Wow! Such a good movie.

It is a performances centric movie

Best movie ever!

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

I'll try not to include any direct spoilers.This is an odd film that tries to mash too much together. There's a dead parent. There's the threat of war. There's the survivor parent who was never there. There are men in black. There is something that comes from space.There are decent effects, the editing is fine, the acting is acceptable.All of this is put in a blender and poured out in the hopes that it will be a tasty sci-fi smoothie, but in reality we are served a nutritionally complete, but somewhat bland, paste.The mood shots are overly drawn out, the scripting is average, and the acting feels forced at times to try and deliver emotion and message when it's just not needed.There are so many great sci-fi books deserving of being turned into movies. This is a sci-fi movie that was trying to be book. At best it is a short story that has been stretched into a novel and suffers as a result.Lastly, I am not sure why this film is rated R. It is an M or M+ at worst. There is some coarse language, physical violence, and gun violence. There are scenes of war and the outcomes of war but these are actually realistic and only the most sensitive teens wouldn't be able to handle it. There is no sex, nudity, or innuendo.

I just watched this movie with some friends and was blown away by how good it was! It is quite literally one of the best movies that I've seen.I loved the cinematography and the foreboding sound effects. Those two elements along with the compelling story line, well thought out characters, acting and script, make this movie really great.This movie is a slow burn, and it simmers to make a tense and dramatic and action- packed thriller. It's like a soup that takes a while to cook but ends up tasting better because it cooks at a low simmer.I want to say "Awesome job to everyone involved with this film." This movie is a lot better than some of the 100-million-dollar and higher movies that I've seen that use the same A-list actors but have terrible plots and don't give us a reason to care about the characters.In this movie, I was given a reason to care about all the characters.Excellent movie all the way around. Highly recommend.

A shoddy, stale-looking, dull sci-fi that manages to make alien contact as mundane as ordering French Fries. To make things worse, the "auteur" of this low-IQ piffle focused much more on politics than on sci-fi, filling up the movie with tons of extremely stupid fake-CNN news-flash exposition, which shows the U.S. invading Iran and eventually causing the outbreak of WW3. (The notion that a liberal-lead U.S. would even contemplate such a move is truly hilarious. What, Obama or Hellary invading Iran to save Israel? Bolivian mushrooms must be very cheap these days.)So no, I am not joking in the slightest when I tell you that this garbage is a cross between "Born on the 4th of Scientology"… Sorry, got confused there… A cross between "Born on the 4th of July" and "2010". Is it as dumb as it sounds? Much worse. Because dumb can be occasionally entertaining, but this idiocy is just excruciatingly boring. The premise of an alien being restoring human limbs is not bad, but it's handled with such incompetence by the writer and the actors (especially that sociopathic secret agent: over-actor extraordinaire) that it makes no difference what potential there was or wasn't in it. Certainly there was zip potential in combining left-wing propaganda with alien contact. I'm pretty sure some pompous mongrel had already done that anyway.To give you a hint just how much muddy pee-worthy incompetence the film swims in, the director can't even make up his mind whether the story takes place in the States or Australia, because there are clear indications of both.

Frankly, Terminus is smarter than those leaving the exaggerated negative reviews here. That might explain the "booooring" reactions to this very nicely turned, intelligent plot line that places character development at the center of an interesting take on how an alien intelligence is responsible for a hinted at 21st century version of Adam and Eve. Jai Koutrae, Kendra Appleton, and Todd Lasance turn out terrific, understated performances; the script is compelling and held my interest from the opening moments. The Brian Cachia score is first rate and sustained the almost nourish mood throughout. (It's sometimes forgotten how important the music is to driving the plot line). To echo another reviewer's comment, Mark Furmie's direction is indeed, "motivated and inspired." If you're expecting the typical dumbed-down, mind-numbing tripe that passes for sci-fi née fantasy these days (think auto-bots and Marvel comics), you'll be disappointed. But if, for example, Ex Machina and Under the Skin appealed to you, and you're looking for low-key, intelligent, well performed and directed story-telling, you'll enjoy Terminus.