{"id":316,"date":"2018-08-07T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=316"},"modified":"2018-08-15T07:27:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T07:27:50","slug":"terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/sci-fi\/terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/18RqtFuaNe8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get it sorted all the things this film isn&#8217;t. It isn&#8217;t an effective neo-noir thriller, despite some well constructed shots and a love of neon. It isn&#8217;t a complex, multi-layered narrative that demands the viewer to construct the pieces. It isn&#8217;t a beautiful evocation of cityscapes. So it&#8217;s not Blade Runner, Inception or 2046, although it quite wants to be.<\/p>\n<p>But what it is mainly, is Robbie having a blast. She acted as producer and you can see why a script from a relative unknown who had only been second director previously, appealed to her. She plays Annie\/bottle blond\/sugar plum &#8211; a waitress\/assassin\/stripper who interacts across three intersecting story lines. These feature Simon Pegg&#8217;s dying English teacher, two hitmen and the obviously made up Mike Myers night watchman. <\/p>\n<p>Narrative wise it&#8217;s a series of cliches and tropes. But it&#8217;s worth watching for Robbie alone, and particularly her scenes with Pegg (who underplays and is considerably less annoying than usual). Her character is a bit cockney Harley Quinn, but worth catching. It&#8217;s a movie that&#8217;s not as smart as it aspires to be, and tries hard for multiple twists, that leave you with a sense of &#8216;meh&#8217; rather than &#8216;wow&#8217;. The final denouement in particular is bathing in bathos. But those reservation aside, relax and enjoy seeing a bona fide star at the top of her game, relishing a role without the pressure of high budget. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s get it sorted all the things this film isn&#8217;t. It isn&#8217;t an effective neo-noir thriller, despite some well constructed shots and a love of neon. It isn&#8217;t a complex, multi-layered narrative that demands the viewer to construct the pieces. It isn&#8217;t a beautiful evocation of cityscapes. So it&#8217;s not&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/sci-fi\/terminal\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-fi","category-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}