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Terminator Salvation (2009)

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Reviews Counted:247

Fresh:77

Rotten:170

Average Rating:5/10

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.

Rated: 12A [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and language.

Runtime: 3 hrs 51 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Theatrical Release:03-06-2009

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... 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 Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

The film also stars Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese, Charlotte Gainsbourg as Kate Connor, Moon Bloodgood as Blair Williams, Common as Barnes, and Jadagrace as Star. --© Warner Bros. [More]

Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood

Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Bryce Dallas Howard, Common, Jane Alexander, Helena Bonham-Carter, Jadagrace

Director: McG

Director: McG
Screenwriter: Michael Ferris, John Brancato
Producer: Moritz Borman, Derek Anderson, Victor Kubicek, Jeffrey Silver
Composer: Danny Elfman
Studio: Warner Bros.

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As in the previous two movies, there is, along with the extreme violence and destruction, a lot of wit in the proceedings.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
06/12/09
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

This is the film Terminator fans have been desperate to see. There's a damn good film here.

Full Review Source: Sunday Mail [UK] | comment 10 Comments
06/12/09
Mickey McMonagle
Mickey McMonagle
Sunday Mail [UK]

This latest Terminator may well please the committed obsessive, but the rest of us are left feeling simultaneously beaten about the head and yet slightly underwhelmed.

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06/05/09
Boyd Hilton
Boyd Hilton
Heat Magazine

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Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
06/05/09
Devin Faraci
Devin Faraci
Empire Magazine
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A shambolic, deafening, intelligence-insulting mess, a crushing failure on almost all counts.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment 8 Comments
06/05/09
Tom Huddlestone
Tom Huddlestone
Time Out
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Bigger explosions, more robots but far less fun or potent than James Cameron's modern classics. Action junkies might be back for future installments, but for more discerning fans it's hasta la vista. Baby.

Full Review Source: Film4 | comment Comment
06/05/09
Leigh Singer
Leigh Singer
Film4
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Terminator Salvation looks, sounds and tastes like a £2.50 fairground ride. There is nothing human about it. McG feeds you the sort of thrills that can be had on Clacton pier.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment 2 Comments
06/05/09
James Christopher
James Christopher
Times [UK]
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Terminator has been smothered in quasi-religious symbolism and primary-school philosophising.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
06/05/09
Andrew Pulver
Andrew Pulver
Guardian [UK]
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With much buzzing, beeping and whirring, the Terminator franchise comes to an absolute creative standstill, or even goes clankingly into reverse, with this fantastically dull fourth episode.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
06/05/09
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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It’s a catastrophically bad movie whose aggressive dullness and dumbness can best be reproduced by picking up a brick and slamming it against one’s forehead for two hours.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
06/05/09
Sukhdev Sandhu
Sukhdev Sandhu
Daily Telegraph
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The main difference between this and the earlier Terminator films is that it lacks a sense of danger.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment 4 Comments
06/05/09
Limara Salt
Limara Salt
Little White Lies

It has enough pace and excitement to keep action fans switched on.

Full Review Source: Digital Spy | comment Comment
06/05/09
Stella Papamichael
Stella Papamichael
Digital Spy

Salvation is clearly aimed at a younger audience than its predecessors. The carnage is surprisingly bloodless, there’s virtually no cussing and several scenes were clearly conceived with one eye on the PlayStation.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
06/05/09
Elliott Noble
Elliott Noble
Sky Movies

The Terminator story recharges with a post-apocalyptic jolt of energy. Frantic and full of welcome ties to the past, it also ploughs new ground with purpose.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
06/05/09
Simon Edwards
Simon Edwards
Total Film

Terminator Salvation opens on death row and proceeds agonisingly to an execution by lethal injection.

Full Review Source: GQ Magazine [UK] | comment Comment
06/05/09
Alex Blimes
Alex Blimes
GQ Magazine [UK]

Better than Terminator 3:Rise Of The Machines but that’s not saying much. Adequate but disappointing.

Full Review Source: Heart 106.2 | comment Comment
06/05/09
Simon Thompson
Simon Thompson
Heart 106.2

It's brainless, it's soulless, and it gave me a headache.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment 1 Comment
06/05/09
Christopher Tookey
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

A pulse-pounding visual spectacle, given its bloodline this is the very least we expect. But when things aren't blowing up, T4 sags - and sags badly.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
06/05/09
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

This is a much more straightforward, all-gunsblazing sci-fi tale of downat-heel humanity at war with some rather nasty machines.

Full Review Source: Sunday Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
06/05/09
Mark Adams
Mark Adams
Sunday Mirror [UK]

In this fourth Terminator movie, there isn't much to laugh about, even though the earlier films raised a few smiles.

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment 1 Comment
06/05/09
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