Terminator Salvation2009

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• Anonymous, 5 months ago

  

  I really dug this new entry in the Terminator series. Glad they chose to not focus so much on Christian Bale's character this time and go a whole new route with Sam Worthington's Marcus. Acting wasn't as solid as hoped and the PG-13 aspect made me hang my head in shame, but still a great film in my opinion. Better than Terminator 3 atleast.

• Anonymous, 6 months ago

  

  'Terminator Salvation' is a movie of two halfs. The first is of pretty good special effects and plenty of action, which is the staple for modern day sci/fi films. However, the second half, the actualy plot/acting, seemed to be an afterthought to the scriptwriters.
  
  The plot overall was fairly average. It followed a death row inmate (Sam Worthington), who signed his body over to skynet scientists in 2003, a year before judgement day. Cut to 2018. John Connor (Christian Bale), is rampaging around a desolate version of America, shooting hordes of Terminators. The characters end up joining forces in an exceedingly predictable fashion as if the scriptwriters couldn't be bothered and simply merged a number of other sci/fi films.
  
  On the positive side, the action was superb. Great special effects and plenty of explosions to keep even the most action mad movie go-er happy.
  
  Let down by an average story and equally as average acting, 'Terminator Salvation' gets a 6/10 from me.

• Anonymous, 6 months ago

  

  The worst of the terminator series. This should be on billboards of why not to let 20 year old cokeheads reboot movie franchises (or mtv directors). Lacks the substance of being a constant chase movie of the great Terminator 1 and 2, especialy after throwing out Brad Fidels great soundtrack and putting in something watered down and terrible. Worthington is uncharasmatic, Bale even moreso. Thier is never a sense of care or bond between Reese and Connor, Bale plays it too panicky.
  
  They failed this franchise in so many ways with this movie, including Bales cussing out of the intern on set and his lame excuse wich made me a non fan of bale, that he did it because sarah connor was crazy and he was just getting into his part. lol.Reese looks to old for his age whos suppose to be 14 or so (looking 19-20).
  Only kids from 18-24 will like this who have no movie taste and think batman begins and other sad reboots are visionary movies and havent seen great movies of the 70s and 80s. your generation rips off my generation. So bad i wont watch another terminator movie (unless arnold comes back) or mcg flick. thanks for ruining another franchise of my youth guys :). A heartless waste of time, watch

• Anonymous, 6 months ago

  

  Good movie: yes
  Great Movie: no
  
  Terminator 4 lacks the emotional atmosphere and heart of the past 3 terminators. But definitely a movie to see for the die hard fans.

• Anonymous, 6 months ago

  

  i was very interested to see the actual war between the humans and skynet after T3, and to tell you the truth, i wasn't dissapointed.

• Anonymous, 6 months ago

  

  Terminator Salvation: All action, no story.
  
  
  I went to see "Terminator Salvation" during it's opening week on a Thursday night. It might not be the worst film of this year, but it's pretty terrible. This franchise just keeps falling apart since Cameron left the seat. After a long wait, we finally get to see the battle for mankind and it ends up feeling limp. I've been a fan of this franchise since I was about 5 or 6 years old. My parents first introduced me to the original film when I was a kid and I went nuts over it. So you could imagine how much joy I felt when I saw "T2", which is one of the greatest achievements within both the sci-fi and action genre. "T3" was not a good but at least it attempted to be as fun as the first two. But "Terminator Salvation" has basically ruined all of my hopes and dreams for this franchise. It's gone and it should not continue. If this franchise is going to get this bad then it doesn't need to continue.
  
  Here's a quick synopsis.
  
  After Skynet has destroyed much of humanity, John Connor leads the resistance to keep the machines from finishing the job. It's set in the year 2018 and the future is altered by the appearance of Marcus Wright. Connor must figure out where he came from. And while Skynet prepares it's destruction of humanity, Connor and Wright will embark on a journey that will lead them to the depth of Skynet and discover a terrible secret that could annihilate everyone.
  
