soil after a disastrous op leaves everyone on his team KIA except him - being a very disturbed and unreliable narrator. The first two episodes lean heavily into Reece - back on U.S. It never all quite pays off the way you might want it to though, since it teases going in unique and inspired directions only to fall back in line with a more traditional model, but the bright spots are still worth noting. The Terminal List weaves together different action-thriller elements, mostly successfully. Reece is a stern, dutiful legend amongst Navy SEALs and can take down entire squads by himself, and while that has its place - especially in a blood-soaked tale of vengeance - the way the story's dosed out means we never see Reece as anything but dour and/or in mourning. 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 would have tightened the pacing and allowed the weight and drama a clearer path to success.īecause 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.
Could this have been a movie? A shorter series? Probably.
Naturally, hindsight is 20/20, so there's no true answer as to the best way to adapt this story, but eight full-hour episodes finds this saga stretching to fill time, often falling back on "asked and answered" sentiment, repeating the story's soft, reflective moments until they wind up cannibalizing each other. When The Terminal List works, it works well. In that regard, The Terminal List fits in well, even occasionally delivering devilish twists and engaging action, but it also wallows incessantly in heaviness, beating the same drum over and over until much of it becomes dull. The Terminal List, adapted from the first of Jack Carr's five "James Reece" books, is an earnest but overlong revenge thriller featuring Chris Pratt in humorless Heartland hero mode, for story that hits all the important "Big Dad Energy" beats that Amazon's been chasing after its success with both Bosch and Jack Ryan.
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