The Terminal List

2022 - 7 - 2

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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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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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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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'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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Is The Terminal List on Netflix? (Netflix Life)

Chris Pratt plays James Reece. The series also stars Constance Wu, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Riley Keough. All eight episodes of the series are now available ...

There is some bad news when it comes to streaming the eight-episode series. Something major would need to happen for Prime Video to even consider handing streaming rights to Netflix at this point. The Terminal List is one of the latest.

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From 'Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan' to 'The Blacklist', 7 Shows Like 'The ... (Collider.com)

Going undercover is a lot of hard work. Check out this handpicked list of exciting shows to follow up your binge of The Terminal List.

We've seen him playing eccentric characters in films like Borat and The Dictator. To see Cohen take on a role that is 180 degrees different from his usual comedic tropes is a surprising breath of fresh air. The Night Manager revolves around Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston), a former British soldier who now works as the night manager of an exclusive luxury hotel in Cairo. Pine is involved with a local woman, who happens to be the girlfriend of a local gangster. A massive portion of the show's storyline is adapted from the book "The Spy Who Came from Israel," which details the spy's years under espionage leading up to the Israel-Syria Six-Day War in 1967. In addition to the three actors mentioned above, the show features Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki, and Alistair Petrie. Give them a great script and brilliant cinematography, and we've got one of the best thrillers of the decade. Through the woman's relationship with the gangster, Pine learns of the illegal international arms sales conducted by English billionaire Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie). When things take a deadly turn, Pine immediately relocates to a remote hotel in Switzerland. But soon enough, he finds himself recruited by Angela Burr (Olivia Colman), the manager of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office task force, and is assigned to infiltrate Roper's inner circle and criminal schemes. Leading the Hunters is Meyer Offerman ( Al Pacino), a Polish-Jewish philanthropist and Holocaust survivor who is responsible for new recruitments into his group. HANNA is an American action drama revolving around 15-year-old Hanna (Esme Creed-Miles), an extraordinary young girl raised by her father, Erik Heller (Joel Kinnaman), in a remote forest in Poland. Before exiling himself to nowhere land, Heller was a former CIA operative who was part of UTRAX. This program recruits pregnant women into the agency and ensures that their children’s DNA is enhanced with super-soldier abilities. A second season is currently in the works. Initially, a Marine veteran, Dr. Ryan has a significant role in the Terror Finance and Arms Division (T-FAD), which is overseen by the Counterterrorism Center (CTC). So yeah, our little doctor definitely knows a thing or two about tackling terrorism and global threats to the U.S. In the second season, we find Dr. Ryan handling a different crisis in the middle of Venezuela. There is something fascinating about the concept of a deadly killing machine disguised as a teenage girl. Nothing screams tension more than working with your mortal enemy, especially if said enemy is on the FBI's Wanted List. The Blacklist explores the relationship between high-profile criminal Raymond "Red" Reddington ( James Spader) and rookie FBI profiler Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone). Before diving into the dark world of crime, Reddington was a former U.S. Navy officer. After encountering a string of suspicious bank transfers carried out by a rising international extremist, Dr. Ryan scours across Europe and the Middle East to hunt for the terrorist figurehead before time runs out.

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