Terminal is a 2018 neo-noir thriller film writt and directed by Vaughn Stein. The film stars Margot Robbie alongside an semble cast, featuring Simon Pegg, Dexter Fletcher, Max Irons, and Mike Myers. The plot follows the intertwining lives of two assassins, a fatally ill teacher, a custodian, and a waitress, all of whom become part of a murderous plan.
The film is an international co-production betwe Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Hong Kong, and the United States. Principal photography took place in Budapest, Hungary during May 2016.
Terminal was released in North America on 11 May 2018, by RLJE Films. The film premiered in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2018 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of the American Dreams Strand. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 6 July 2018 by Arrow Films. The film received gerally negative reviews from critics, who criticized the plot, narrative, pacing, and direction, though some praised Robbie's performance and the visual style. It was also a box office bomb, grossing a mere $843, 970.
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A young woman meets a mysterious employer in a confession booth and implores him to employ her as his sole contract killer. To prove her worth, she offers to eliminate his other contractors. In exchange for her efforts, she asks if he can find someone for her. Bill is standing on a deserted train platform and is told by a limping janitor that no trains will be coming until 4:04 in the morning. The janitor suggests he wait in the 24-hour cafe. There, he converses with Annie, a waitress, who notices that he has a terminal disease, and is suicidal. She discusses various ways he can kill himself.
The story shifts to three weeks earlier; Illing, a hitman, is captured by Annie, who is posing as a prostitute. He awakes to find himself handcuffed to a bed before Annie incapacitates and kills him.
Mr. Franklyn, the employer, calls his two hitm - Vince and Alfred - and orders them to pick up a briefcase from the lockers at the terminal. They take it to the cafe and find a pack of matches and an velope of money. They wonder why Mr. Franklyn has called on them, and not Illing. The match pack is from a strip joint, where they find a dancer resembling the waitress Annie from earlier. She takes the velope of money as paymt for passing on information about the hit Mr. Franklyn wants them to do. She comes on strong to Alfred but is dismissive of Vince. The hitm are told to wait in an apartmt and to shoot a person in the window opposite wh told. Vince is also secretly told via a phone call to th kill Alfred. The waitress tells Alfred that Vince will try to kill him, so Alfred should kill Vince once the hit is completed. Mr. Franklyn watches from his lair, with monitors displaying camera footage of the cafe and the hitm's hideout.
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Back at the train terminal, the waitress takes Bill to an abandoned air shaft and tries to talk him into committing suicide. Although he described throwing himself down a deep, dark hole as his final act, he cannot jump. The waitress teases him, and Bill tells the waitress that she is a naughty girl. This triggers a memory from his days as a school teacher, where he had two girls in his class that he abused. The waitress reveals that she is one of those girls, and th she stabs Bill in the neck with his p and pushes him down the shaft. Meanwhile, Mr. Franklyn calls the hitm's apartmt and says that they should be ready to take the shot. Vince trains his sniper's rifle at the window across the courtyard but is surprised to find Annie in his crosshairs. Alfred pulls his gun on Vince and disarms him. Annie comes over and Alfred shoots Vince. Alfred and Annie leave the apartmt and run into the janitor, who is arriving to clean up the murder sce.
Back in the terminal, the waitress turns on Alfred, tells him that she is not infatuated with him, and shoots him dead. The janitor comes along to clean up the body. The waitress decides to help the janitor take the bodies to the top of the air shaft and drop them both into it. The janitor returns to the terminal and ters the janitor's closet, which is actually Mr. Franklyn's control cter. He is revealed to be Mr. Franklyn in disguise, removing his prosthetic bad teeth and fake latex skin. He stops limping and walks normally. There are dozs of attaché cases lined up for future jobs. As he leaves his closet, he is accosted by the waitress and her doppelgänger, revealed to be a set of twins, Annie and Bonnie.
The twins tie up Mr. Franklyn and describe how their mother died. She was being pursued by her partner, revealed to be Mr. Franklyn - a.k.a. Clinton Sharp - after she witnessed him murder someone and ran back to her flat to protect her twin girls. Mr. Franklyn poured petrol in her home, and set it on fire. The mother had time to push the girls out a brok window, but could not save herself. After that, the twins spt the rest of their childhood in an orphanage being molested by Bill. The twins tell Mr. Franklyn that he is their biological father and they are ready to exact their revge. They lobotomize him, finally kill him, th walk out of the terminal together.
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On 12 February 2016, it was announced that Margot Robbie would headline and produce a noir thriller writt and directed by Vaughn Stein, through her production company LuckyChap tertainmt.
Highland Film Group would be handling finance and introducing the project to international buyers in Berlin. Creative Artists Agcy would handle domestic distribution sales in the United States. David Barron of Beagle Pug Films was also attached to the project as a producer.
On 24 May 2016, Simon Pegg, Mike Myers, Max Irons and Dexter Fletcher joined the cast alongside Robbie. This film marks Mike Myers's first non-documtary film since 2012.
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By September 2016, post production was near completion and a rough cut was screed at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival for pottial international buyers.
Highland Film Group attded the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for selling distribution rights for the film. On 24 January 2018, RLJE Films acquired distribution rights in the United States.
Terminal received a limited theatrical release and was simultaneously released through video on demand in the United States on 11 May 2018 by RLJE Films.
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The film premiered in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2018 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of the American Dreams Strand.
It was released theatrically in limited theatres in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 6 July 2018 by Arrow Films. On 9 September 2016, the first official image of the film was released at the Toronto International Film Festival, featuring Robbie in character.
In the United Kingdom, it received a 15 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification for strong language, violce, suicide referces, threat.
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In Ireland, the film was giv a 16 certificate by the Irish Film Classification Office for strong violce, injury and language, and suicide theme.
It was released on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and On Demand in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 6 August 2018 by Arrow Video.
Terminal received gerally negative reviews from critics, with many criticising the plot, pacing, direction and narrative, though Robbie's performance and the film's visual style and production values received praise. On review aggregator website Rott Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 20% based on 69 reviews, and an average rating of 4.5/10. The site's critical conssus reads, Worth seeking out for only the most hardcore of Margot Robbie completists, Terminal lives down to the medical definition of its title in dreadfully derivative fashion.
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On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 27 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating gerally unfavorable reviews.
Rolling Stone's Peter Travers panned the film, awarding zero stars, stating, The title of this wretched Tarantino-meets-Blade Runner noir rip-off doubles as a diagnosis.
David Edelstein of Vulture gave a negative review, criticising the plot's focus, saying, since the film doesn't establish a baseline of reality, it's hard to pick out a premise.
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David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a D, writing, Vaughn Stein's Terminal takes a mess of dead tropes and Franksteins them together into a crime saga that's in desperate need of brains. And a soul. And a story.
Jacob Knight of Birth.Movies.Death. heavily criticised Stein's direction and wrote, no amount of pretty pictures could save a script this abysmally writt. Stein has pned sce after sce after sce of nasty people talking circles around one another, no character defined by anything beyond their comic book-ready aesthetic.
Jeffrey M. Anderson of The San Francisco Examiner awarded the film two and a half stars out of four, describing the film as mediocre, though praising Robbie's performance, writing, Robbie is a
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