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It brings me very little joy to report that this version of the popular Terminator franchise is silly, obtuse, and pointless.
This is the worst big budget summer release I've seen in some time.
It's a fun time at the movies.
Terminator Salvation is a confused, humorless grind, with nobody, from the stars to the set designers, prepared to prick its self-importance.
The digital effects are mostly quite dazzling-not just the depictions of towering marauders...but a memorably scary sequence in which a little serpentine robot that's been taken captive thrashes furiously to save its nonlife.
T4 is a mixed bag, but it's not f------- amateur.
That the film's overall basic point has already been conveyed by the closing lines of T2 some 18 years ago shows just how completely superfluous this cash grab is.
Bangs and clangs and has some impressive effects, but it seems to have forgotten one thing: These movies used to be giddy, rock 'em, sock 'em fun. This one is just plain grim.
Doesn't amount to a hill of screws.
Sure there were some cool action sequences and a neat cameo by the Governator (or at least a cameo of his face), but the movie doesn't hold up together well as a whole.
If sensation alone makes a movie work for you, then this one succeeds on those strengths every 15 seconds.
Good action sequences will satisfy the adrenaline junkies and lots of throwbacks to Terminator films of yore will make the Terminator fans happy. There are actually parts of a good movie in here, but the focus is in the wrong place.
Machines ultra-cool, humans not so cool in McG's noisy actioner.
Listen, come over to my place this weekend; we'll rewatch Terminator 1 and 2, we'll listen to 'You Could Be Mine' by Guns N Roses, we can even discuss Edward Furlong's 'career'. And let's just pretend Terminator Salvation never happened.
McG demonstrates a complete inability to understand what made the Cameron Terminator films so good.
Salvation is a cold, blunt summer movie misfire, infatuated with mindless explosions like an infant with fecal matter...a lumbering, joyless detour into unappetizing Hollywood recycling.
An entertaining new entry into the Terminator saga (with the exception of either the biggest continuity error of the series or holding back critical information...
It could have all been a lot worse and with some imaginative new Terminators, a great score some thrilling action set-plays, critics slating the film will be proven harsh as box office results and public opinion soon come in.
Tras la fallida tercera cinta de la lucha entre hombres y máquinas, Terminator Salvation debía ser el capítulo que redimiera y reviviera la saga, sin embargo simplemente es una buena cinta de acción.
...as fascinating as chewing styrofoam--with the occasional firecracker jammed in to make you chew faster.
Just quit trying to live up to [James] Cameron and move on, Hollywood...
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