After watching the Terminal I was relieved. Relieved because it was superstylish movie that this gaje finally got a red thread too. Almost all the duration I was worried about going where the film is, wary if just spent more than a half hour for the things that would be equivalent to watching reality show Karma but not so fun to be laughed. However, all paid off well in the end through some sensational silly twist.
Not that I want to say that the movie is satisfactory. Satisfactory is something that is not in the Terminal dictionary. In fact, this film does not offer the slightest emotion or even a story. No character, they are only caricatures. There is no plot, we are only in charge of connecting points. This movie is a stylish parade with empty contents.
So that's it. The movie opens with Margot Robbie who is dressed up in a menor who is making a confession to a "priest" while lightening a cigarette. We'll see Robbie again, now as a waitress in a bleak restaurant in a much bleaker station than any minimarket in The Walking Dead. Looking around, there seems to be no other human beings here than some of the characters we and Robbie will meet later.
The first is Bill (Simon Pegg), a teacher who is waiting to die due to severe pain. He has a tendency to commit suicide; had wanted to jump to the train line but the cleaner said that the station was closed and there would be no more trains that night. He then stopped at Robbie's restaurant. He ordered coffee, but Robbie's character preferred to cheer him up, even gave some tips for suicide. Not serious anyway because the chat style play. Eh or maybe serious?
Next is a duo of assassins, Vincent (Dexter Fletcher) and his assistant, Alfred (Max Irons). They were waiting for the next task of the client while muttering to each other: Alfred was upset by Vincent's nervous lips, Vincent was angry at Alfred's foolishness, and we were dismayed by the sensuality and the ignorance of both. Banter are both presented without a style or a quality dialogue. The important noisy.
The one who gave them the mission was Mr. Franklin, a mysterious but mysterious criminal figure. They were told to wait at the hotel for days until the person who had to be shot in the head appeared at the hotel across the street. But before that, both of them took a break in the Robbie character restaurant.
And all these events seemed to be witnessed by a mysterious person in the CCTV control room.
There is no need to try to digest the connection between all these narratives, as they all run separately. I do not know which one first, but it does not matter anyway. The red thread is Robbie's character, which turns out to have something to do with Mr. Franklin and ... the cleaner! The latter is not an ordinary cleaner, because he is played by ... wait for it ... do not be surprised ... Mike Myers! The old hiatus from the movie world, unfortunately the Austin Powers is back for a movie like this.
For Robbie herself, she gets a chance to have fun in her role as sexy waitresses, sexy nurses, to ... striptease dancers. That's more than enough reason to show facial expression teasing and throwing a "lead" comment. It's quite surprising how everyone does not realize that this sexy, seductive, self-confident, and so savvy woman is not as expected. I mean, the adjective after the combination of the above properties is of course "deadly" is not it?
The film is written and worked on by debutant director Vaugh Stein using a graphic novel aesthetic, similar to that applied to Sin City. The film gives a theatrical feel because most of it is shot in the soundstage area. The colors of the fluorescent lights and billboards, which may be the majority made with computer effects, are attacking our eyes. Our characters are conversing with innate and contemplative novel-style dialogue material. Everything looks blindingly on the surface, but the movie has absolutely nothing to bind us. Only when the film is to its end, when the story begins to take a clear shape, my attention starts to wake up.
How long can we bear to hear pretense dialogue in a film that is nonsense? The answer: shortly. How long is this movie? The answer: 90 minutes. Or in other words: it's far beyond the "shortly" limit.