Terminator Salvation Movie Blurb by Shale May 22, 2009 Wow! Nice Summer Action Flick! Wow! only 34% of the reviewers on Rottentomatoes liked this movie. Sorta like the X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Most of the complainers fault the gloominess of the future (It looked like the glimpses we had in the original 1984 Terminator) or that it's not the same as the other three in the franchise or that it was too much flash and bang and not enuf character development, as if Skynet wrote it. I don't know what these CRITICS want for their 10 bucks. I thought it was really entertaining and as much as I enjoyed the original movie a quarter century ago (The franchise is older than its intended demographic) this one is a nice extension of that time-travel story. The movie actually opens in our time, where Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) a murderer condemned to death gives up his body for research. We then go to 2018, after Judgment Day where John Conner (Christian Bale) is in the human resistance to the cyborgs who have taken over the planet for artificial intelligence, Skynet. Marcus reappears in this time and has no idea of what has happened. He falls in with resistance fighters and takes up the battle against the machines, saving human lives on several occasions. Those of us who saw the trailers know that Marcus has become a cyborg - but one who actually thinks himself human. Of course John Conner, knowing about the Terminators in human skin thinks he has been sent to infiltrate the resistance. What Are You - John Conner & Marcus Wright Those who are up on the story know that this is also the time of Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) who has to be kept alive so he can be sent back in time to impregnate Sarah Conner making their son John. So, not only does John have to fight the cyborgs, he has to rescue his future father, the teenage Kyle from Skynet. I think the temporal paradox was satisfied here. Son and Father Fighting Together Oh, did I say action flick? Not only do we have the skelametalic Terminators shooting and pounding the poor humans everywhere, but we also have a huge autobot thing that stomps around causing mayhem and catches humans to take to Skynet for processing. Autobot makes a menacing sound like the monster walkers in Spielberg's War of the Worlds and drops off bot motorcycles that give chase to the resistance fighters on the highway. Autobot? Even the critical reviewers gave credit for the action part of this movie. And, I thought the story was pretty good. Don't know yet if I liked the ending but it worked. There were all the compromised human loyalties, with their effort in the bleak wartime reality in which they lived, not to become soulless as the cyborgs they fought.
I saw this yesterday..have been waiting a long time for it to come out. I had subscribed to the director's blog so followed a lot of his notes on the filming. I wasn't disappointed but wish they would have made it about 15 mins longer as the ending felt rushed to me. Also I thought the ***spoiler alert**** transplant part was a little hokey...I mean don't they usually have to test to see if it's a match? LOL. Otherwise I thought Bale was a good cast for the part of JC. It was great from an action movie standpoint. I did think the apocalyptic look of the set and costumes reminded me a bit of Mad Max. It did leave it open for more sequels which is a good thing because I love the series.
BIG HONKING SPOILERS BELOW: In my original blurb I said, "Don't know yet if I liked the ending but it worked." Well, someone on a Sci-Fi site, Airlock Alpha came up with a suggestion: Shane Churchman Quote "A perfect example is the John/Marcus heart ending. ...That scene could have been so much more compelling if both Marcus and John were mortally injured because of the T-800. And as a result Marcus offered his cyborg heart to John. Have some nice dialog from Marcus that he wants his life to mean something more. Make John confront his own prejudice by having a machine act more human than he has been throughout the entire movie. Have John share a moment with Marcus, talking about his experiences as a kid about the machine that saved his life..." I agree, that's how it shoulda ended. I knew I didn't like the way Marcus just all of a sudden acted like a machine when he was sentient as being a human. I too understood, the heart was organic - but it was suggested that it was enhanced by the bots to be stronger than a human heart and likely this science would overcome the rejection factor.
Hmm, I still skeptical about a Terminator film without Cameron or Schwarzenegger, but I'm a bale and terminator fan so I'll check it out.
looks like a sweet movie. there's a lot of good action movies out now. star trek, this one, and xmen. i wanna see all of them. as far as critics not liking the gloomy future aspect...i wonder if any of them have ever seen mad max... i personally love post apocalyptic movies.
Maybe they'll tie up some of the loose ends in the next sequel. I've read that they already have 2 planned.
I heard from a very reliable source that it really sucks I think I’ll pass and wait until it comes out on DVD Hotwater
Another sequel. Terminator may get as bad as Jason and come out with 15 movies. Do we really need that? The original Terminator movie was good, and then T2 was good, but then we found they just werent going to stop, and then you had T3, and the Sarah Connor Chronicals and they are just beating this stuff to death. Hollywood is so dead that they either have to keep remaking old classics, or, make 15 sequels of one movie. Enough already.
Saw it, didn't like it. Plus it was nothing like what it was suppose to look like, I know it was 10 years earlier than the future shown in T2, but where were the lazers and massive scale war zones? Best part of the film was the start.
The SFX were good, the plot was weak. It held zero suspense for me, and the whole 'unwitting double agent' idea has been used time and time again-- the movie Total Recall springs to mind, as does the Matrix sequels (granted, they were inspired by the original Terminator, but that doesn't mean it's okay to just regurgitate what they had already done). In fact, I don't think there was a single line, idea or character in the film that had any originality to it whatsoever. The cyborg man wasn't a surprise, because you see him in the trailers... maybe if they'd kept it a secret, it would have been a surprise... probably the only surprise in the whole film. Then again, probably not, because how else could he have still been alive??? Also T2 isn't half as great as everyone thinks. It was better than 3 and this piece of garbage, but at its heart it was porn for special effects enthusiasts. The first one was the only one that was at all interesting, and that's because it ripped off Harlan Ellison.
