I have been a sci-fi fan for about 55 of my 60 years. My dad was a sci-fi fan, and when I was a child, we watched just about every sci-fi movie made in the '50's and '60's when flying saucers and Martians were all the rage. I have found over the years that a lot of the really good sci-fi movies were not big budget movies. I will take edge of your seat suspense any day over big budget gazillion dollar special effects. Two movies, Extraterrestrial (2014) and Grey Skies (2010) are examples of movies that I found better than most big budget Hollywood productions. I would put Terminus in that same category, although it would have been a bit more suspenseful had the writer given the viewer a little more information regarding the pending nuclear war. The only thing that I really did not understand about the making of this movie is that it was made in Australia with Australian actors, yet it was supposedly set in the United States. I saw no reason why was it necessary for the movie to be set in the United States, and the fact that is was supposedly set in the United States made the clichés and goofs stand out like a sore thumb. The government agents were literally dressed like "men in black" (black suits with black button down shirts) driving black cars. Perhaps the government agents in Australia dress like that. I don't have a clue, but they would never dress like that in the United States because if they did, they would literally stand out like a sore thumb and everybody would be staring at them wherever they went. Cars with steering wheels on the right instead of on the left was another goof that would not have been a goof had the movie been set in Australia. I just think that the movie would have been much better if in fact the setting was Australia instead of the United States. The original Mad Max was set in Australia and it is now a classic that just about everyone on the planet has seen at least once. Anyway, Terminus is a good sci-fi movie. Not great, but definitely worth watching.
Review of Terminus
