Terminator Salvation
After six years of waiting, we finally have another entry into the Terminator series. However, Schwarzenegger is not in the starring role this time. Can the movie survive without the same leading man as the previous three films? Let's find out.
The movie opens with our hero, Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), being put to death due to causing the deaths of a few soldiers in the field. Once his procedure begins, some text appears explaining what is going on in the year 2018. Afterwards, Marcus along with some of his fellow soldiers are out in a field killing some Terminators. They go out searching and find something, but Marcus is told to go above ground and find out why his comrades aren't responding. Once he arrives above ground, he discovers them dead due to the surrounding Terminators. He takes control of the helicopter in hopes of destroying at least a few, but fails as the others are killed in a giant explosion. Once he goes back to base, he's briefed on his next mission assignment along with accepting to do a science experiment. His mission requires him to find John Connor (Christian Bale) who is searching for his father, Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin). So that's exactly what he sets out to do.
Let's get the shortest part over with so I can talk about the more fun part of the movie. All I have to say is good about this film is the last third of the movie. It's fun, action packed, and what the movie should have been all along. I guess I can also say that it was nice throwing in some fan service here and there.
Where to begin with all the terrible crap in this movie. Well, before that, I should inform anyone bothering to read this that by the time I first watched this film, I hadn't seen any of the previous three films in the series. However, I did watch it with someone that has to try and make up for that. With that said, this movie can get pretty confusing. It's almost too fast-paced during its action sequences. If you so much as blink or look away for a second or two, you'll be lost in whatever is going on. Then there's the major plot holes in the movie. I won't give too many away for anyone that actually wants to still see the movie despite what I say here, but the first example comes pretty early on with that science experiment. They don't really go over what the experiment is, unless they did and I couldn't understand them because they mumbled too much. However, this would at first seem to have something to do with the big twist half-way through the film. It apparently doesn't as they discover during the last third of the movie. So what did the experiment do? Speaking of that big twist, it's incredibly predictable. I saw it coming from about 5 or less minutes into the movie. Heck, even people I talked to after watching the movie that haven't seen it yet said they expect that to happen with the character. It only makes sense since the previous films did the same thing. So why try to make it seem like this big deal when that character discovers it? As for the first two-thirds of the movie, they're pretty boring and don't really catch your attention when there's no Terminators on screen.
So should you see Terminator Salvation? Unless you're a die-hard Terminator fan that has to see every Terminator movie, I'd recommend skipping this one. It's an absolute mess and fails at everything it tries to do. Even as a fun action movie, it fails. Especially when you compare it to other action films that have already come out this year like Taken and Crank 2.
The movie opens with our hero, Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), being put to death due to causing the deaths of a few soldiers in the field. Once his procedure begins, some text appears explaining what is going on in the year 2018. Afterwards, Marcus along with some of his fellow soldiers are out in a field killing some Terminators. They go out searching and find something, but Marcus is told to go above ground and find out why his comrades aren't responding. Once he arrives above ground, he discovers them dead due to the surrounding Terminators. He takes control of the helicopter in hopes of destroying at least a few, but fails as the others are killed in a giant explosion. Once he goes back to base, he's briefed on his next mission assignment along with accepting to do a science experiment. His mission requires him to find John Connor (Christian Bale) who is searching for his father, Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin). So that's exactly what he sets out to do.
Let's get the shortest part over with so I can talk about the more fun part of the movie. All I have to say is good about this film is the last third of the movie. It's fun, action packed, and what the movie should have been all along. I guess I can also say that it was nice throwing in some fan service here and there.
Where to begin with all the terrible crap in this movie. Well, before that, I should inform anyone bothering to read this that by the time I first watched this film, I hadn't seen any of the previous three films in the series. However, I did watch it with someone that has to try and make up for that. With that said, this movie can get pretty confusing. It's almost too fast-paced during its action sequences. If you so much as blink or look away for a second or two, you'll be lost in whatever is going on. Then there's the major plot holes in the movie. I won't give too many away for anyone that actually wants to still see the movie despite what I say here, but the first example comes pretty early on with that science experiment. They don't really go over what the experiment is, unless they did and I couldn't understand them because they mumbled too much. However, this would at first seem to have something to do with the big twist half-way through the film. It apparently doesn't as they discover during the last third of the movie. So what did the experiment do? Speaking of that big twist, it's incredibly predictable. I saw it coming from about 5 or less minutes into the movie. Heck, even people I talked to after watching the movie that haven't seen it yet said they expect that to happen with the character. It only makes sense since the previous films did the same thing. So why try to make it seem like this big deal when that character discovers it? As for the first two-thirds of the movie, they're pretty boring and don't really catch your attention when there's no Terminators on screen.
So should you see Terminator Salvation? Unless you're a die-hard Terminator fan that has to see every Terminator movie, I'd recommend skipping this one. It's an absolute mess and fails at everything it tries to do. Even as a fun action movie, it fails. Especially when you compare it to other action films that have already come out this year like Taken and Crank 2.