antoine Fuqua, the director, says that the series is a psychological action thriller that keeps viewers guessing whether it is accurate. The trailer features an overdose of action, complemented with shootouts, guns and bomb explosions.

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Chris Pratt's The Terminal List Is Quintessential Dad TV (Paste Magazine)

If you're looking for a 40-something male to be tough, action-oriented, charming, and hold a weapon with a smirk, Chris Pratt is your guy.

At one point he even triggers a rockslide and rides it to help him escape a group of SEALs. Basically, there’s a lot of belief suspension required when watching this series. The pacing and atmosphere of this series, while always dramatic, is so varied it’s like listening to a mix tape with country, rock, rap, reggae, and a couple of The Chipmunks holiday songs. Flashbacks to Reece’s family and former platoon are meant to provide backstory, but are told out of sequence and are so inconsistent they lack impact and proper context. Reece and his group are quickly led into a trap and his team is eliminated. His SEAL team has been tracking a Syrian chemical weapons specialist for years and they finally have reliable intel on how to capture him, or so they believe. Action forward and loaded with intrigue yet with significant flaws, the series remains enjoyable due to its star.

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The Terminal List: 7 Things to Know About Chris Pratt's Navy SEAL ... (Rotten Tomatoes)

Chris Pratt stars in Prime Video's psychological thriller "The Terminal List," an adaptation of Jack Carr's novel about a Navy SEAL who returns after a ...

“I think that, actually, those comparisons are welcome.” “Any time you step away from your number one on the call sheet, you need to land with actors and actresses who are number ones in their own right.” “And that’s what Jack Carr’s novel, and this show, does better, I think, than anything else before is it’s a look inside the warrior class,” DiGilio says. And I was stalking him a lot. “I track him a lot. (Photo by Prime Video) “Sometimes people, and writers in particular, can be a little lazy and use it as a crutch instead of really diving into it.” (His character, Carr says, should be noted as a prior enlisted SEAL sniper who was moving his way up to Troop Commander). (Photo by Prime Video) (Photo by Prime Video) “Maybe there’s a little Hollywood thing here there, but these guys went to every length … to do everything possible to keep this grounded in the foundation of the realities of modern combat.” (Photo by Prime Video)

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'The Terminal List' Cast & Character Guide: Who's Who in the Prime ... (Collider.com)

The Terminal List has quite the stacked cast with names like Chris Pratt, Constance Wu, and Taylor Kitsch. Here's who they're playing.

A junior FBI Agent, Deptul is a mother of two who would prefer not to ruffle feathers. Named on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017. She soon finds herself teaming up with Reece to seek the truth about what really transpired on his mission. James Reece is the main protagonist of the series, a Navy SEAL who returns home after an ill-fated covert mission where his entire team was wiped off in an ambush. While on board with the idea of Reece getting his revenge, he constantly prods him along the path of introspection. Fox maintains his strength amidst the surrounding upheavals. Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Donny Mitchell is the youngest member of Commander James Reece’s squad. Unassuming, yet efficient, she is about to get involved in the high-profile case involving Navy SEAL James Reece. Louder was a guest star in the superhero drama Watchmen where she played Ruth Williams. She has also appeared in the 5th season of The Originals and is popular for her performances in the action thriller Copshop, and The Tomorrow War where she also starred alongside Pratt. Kitsch has appeared in other films like John Carter, Battleship, Savages, Lone Survivor, The Grand Seduction, American Assassin, Only The Brave, and 21 Bridges. After new information comes to light, he smells foul play and embarks on a one-man revenge mission to bring to book those who conspired to compromise his life and that of his deceased colleagues. The San Francisco-born actor is popular for his portrayal of Secret Service agent Mike Ritter in Season 1 and 2 of the political drama Designated Survivor. He also played Deputy Sheriff Cane in Sons of Anarchy. His other movie credits include his appearance as a guest star in Season 7 and 8 of Arrow and playing Lt. TAO Cameron Burk in The Last Ship. LaMonica has appeared in Batwoman, The Flash, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Pratt’s real-life brother-in-law, Patrick is the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. Patrick played Glen in the romantic comedy-drama Stuck In Love, he has also supporting roles in Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. In 2018, he landed his first lead role as Charles Reed alongside Bella Thorne in the romantic drama film based on the Japanese film A Song to the Sun. His more recent works include playing Mitchell Wilson in the comedy-drama Moxie and starring as Todd Peterson in The Staircase.

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Chris Pratt picks military veterans for 'The Terminal List' (Military Times)

The team hired real special ops members to appear in a major combat scene and also employed former troops behind-the-scenes in a variety of roles.

He had questioned whether attempting a career in Hollywood was realistic. “They wake up and look for work to get done,” he said. “They fit great,” he said. Shaw was added as an associate producer and also has a role in the show. It’s very similar in a chain of command. When Reece returns home, he begins to question both his memories of what happened and the world around him.

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