Terminal with Margot Robbie (Blu-ray)

Revenge has never been more beautiful is the subtitle of this 2018 movie starring Margot Robbie and Simon Pegg directed by Vaughn Stein. It is one of three Blu-ray movies that I bought recently alongside A Private War and The Hunger Games. All of them arrived today. I have a German version of the movie with original English and German audio tracks and optional German subtitles. I bought it for less than 5 euros, so it was an amazing deal. It has a rating of 5.4 on IMDb. I would have given it more just after 30 minutes in. It is a beautiful film noir thriller with smart dialogues and captivating story. Margot Robbie does an amazing job as a lead. On the back cover there is an excerpt from Chicago Sun-Times, calling it a dark, bloody, and breathtaking, which is an apt description of what is going on on the screen. In the end all pieces of the puzzle come together in a somewhat surprising way. It was fun to watch. 8 out of 10 for me. I enjoyed the extra content featured on the disc: The Cast of Terminal and Building the World of Terminal. Amazing value!

Watching a movie on the PS4 is a novelty for me, as I usually watch movies on my laptop in a software called mpv, where I can see the timestamps. I discovered that I can have this in the PS4 player as an overlay with Title and Chapter information. I rip my DVDs with Handbrake, upscaling them to 720p, which is convenient as a laptop has no physical drive and this way I don't need to have an external one plugged in.



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