As in the previous two movies, there is, along with the extreme violence and destruction, a lot of wit in the proceedings.
Terminator Salvation (2009)
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Reviews Counted:245
Fresh:79
Rotten:166
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: 1 hr 55 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.
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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.
Reviews for Terminator Salvation
This is the film Terminator fans have been desperate to see. There's a damn good film here.
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.
A shambolic, deafening, intelligence-insulting mess, a crushing failure on almost all counts.
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.
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.
Terminator has been smothered in quasi-religious symbolism and primary-school philosophising.
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.
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.
The main difference between this and the earlier Terminator films is that it lacks a sense of danger.
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.
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.
Terminator Salvation opens on death row and proceeds agonisingly to an execution by lethal injection.
Better than Terminator 3:Rise Of The Machines but that’s not saying much. Adequate but disappointing.
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.
This is a much more straightforward, all-gunsblazing sci-fi tale of downat-heel humanity at war with some rather nasty machines.
In this fourth Terminator movie, there isn't much to laugh about, even though the earlier films raised a few smiles.
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August 25, 2009:
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June 14, 2009:
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