This is the worst big budget summer release I’ve seen in some time.
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05/26/09
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Terminator Salvation (2009)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:10
Rotten:23
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: With storytelling as robotic as the film's iconic villains, Terminator Salvation offers plenty of great effects but lacks the heart of the original films.
Theatrical Release:May 21, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $125,286,889
Synopsis: In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against... [More]
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood
Director: McG
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Reviews for Terminator Salvation
Top CriticIt’s a fun time at the movies.
05/26/09
Top CriticTerminator Salvation is a confused, humorless grind, with nobody, from the stars to the set designers, prepared to prick its self-importance.
05/26/09
Top CriticThe 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.
05/22/09
Top CriticT4 is a mixed bag, but it's not f------- amateur.
05/22/09
Top CriticMessage to Hollywood: Stop with the time-travel stuff.
05/22/09
Top CriticIntensity need not be the enemy of personality, but in Bale's work it too often has been.
05/22/09
Top CriticTerminator Salvation is so programmed, so impersonal, that it practically dares you to warm to its characters.
05/21/09
Top CriticOne could argue Connor's grim demeanor is precisely what a global disaster demands. But Bale's turn has a bass-note feel that is anti-charismatic.
05/21/09
Top CriticThe movie's only unmitigated pleasure is a too-brief fight scene between Connor and a naked combatant made up to look precisely like Arnold Schwarzenegger, the relentless cyborg of the first three installments.
05/21/09
Top CriticThe latest installment in the venerable sci-fi action franchise turns out to be a straight-up war film, grim and muscular and thundering and joyless. It's the color of cement, and it weighs as much, too.
05/21/09
Top CriticThe Terminator franchise was built on thrills, imagination, narrative, emotion, believability, character development and watchability. Terminator Salvation has plenty of thrills.
05/20/09
Top CriticSkynet may not have ensured its own future, yet. But their robots have clearly made serious inroads in our movies.
05/20/09
Top CriticMcG knows how to slap an audience into awed submission. But at a certain point, you may feel so pummeled that you check out and begin pondering things like the time-travel question.
05/20/09
Top CriticThe machines are mindless, yes, but there are enough pyrotechnics and heavy artillery to feel like Armageddon squared. And when the story starts to crumble around Bale, Worthington is there to pick up the pieces.
05/20/09
Top CriticThe whole movie is a bit of a machine.
05/20/09
Top CriticI cannot completely condemn a movie that has been very competently written, directed and acted, any more than I can blame Mr. Schwarzenegger for all the woes he has encountered while trying to govern California.
05/20/09
Top CriticTerminator Salvation feels both comfortable with its limitations and justly proud of its accomplishments.
05/20/09
Top CriticSkynet, Schmynet -- the future is here.
05/20/09
Top CriticHow could such a great idea go so horribly, horribly wrong?
05/20/09
Top CriticLatest News for Terminator Salvation
December 09, 2009:
RT on DVD: The War Begins in Terminator Salvation
This week Christian Bale and Sam Worthington wage war on the machines in 'Terminator Salvation' and Henry Selick takes Neil Gaiman's 'Coraline' to marvellous stop-motion heights. More...
December 06, 2009:
McG Has Plans for Fifth and Sixth Terminator Movies 
McG held a "Terminator Salvation" chat tonight, and guess what? He's planning on making the fifth and sixth installments in the saga. More...
November 30, 2009:
RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: Terminator Salvation and a Smithsonian Battle
Pickings are indeed slim this week for new releases on home video. While we have the requisite new releases, which include a couple of major pictures that opened earlier this... More...
November 02, 2009:
Terminator Franchise Headed for Auction
"Terminator Salvation" may have been a disappointment, but the franchise is still worth a lot of money -- and now that the "Terminator" rights are preparing to hit the auction... More...
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