The Terminal List

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.

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, ...

(“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.

Viewers will have as hard a time remembering what's going on as the heavily concussed Navy Seal at the centre of this thriller.

Those with an appetite for the Jacks (Reacher and Ryan) will find something to enjoy in the violent infallibility of Reece. There is plenty of skull cracking and head shots. And the whole thing is desperately masculine. Chris Pratt, the square-jawed, dead-eyed star of Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World, is Navy Seal Commander James Reece (“One rowdy motherf***er,” Pratt says, on the blurb to one of Jack Carr’s novels that has been adapted for this series). The show opens with Reece on a mission in Syria that goes FUBAR, resulting in the deaths of his entire unit. Reece himself is severely concussed and returns to the United States a blurry mess; his memories of what happened in the submerged crypt in Syria do not align with those presented to him by the authorities. Pratt is a strange leading man, the product more of the masculine desire for reinvention (he was slightly soft around the edges in Parks & Recreation, now he’s ripped – so you could be too!) than any discernible talent. It is in this vein that the latest recruitment initiative for American imperialism arrives on our screens, in the form of new Amazon thriller, The Terminal List.

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And while Pratt makes for a serviceable killing machine, it would have made for a stronger series if he’d been given the space to dive deeper into his character’s maelstrom of a psyche. It’s an interesting premise, not least because the first 15 minutes of The Terminal List is devoted to the chaotic shoot-out that triggers the plot. Based on a book by real-life Seal Jack Carr, The Terminal List stars Chris Pratt as Reece, a soldier whose mind is deeply shaken by the death of a dozen soldiers from his unit on a mission that goes disastrously wrong.

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“It was kind of like a dream come true to get to work with them and learn from them. I would say 80-90 percent of the actors in The Terminal List were real Navy SEALs. Such a cool experience.” if you want to get this role I need you to go and try to get into character. I need you to gain 20 pounds and go and start training.’ Him and my mum [Maria Shriver]. Unfortunately, things didn’t go quite according to plan during one of his more recent trims.

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With both her parents by her side Lucy is able to accept the harsh realities of his job. Soon after, he is able to fully recall the memory he has been struggling to remember all along. He knows this will make little difference to Reece, telling him: "It's OK. Let's finish the list." Reece ceases all communication with Katie, but not before she gives him the final piece of the puzzle. Hartley detains her but Katie becomes the least of her worries. Katie's interrogation forces Hartley to admit the truth. Based on a novel of the same name by Jack Carr, Pratt's character James Reece is on a mission to find the truth after he returns home from a Navy SEALs operation gone terribly wrong. He tells Reece "I thought, let them die with their fucking boots on" rather than in a hospital bed. Katie's thirst for the story compels her to do just that. They were given pills as part of their health care programme, which were designed to prevent PTSD in soldiers, but the experiment failed giving all of Alpha Platoon fatal tumours. Meanwhile FBI agent Tony (JD Pardo) - who was previously gung-ho about securing Reece's capture - begins to doubt who the real villains are. Reece has arrived and is intent on killing her.