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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.
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Missing is Cameron's signature action modification, best exploited in Aliens: the strapping female heroine. McG's testosterone-juiced world feels a little doomed without her. Nov 17, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Missing is Cameron's signature action modification, best exploited in Aliens: the strapping female heroine. McG's testosterone-juiced world feels a little doomed without her.
Joshua Rothkopf
It brings me very little joy to report that this version of the popular Terminator franchise is silly, obtuse, and pointless. May 6, 2011 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
It brings me very little joy to report that this version of the popular Terminator franchise is silly, obtuse, and pointless.
Laremy Legel
A shambolic, deafening, intelligence-insulting mess, a crushing failure on almost all counts. Jun 5, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A shambolic, deafening, intelligence-insulting mess, a crushing failure on almost all counts.
Tom Huddlestone
Who cares what it means? Just make it loud. This is the way the series ends, not with a whimper but a bang. Except that it will probably go on, a shade of its former glory. Jun 5, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Who cares what it means? Just make it loud. This is the way the series ends, not with a whimper but a bang. Except that it will probably go on, a shade of its former glory.
Paul Byrnes
It's easy to see why Bale was attracted to this role, but this often fascinating actor gives one of his least interesting performances. Jun 5, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It's easy to see why Bale was attracted to this role, but this often fascinating actor gives one of his least interesting performances.
Jake Wilson
Terminator has been smothered in quasi-religious symbolism and primary-school philosophising. Jun 5, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Terminator has been smothered in quasi-religious symbolism and primary-school philosophising.
Andrew Pulver
I seriously thought my eardrums had burst a couple of times during Terminator Salvation. The movie sounds like jets crashing into a junkyard, one after another... Oct 30, 2018 | Full Review…
I seriously thought my eardrums had burst a couple of times during Terminator Salvation. The movie sounds like jets crashing into a junkyard, one after another...
Eileen Jones
While the sights and sounds of the Skynet military forces hunting down the rag-tag army are all that an adrenaline-junkie could wish for, the human element falls flat. Oct 9, 2018 | Full Review…
While the sights and sounds of the Skynet military forces hunting down the rag-tag army are all that an adrenaline-junkie could wish for, the human element falls flat.
Megan Basham
It was good, but not great. Sep 12, 2017 | Rating: B | Full Review…
It was good, but not great.
Candice Frederick
Terminator Salvation is a loud exercise in post-apocalyptic mayhem. When the dust settles and the action subsides, an intriguing story flourishes. Sep 8, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Terminator Salvation is a loud exercise in post-apocalyptic mayhem. When the dust settles and the action subsides, an intriguing story flourishes.
Shaun Davis
I think McG just wants to show he can spend more money blowing up more stuff more better than Michael Bay. And that's just McDumb. Aug 23, 2017 | Full Review…
I think McG just wants to show he can spend more money blowing up more stuff more better than Michael Bay. And that's just McDumb.
Steve Dollar
"Terminator Salvation" could almost pass as a sequel to "Mad Max," which goes to show just how everyone involved is merely going through the motions. Oct 7, 2015 | Full Review…
"Terminator Salvation" could almost pass as a sequel to "Mad Max," which goes to show just how everyone involved is merely going through the motions.
Martin Tsai
A very good addition to the series, better than the 3rd. Full of near non-stop action through out. A whole new range of terminators are on show and there are some great SFX/ action scenes. Some might not like the plot as it does differ from the first 3 where the action is pretty much one on one. This is very much a full on war. Go see it.
Super Reviewer
This pointless sci-fi action war film doesn't add anything new to the universe of the series but is neither an embarrassment. In fact, the only thing that makes up for its sheer inconsistencies and lack of emotional resonance is Sam Worthington's complex character.
Boring, boring, and more boring. That is the one word I will always use to describe the fourth instalment in the "Terminator" franchise. "Not having Arnold back" really left this film stale, although Christian Bale and Anton Yelchin do bring enough enjoyable charisma to the table. Much further down the line after the third instalment, Judgement Day has happened and we get to see the world crumbling around them as Skynet and technology in general has taken over the planet. Throwing in one-liners that relate to the original film and having terrible cameos were pretty much the only things keeping this film connected to it's predecessor's, and that is a big problem for me. If you watch this film as a summer blockbuster you may find yourself having a blast watching the action and not caring about the story, but that is about the most credit I can give it. Since "T2: Judgement Day," these films have been going downhill very, very fast. What's next? Probably nothing good.
Was okay. . i didnt hate it like some but wasnt the great movie it could have been. This was the movie I think many original Terminator fans were wanting . . the battle in the future but it didnt live up to what we wanted.
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