Too much of everything

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Terminator Salvation (2009) ReviewIt's a prequel/reboot of the Terminator franchise starring Christian Bale as John Connor. Bale is great in the role and gives more commitment than the previous actor who played him in T3. Anton Yelchin is a perfect casting choice for the young Kyle Reese and the film would have been a lot better if it focused on his story. Sam Worthington plays a hybrid human/cyborg and he does his best to carry the film but his character isn't really that interesting. It is a good technical achievement in terms of visual and practical effects. The cinematography has a bleak post-apocalyptic look it. It takes the franchise into exciting new directions but it's squandered by dull one dimensional characters and often lazy writing. The ending feels rushed with a poorly rendered CGI cameo of Arnold that looks like it was taken straight out of PlayStation 2 video game. It isn't terrible it's actually quite enjoyable throughout and has some nice ideas but it's just full of flaws and a few too many plot-holes.

What the hell do you people want? This movie is by far better than the rest (except T2 of course!) This post-apocalyptic vision is everything I wanted and more, how underrated this film is. Badass in so many ways, casting has never been more perfect, terminators come in so many varieties, sci-fi af, grittier than ever before, I lay awake at night trying to get myself to dream up a sequel 'cause I know it'll never happen because of all of you idiots you rated this bad. I bet you people like T3 and TGenesis better. How nauseating. SALVATION IS SICK in the non-nauseous way. Coolest portrayal of the future of the terminator universe. I LOVE THIS FILM.

This was ok...a lot of bad reviews out there but I enjoyed it for the most part after I removed myself from the Terminator franchise and just took it for what it was. Its loud, fast, loaded with CGI, a bit of Road Warrior, a bit War of the Worlds and a bit Transformers with ginormous OTT terminator machines (they were terrible.) Less Christian Bale than I expected after all that media hype and press surrounding him. He was actually kind of a secondary character. I enjoyed Marcus's storyline and Sam Worthington's portrayal of him. He doesn't know what he is but come on, this is meant to be a big twist but not really, its more the anti-twist. What did he think happened to him on death row after he signed his body over to Skynet and woke up in the future? Blah. Enjoyed seeing Sarah Conner on tapes. I liked the tie ins to the original story very much. I also enjoyed Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese, portraying one of my favourite heroes of all time from the original Terminator ...sigh...Anton.

Post apocalyptic Los Angles. The machines have risen. The year is 2018 in "Terminator Salvation".Let me start by saying that I really enjoyed this film, it was a nice change of pace for something different,so I'm glad that they chose to do the future war. Trouble was director McG didn't have these three ingredients: First- there was no Arnold.Second- Setting the time frame of the future war in 2018 instead of 2029 sort of ticked off fans. And last but not least, Third- Giving this a toned down PG-13 rating instead of an R rating of what the audience expected.Having said that, I still enjoyed it for what it was.This may contain some spoilers.Marcus Wright, the guy we see in the beginning, of the film set in 2003 is a convict on death-row about be executed for a crime that he possibly committed. But before he is committed he is ask to donate his body to science but it's really Cyberdyne Systems.Fast forward to the future war of 2018, Marcus wakes up in some type of bunker as he exits he sees the world is a cold dark wasteland. He later teams up with a young Kyle Reese as they embark on a journey to find John Connor. Marcus and John form an uneasy alliance for John learns Marcus is cyborg, but uses him to help infiltrate Sky-net's compound. It's flawed but, I think it was at least a little better than T3.I give it a 6/10 a cool fun action movie. If your a fan of the franchise I recommend it.