The Terminal List

This recap of the Amazon original series The Terminal List season 1, episode 1, "The Engram," contains spoilers. Access the recaps, reviews, and news for.

He pulls his gun, and when he pulls the door of the car open, it is Katie, the reporter he sent the email message to. Reece calls the cops to go to his home as he races there. His superiors look at him like he is crazy, and when he is walked out, his commander tells him that Boozer shot himself with a nine-millimeter. The commander falls asleep during his CT scan, and when he calls for the doctor, he is met by two hooded masked men. An example of this is holding a plate of cinnamon rolls fresh out of the oven, and it takes him five seconds to realize the searing pain from the hot tray. The Secretary of Defense (Jeanne Tripplehorn) hands out a baker’s dozen Silver Crosses that day, and she awards him the Navy Cross. As he drives home, he sees a grey car following him. Meanwhile, he tells him if Reece ever feels like something is off with him, to call him right away. Reece wants to stay behind to get all his boys off the coast but is told he is the last one. He was one of Reece’s men, who was the one “freaking” out that evening. Reece has a meeting and claims that this was a setup. The Terminal List starts with James Reece (Chris Pratt) smashing the SEAL pin of a fallen special forces soldier into a coffin. Reece is prepping his team for a mission to capture a chemical weapons terrorist named Kahani. Reece leads his team on an underwater mission to infiltrate a facility through underground sewer lines.

The star makes for a listless lead in a dated and drably made eight-part military thriller that offers little intrigue or excitement.

There’s little of interest for anyone else to do, from a mostly unconvincing Constance Wu as an exposition-spouting journalist to a cartoonishly evil Jai Courtney as a big tech baddie to Taylor Kitsch slumming it as a quippy soldier pal to a bizarrely thankless role for the wonderful Riley Keough on wife duty. But it’s familiar to a fault, a tired and tiring series unfurling on Independence Day weekend for those looking for a low-stakes post-barbecue watch, a slab of barely heated red meat that’s all extremely hard-to-chew gristle. In a recent interview, Pratt, who on the same press tour has shown understandable annoyance over Twitter voting him “the worst of the Chrises”, revealed that the allure of a return to television was the ability to see a story that would have felt rushed and shallow at 90 minutes get the expansive eight-hour treatment, allowing ancillary characters depth and development.

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However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life, but the lives of those he loves.” Also starring Taylor Kitsch, Constance Wu, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Riley Keough, the new series is about to drop on Prime Video. Per Amazon, “Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. But if it were a real series, I like to think that it’d star Don Cheadle as a hard-drinking private investigator who has a soft spot for the underdog.

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He is also coming off a remarkable commercial success with Jurassic World Dominion. Considering Pratt’s history in franchise blockbusters like Guardians of the Galaxy and the Jurassic World series, shouldn’t this be a foregone conclusion? The Terminal List is a highly anticipated series with a lot of buzz around it, and Chris Pratt is a massive star in his prime. I thought for sure The Terminal List would be a limited series based on the plot.

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With its in-your-face violence, far-reaching conspiracy, and holiday weekend release, The Terminal List goes to great lengths to establish itself as a tentpole thriller. The Terminal List’s overall blandness is particularly disappointing given its impressive star power in front of and behind the camera. Katie is also one of the few characters who gets something approximating a backstory, alhough it’s not fully fleshed out until the penultimate episode: when she was a child, her father took a stand against the Chinese Communist Party and paid the ultimate price, an experience that taught her the importance of speaking truth to power. The Terminal List’s aversion to character development extends beyond its supporting players; Reece’s interiority is largely left unexplored, and Pratt's gruff performance yields little additional insight. Unfortunately this lesson seems to have escaped the team behind The Terminal List, Prime Video’s latest big budget drama (and the streamer’s answer this July 4th weekend to Netflix's blockbuster release of Stranger Things Season 4, Volume 2). Based on the novel of the same name by Jack Carr, The Terminal List stars Chris Pratt as James Reece, a Navy SEAL whose entire platoon is ambushed during a covert mission. As action thrillers go, The Terminal List is about as generic as they come — it’s notably similar to Michael B. Jordan’s Without Remorse, Amazon’s film adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel — and viewers hoping for a violent, fast-paced drama won’t be disappointed.

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 is based on one of five titles in the James Reece series. The sequel novel follows Reece after the events of The Terminal List. Now that he’s one of America’s most wanted domestic terrorists, Reece emerges in Mozambique where he’s taken shelter with the family of one of his fallen comrades. DiGilio mentioned the writing team has a “roadmap” for “each season” ahead of them. The Terminal List certainly has enough revenge and gunfire to sustain itself for a singular season, but could a second installment be on the horizon? If The Terminal List is successful, it could run for at least five seasons. It makes sense since the show adapts the first book of a five-book series.

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(“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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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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Popular or respected comedies like “Barry,” “Atlanta,” “Hacks,” “Only Murders in the Building,” and even “Ted Lasso” aren’t just comedies. Beyond the holiday — and beyond the parallels to his past Prime Video project — the series ticks off genre cliché after genre cliche: There’s a conspiracy. “It’s the intangible things that movies get wrong, the character, what’s inside.” “The Terminal List” is a far cry from “American Sniper,” even though Pratt seems to be channeling Cooper throughout (with his depression beard, growling baritone, and deadened expression). His series isn’t a true story, nor does it dwell much on verisimilitude outside the consistent military jargon. In “The Terminal List,” Pratt plays James Reece, a Navy SEAL commander deployed on a dangerous mission that proves to be a catastrophic failure. Pratt hasn’t found that trademark second gear — not yet, and certainly not with “The Terminal List.” Reviews have been scathing. Both are available via Prime Video (predominantly). Both star Pratt as a military officer (an active Navy Commander in “Terminal List” and a retired Green Beret in “Tomorrow War”) whose primary mission is an unexpected one. Compared to “The Tomorrow War,” what stands out right away is the grim tone. Enter “The Terminal List.” His latest effort arrives in almost identical fashion to his last streaming project. “Passengers” disappointed at the box office (even with Jennifer Lawrence as the co-lead), and whatever success is attributed to “The Magnificent Seven” — like his far more profitable MCU and “Jurassic” projects — isn’t necessarily tied to Pratt. (That’s a Denzel Washington movie first and a remake of a classic western second.) In addition, almost all of Pratt’s action vehicles (“Guardians” movies aside) have been met with a critical drubbing, and his three non-franchise action flicks provided few, if any, indication they could stand the test of time. About midway through “ The Terminal List,” Chris Pratt gives the speech. His first military role came in “Zero Dark Thirty,” and as soon as he got jacked, blockbuster parts rolled in.

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At one point he even triggers a rockslide and rides it to help him escape a group of SEALs. Basically, there’s a lot of belief suspension required when watching this series. The pacing and atmosphere of this series, while always dramatic, is so varied it’s like listening to a mix tape with country, rock, rap, reggae, and a couple of The Chipmunks holiday songs. Flashbacks to Reece’s family and former platoon are meant to provide backstory, but are told out of sequence and are so inconsistent they lack impact and proper context. Reece and his group are quickly led into a trap and his team is eliminated. His SEAL team has been tracking a Syrian chemical weapons specialist for years and they finally have reliable intel on how to capture him, or so they believe. Action forward and loaded with intrigue yet with significant flaws, the series remains enjoyable due to its star.

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“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)