3/4  Fun.
A pleasurable fourth installment to the science-fiction saga. The action sequences and special effects are breathtaking as well as Anton Yelchin and Sam Worthington's performances as Kyle Reese and Marcus Wright respectively; it's a good t... (read full)

3/4  Terminator: Rise of the Machines
Terminator: Rise of the Machines

(Run time: min. - Directed by: - Starring: Christian Bale)

Let me start by saying that this is the best Terminator movie in the series and that includes the original, hands down. And that’s a strong... (read full)

2/4  Not Special, but not crap
Big fan of the first two and third one was alright, but number 4 hits uneven ground. Cool action and other neat things, but not as thrilling as the others. Very different film all around than the previous ones was a plus. In the end it wa... (read full)

2/4  No dice
Well im gonna start off by saying I love the first 2 terminator's,I think they are some of the top if not the top of sci fi cinema The third one lacked alot of things but did finish with A strong ending This one on the other hand was A ave... (read full)

3/4  He actually backed.
I must tell you, that this was probably the movie that went to see with less espectations in my life. I mean. Lets be honest. McG? Part IV? Bale a-g-a-i-n? Dude. Anyway. I liked the flick more than i'd have imagined. There are a few things... (read full)

2/4  Terminator Salvation
In 1984 The Terminator gave birth to the action genre. In 1991 Terminator 2 became the best film of the action genre. With such high standards, Terminator 3 was bound to fail though it wasn't a complete disaster. Now with Terminator Salvat... (read full)

3/4  Terminator Salvation Quick Review
Is it better than number two? I'm not sure. I'll have to think about it for a little while still. But, it's pretty damn good!

2/4  Terminator Salvation Quick Review
Not worth seeing. I am a fan of the first 3 (yes, even the third one). This is just plain bad. The robots are cool and the action sequences are truly amazing. It can't save a crap script, flaws, and stupid plot points. Blah.

2/5 The Alien vs Predator of the Terminator series.
  by P. Jirasek (Chicago, IL)
A few good ideas that were just terribly, terribly executed.

The reverse time traveler. I enjoyed that idea. Sam Worthington, con on death row is executed, but before dying signs his life away to Cyberdyne systems, wakes up in the future, and spends it trying to piece together what happened. Cool.

Beyond that...what the heck?
The first two movies (the REAL terminator movies) had this ever present mood to them. Mass human genocide was coming and there was nothing that they could do about it. People were going to die and it was just...really, depressing and threatening and remained this heavy presence just over the horizon.

But with Salvation...the apocalypse comes and...it's no big deal. Apparently much of the military managed to survive (chain of command included)John Connor is just a cog in the system who spouts gibberish over the radio, and... his father from the future is a fun loving, happy go lucky rogue...
None of which connects to the previous movies very well.

There is no emotional connection in this movie. The characters are just...boring. They're cardboard cut outs of people, people created to serve a purpose, but never given a chance to ever seem like real people. Hot American Indian chick, plot device to show Sam Worthington's character's humanity, and predictably help him out of a tight spot. John Connor (Christan Bale), auto distrusts all machines which makes no sense given the previous movies. And we can't even go into all of the stupid mistakes that he makes for someone that was trained as a soldier and should know what the terminators are capable of. Bryce Howard playing John Connor's wife... Why does John Connor need a wife? Why does his wife play no conceivable purpose in the story whatsoever other than being there?
And could someone please tell me why Common was even in the movie other than he wanted to be? He must have something like 2 lines.

I think it's a steaming pile of crap. But I'll admit people have disagreed with me.

If you ignore the previous movies and take it as a stand alone. It's okay...maybe. I just feel that the studios have done to terminator what they did with the Aliens franchise. The good writer/director leaves and then the studios go right ahead and f- it up.

If you liked Alien vs Predator (all 5 of you) than you might enjoy this movie. The rest stay away...stay far away.



5/5 full price, fair price
  by M. Galloway (Hinesburg, VT USA)
I want to pay full price for this movie. Do I have any options? Why is the price always falling? Full price does not seem so unreasonable.

2/5 DVD is dead?
  by DeAd MiKe (Brooklyn)
I really don't see the need for Blu-Ray. It's not like a different form of media like DVD was to VHS. Both DVD and Blu-Ray are digital. The difference? Blu-Ray can hold more data. Who cares? My DVDs look great with my upscaling DVD player (using HDMI), so I don't really see the point for Blu-Ray.

Now, I really wanted to buy the Director's Cut DVD of this film, but it will only be on Blu-Ray. Does the studio think I'm going to buy a Blu-Ray player just for 'Terminator Salvation?' LOL no. I didn't even do that for 'The Dark Knight.'

So, all the studio is doing is losing money by forcing me to have to download the Director's Cut, rather than purchase the DVD (which I wanted to do, since I have all of the other 'Terminator' films). So, it looks like they'll be losing a lot of money with this stupid stunt of theirs. People who don't have Blu-Ray aren't going to buy a player just for a movie like this, so this was a bad idea. Instead, people who want to see the Director's Cut are just going to find alternative methods to do so, which will completely cut the studio out of the profit.

Good going.

1/5 Not Suspenseful + Not engaging and exiciting as Terminator 2
  by Cestmoi

- The special effects are not as exciting as Terminator 2.

- There's no suspense in this movie. Terminator 2 is suspenseful from the beginning till the end.

- There are a lot of actions but they're not engaging as those of Terminator 2 either.

- It was supposed to be touching at the end when someone scarified to give his heart to another person but I was not moved. I don't know it's because of bad directing or acting. It might be both.


1/5 DVD gets hosed again!!!
  by Bill J. Thomann (Port Charlotte, Fl United States)
Blu-ray gets a 2 disc director's cut while dvd gets only a pos single disc with only the theatrical cut. Getting tired of having some studios try to shove blu ray down my throat by withholding all good special features and added footage. DVD is still the top selling format. Wish they'd just give us the quality of discs we used to get.