In the case of Terminal, it seemed like it was better on paper than on screen. Written and directed by Vaughn Stein as his first feature film, it is too early to judge his capability, but there were some redeeming qualities.
Margot Robbie did not have a good Cockney accent though she was a good choice for the lead - she probably was the one who gave the project the greenlight under her production company. Time will tell if she will be a great producer.
The casting was definitely a good bunch, as well as getting Mike Myers back into a movie. Scenes between Simon Pegg and Robbie were the best, though Pegg's character had the least to do with the ending.
The first three-quarters of the movie were really slow. Almost every scene left me wondering if it was necessary to the overall of the movie, just because the storytelling kept the main players a mystery until the end.
This was a very self-contained movie as the story involved only the five characters. Dexter Fletcher and Max Irons had the least interesting scenes when they were together. And to a certain degree, I would also say that Myers was a miscast.
Also, it did not bode well for a mystery movie when it became predictable in the middle. I managed to guess the big reveal at the end with Robbie's character and I also figured out who the mysterious Mr. Franklyn was as they were quite obvious.
The pay-off was the last quarter of the movie, when everything was revealed; and it was not the most original. And this was one of those movies that you have to sit through the entirety to understand what was going on in the first three-quarters.
So having known how the movie ended may give the beginning more meaning. The problem is, I am not inclined to sit through it again to make that conclusion.
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