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Review: Chris Pratt strikes back in violent, faintly poisonous 'Terminal List'

Chris Pratt stars as U.S. Navy SEAL James Reece in the debut episode of“ The Terminal List.”.

Based on a novel by retired Navy SEAL Jack Carr, "The Terminal List," which premiered Friday on Prime Video, stars Chris Pratt — in grim-visaged, square-jawed, gravel-voiced mode — as Navy SEAL commander James Reece, a man with a mission and the guns to carry it out. (This is Pratt's second SEAL, after Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty.") You will not get a hint of Andy Dwyer, the lovable lunkhead Pratt played on "Parks and Recreation" (apart from a little guitar playing) or even "Guardians

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