SummaryJudgment Day has come and gone. The artificial intelligence network Skynet controls the army of Terminators that roam the post-apocalyptic landscape, killing or collecting humans where they hide in the desolate cities and deserts. Only one man saw Judgment Day coming. One man, whose destiny has always been intertwined with the fate of hu...
SummaryJudgment Day has come and gone. The artificial intelligence network Skynet controls the army of Terminators that roam the post-apocalyptic landscape, killing or collecting humans where they hide in the desolate cities and deserts. Only one man saw Judgment Day coming. One man, whose destiny has always been intertwined with the fate of hu...
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.
It was one the best movies that i have watched in the past 5years, yea sometimes it was so slow and cold performance and in an instant everything would have changed and you couldn't even blink!
After watching dark fate and genisys. This is the best terminator after 2. Don’t bother watching any other terminator after this one! Also enough of that time travel ****
The 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.
Most of the running time is occupied by action sequences, chase sequences, motorcycle sequences, plow-truck sequences, helicopter sequences, fighter-plane sequences, towering android sequences and fistfights. It gives you all the pleasure of a video game without the bother of having to play it.
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.
Building an entire franchise on top of the smashing success of two films was a mistake, and the comparison between "Terminator 2" and this film is even unfair. Through this film, we travel to an apocalyptic future, where a program called Skynet managed to start a war between humans and machines. Human resistance is led, of course, by John Connor. But what to do when a man comes to him who may not be who he says he is?
I honestly don't want to talk about the plot too much because talking too much about it implies, in my perspective, revealing too much about the film, and I honestly don't want to do that. This is due to the fact that it is too simple and thin, in addition to being a little obvious, being quite easy to guess the main events and twists. In fact, the script, despite trying to offer us something more than chase scenes, turns out to be just a pretext for action scenes, one after another, with the story itself being relegated to the background.
It is quite evident that director McG (what an absurd pseudonym, it looks like a car brand!) bet all his chips on creating a "blockbuster action" movie, and invested extensively in production values and noisy and impressive action scenes, neglecting almost everything else and letting the name "Terminator" to help to make the film saleable.
The cast is satisfactory. As it could not be otherwise, Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to assume the role of terminator, but in a CGI version of himself, ugly and uninteresting enough to disappoint anyone. Christian Bale could have done better, too. He is a shadow of himself here. On the contrary, Sam Worthington offers us a complex and charismatic character, and Anton Yelchin also offers us a consistent and solid performance. Unfortunately for both actors, the film is not very interesting, and I have doubts if any of them keep good memories of this work.
It is, truly, in the technical features that this film shows some value and justifies its budget. The action is the strongest part of the film and was designed to satisfy audiences who are pleased with much destruction, shots, explosions and noise. This is not necessarily bad, on the contrary, it is welcome in this kind of film, but sometimes excess is also a sin and exaggeration takes away some credibility in some scenes, transforming the film into something as real and exciting as a great and expensive video game. Cinematography is very good, the film has an elegant look and the destroyed world is impressive. The sets and costumes are very good and the effects and CGI are great, made to impress.
Again with these low-quality sequels that aren't even worthy of tying the shoes of the first two movies. No cinematic art in this film, another terminator without ideas and without cinematic power.
Every single time I watch this slow, forgettable snooze-fest I always end up falling asleep on it. All of the characters are one-dimensional bores. There are a lot of idiotic plot holes (such as Terminators kidnapping humans and taking them hostage instead of just killing them like they're PROGRAMMED to do) and some huge continuity errors (such as Sarah Connor's audio diary voice clips being different from the ones she made at the end of the first Terminator film). Christian Bale was severely miscast as John Connor. He overacted his role and was annyingly shouting a lot. It was like hearing a screaming child. Bale was a horrible John Connor. You can hear his annoying, infamous Batman (or as some people like to insultingly say: Throat Cancer Man) voice when he screams. John Connor was stupidly sidelined throughout almost the entire film and was overshadowed by a bunch of cardboard characters who are nobodies (including a young black girl who never talked at all). Sam Worthington was so forgettable in this sequel as a cybernetic Terminator on the human resistance side. I don't even remember his character's name. Kate Connor (who used to be Kate Brewster before marrying John Connor) was almost completely absent in the film and heavily underutilized. She was so underused that I forgot she was even in this film and forgot she was even recast and played by Bryce Dallas Howard who replaced Claire Danes in the role. This is the first and so far only Terminator movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger is absent (probably because he was too busy being the governor of California back then or something), so the role of the T-800 was recast with Arnie's understudy Roland Kickinger (who is also a tough, muscular Austrian and actually looks a lot like Arnie and looked like him so much that I actually that he was Arnie the first few times I watched Salvation) replacing him in the role. The The plot was completely all over the place. The characters are all horrible, beyond boring, one-dimensional, completely forgettable, utterly underdeveloped, and completely lack personality. The cast was horrible and all purely lack chemistry and charisma, though it's not ENTIRELY their fault cause the writing and directing were horrid. Oh, and this movie is way too loud. Salvation is a slow-paced, boring, forgettable, over-the-top, loud, mindless action-packed snooze-fest filled with a lot of plot holes and one-dimensional characters. I really don't see how this awful movie has a 5.9 user score. Terminator Salvation honestly should have way lower than a 5.0 user score.
Production Company
The Halcyon Company,
Wonderland Sound and Vision,
Columbia Pictures,
Intermedia Films,
Lin Pictures,
T Asset Acquisition Company,
Warner Bros.