  
  This film is visually appealing, and the action sequences are very well done. The problem is that there is no real dramatic weight behind them since the film gives us no reason to care about the characters. Story and characters should come first, but McG felt that explosions, special effects, and overblown chase sequences should come first. There was simply not enough story to keep me interested, no real character development, and no compassion in either love story. The dialogue was laughably bad and the performances are consistently mediocre.
  
  Christian Bale gives his most flat performance to date. I don't know if it was how John Connor was written, but Bale's performance is one-dimensional and his accent is horrid. All he does is scream, look intense, scream some more, look more intense. This is John Connor were talking about, the messiah of this franchise. He shouldn't be such a predictable and boring character.
  
  Bryce Dallas Howard had nothing to do except look shocked in every scene. Sam Worthington looks bored throughout the entire process. And Moon Bloodgood is nothing more then eye candy. Anton Yelchin is the only one who walks away with dignity, but even he couldn't bring any life to this film. Which is another problem with the film, there doesn't seem to be any life in it.
  
  The first two installments were fun, full of life, excitement, character depth, and real human warmth for us to connect too. None of that is apparent in "Terminator Salvation." It's too serious for it's own good. It doesn't try to spark a lot of excitement or even entertain us. It's not provocative or moving, because it gives us nothing to care about.
  
  McG seemed to care more about connecting this film to the first two installments. It couldn't stand on it's own because it kept reminding me of those two milestones in cinema. Forget that the CGI Arnold was utterly pathetic. Some of the characters were very pointless as well. Like Kyle Reese's cute little sidekick who does nothing out of the ordinary. She has no personality like Newt in "Aliens", nor does she attempt to kill any robots. She's there for no reason at all. Another awful thing in this mess is Common's performance as Barnes. He's so bad, it almost made me cringe.
  
  This film even has such a cheesy and juvenile message that I can't even connect it to the first three films. The message in "Terminator" is that we can't avoid our fate so we have to face it. The message in "Terminator 2" is there is no fate or destiny, it's our choices that shape our path in life. "T3" back peddled and said we can't avoid our destiny at all, and we'll have to face it sooner or later. We're just preventing the inevitable until the time comes. The message in "Terminator Salvation" is everybody gets a second chance. That is beyond cheesy.
  
  Overall, this is one of the worst summer films in recent years. It has some nice action sequences, a dark tone, and cool visuals. But that's all the praise it deserves. This film is too predictable, too serious, and McG takes no chances with the story. The ball for this franchise has finally dropped. My rating is a 3/10.

• Anonymous, 6 months ago

  

  The movie's miserable violent atmosphere gives Skynet's ground and air combat vehicles and robots a greyish-brown camouflage color so that the humans would have difficulty distinguishing them from demolished buildings and vehicles. As I watched the DVD movie while listening to the headphones connnected to the TV, I heard more sound effects and clear human voices than through the cinema speakers that seem to drown the actor's words with loud sound effects. Great terminator bike stunt action with no rider. I thought the bikes were like Transformers changing from bike to terminator.

• Anonymous, 6 months ago

  

  You know what to expect when you see this film.

• Anonymous, 6 months ago

  

  awesome special effects but it did not have the same passion and heart that the first 2 and i guess the 3rd had. of course terminator 1 and 2 could not be beat, i feel like this film should have never been made. it does not compare to the first 2 and like i expected i was dissappointed.

• Anonymous, 6 months ago

  

  This movie is NOT as bad as they say.
  
  This franchise was already damaged from the beginning by a dumb TV show, bad third sequel, and time travel plot holes. This movie really could not succeed in making things any worse.
  
  In the beginning, the movie is hurt by a slow, merry-go-round script that can't decide if John Connor or Sam Worthington's new character should be the center of the movie. Worthington's character I felt gave a breath of fresh air to this world.
  
  They finally come together in a climactic last third of the movie, and this is where the movie really takes off. . .
  
  Only to end with a really dumb ending that I think ruined any type of progress this movie made for the franchise.
  
  But it wasn't horrible or unwatchable.