Termination

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.

This is a collection or short videos that are, while related, not part of one contiguous story. Treat it as such and you will appreciate it more.

This is a prime example how NOT to make an anthology. What this obviously needs is a framework. Think either Sherezades 1002 nigh structure, where a tale teller tells a listener: "Prick up your ears for these five stories i've heard", or someone could find a log book on an abandoned space ship, the last remains of a (not so?) great culture called Homo Sapiens. This would have made it more palatable. Now, by suggesting that there's a connection, while there actually isn't one, it results only in annoyed viewers. I agree that the Asian cyberpunk story was the best, if only for the daring production decision to shoot on the sttreets of Tokyo, using the unwitting public as unaware extras. And it has truly unnerving body modifications on top of that.

PS The framework, at its cheapest could be just a voice over....

5 oth 10 The Melancholic Alcoholic.

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.

I stopped watching this after the 2nd nonsensical segment. if a movie maker can't catch attention and make some sort of sense within a certain amount of time, I've learned not to spend time further on the film. It may turn out okay, it may not. I'm not going to waste part of my life to find out whether it's a sleeper or a cowflop. The other reviews here slam it. After watching 2 stories I agree.

The first segment the sound editing is so extremely terrible one has to use closed captioning to even understand the audio. (Seriously, it's not just mildly bad audio; it's the worst I've ever not-heard.) The stories started out interesting but then quickly fizzled to a no-ending. According to other reviewers it continued that way through the remaining stories so be fore-warned: this is a dumpster dive with no rewards.