Termination

I was conducting a search for Terminator movies when I saw "Termination" advertised with a cool looking android. This looked pretty cool with average screenplay of Astronauts approaching and somehow landing on Mars. After a fairly decent introduction, the movie became jumbled and nonsensical, bouncing around with no plot. There may have been a plot. However, I wasn't willing to suffer through fair to poor acting and silly dialog. Don't waste your time unless you need help falling asleep. Overall, it is utter trash. Why anyone presents trash like this as if it is a feature film is beyond me.

This is a science fiction anthology of 6 stories told in 5 chapters with an extra at the beginning and the end as one unit. I liked the sets. The stories were disjointed and at times confusing. The characters were not developed and left something to be desired. A dopplinger on Mars kills violent AI humans to prevent them from getting on a train with the lochnar and infecting the web. I think that sums most of them up. Guide: F-word. No sex. Flashing picture nudity.

This might have been good given the premise had it an ounce of coherency. Instead it's told in chapters which seem to have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

Well, I will just be honest and say that the movie's cover/poster lured me in. It seemed like something in the likes of being cyberpunk. I did take note of it being labeled as an action, sci-fi and horror movie here on IMDb, so I thought that the chances were great that writer and director Alice Nicolini had something good going here. I managed to endure around 25 minutes of the ordeal that is known as "Termination", then I had to do what the title said. I had to terminate the movie, because it was definitely one of the most prolonged and boring movies that I have had the misfortune of sitting down to watch recently. Very little of any much interest happened in these excruciatingly long 25 minutes, and it didn't really help that the character gallery was downright rubbish. Visually, then "Termination" had something going for it, but the storyline and script was a massive swing and a miss, sliding down a steep downhill slope. I fell off the wagon down that slope, and I have absolutely zero interest in getting back in the seat and finish watching the movie. My rating of "Termination" lands on a two out of ten stars, solely because the props were good and the visuals were good. And also the cyberpunk-like cover definitely spruced the movie up, serving as a masterful selling point for an otherwise atrocious movie experience.

An anthology film with real talent. Where I didn't always understand what was going on it was always visually stimulating and the acting was always good. Sound and cinematography was spot on. Great intriguing work.

A series of random vignettes with a science fiction bent: A mission to Mars goes awry, things get hairy on a space station, toxic red dust wipes people out, folks are used as an involuntary energy score by some creep, weird stuff happens on a space train, a gal gets taken over by a computer program in futuristic Japan, and a woman gets replaced by a double. The problem with this omnibus affair is that the stories tend to be too short and hence don't pack much in the way of punch. Moreover, there's a serious lack of cohesion, so everything doesn't add up to much. Fortunately, things unfold at a cracking pace, the CGI effects are pretty good considering the modest budget, and there's a wealth of funky visuals evident throughout, so overall this item rates as a perfectly acceptable diversion.

Gets four stars for the girls. It is not a full-length movie. Rather, it is four... or five short scenes. All them completely unoriginal; but not without some intriguing attractiveness. The best is indeed the cyberpunk sequence; with the teen-Asians. The girl in "The Andromeda Strain" part is very beautiful; as is the little blonde on the film-noir train. Saw this on Tubi, the free streaming service. Tubi has a very odd assortment of stuff; some of it is good, some is not. I think this film was made as sort of a showcase of abilities: both filmmakers, and stars. Oh, the teen girl in the "Doppleganger" part was pretty, too.