Looks like Terminator Salvation is a flop with the critics

It currently has an average of just 34% over at rotten tomatos. It's average score out of 10 amongst critics is 5.1, and of 170 reviews 108 were bad.

The consensus:

"With storytelling as robotic as the film's iconic villains, Terminator Salvation offers plenty of great effects but lacks the heart of the original films."

Apparently it's very strong from an artistic standpoint but the plot, characters and storytelling are all very poor. It's a shame really, as this was my second biggest must-see movie of the year. I'll still go give it a chance, but my expectations have been considerably lowered. After Christian Bale said they were trying to give the franchise the Dark Knight treatment the last thing i was expecting was a drab story and poor characters.

I saw it last night and I liked it. Good action scenes.

Just from watching the trailers I could tell it's a cold empty action movie.
I'll watch it when it comes to the cheap theatres in a couple months.

Lets be honest here, the trailers were less than impressive, ever since they started coming out, and if you're comparing it to the Dark Knight in terms of story, TDK didnt have much of one at all. The only saving grace of TDK was Heath Ledger's Joker.Allicrombie

Lets be honest here, the trailers were less than impressive, ever since they started coming out, and if you're comparing it to the Dark Knight in terms of story, TDK didnt have much of one at all. The only saving grace of TDK was Heath Ledger's Joker.Allicrombie

Lets be honest here, the trailers were less than impressive, ever since they started coming out, and if you're comparing it to the Dark Knight in terms of story, TDK didnt have much of one at all. The only saving grace of TDK was Heath Ledger's Joker.Allicrombie

[QUOTE="Allicrombie"]Lets be honest here, the trailers were less than impressive, ever since they started coming out, and if you're comparing it to the Dark Knight in terms of story, TDK didnt have much of one at all. The only saving grace of TDK was Heath Ledger's Joker.Candy-Star

I saw it and I liked it, it didn't feel like a Terminator movie so to say, but it had plenty of action. Over all it was pretty good.

the movie was crappy , bad acting ,bad story , the only good thing about it is the special effects , other than that first two were waaaay better

it was a good ACTION movie. nothing more nothing less.

A filmaficionado would never have a critic decide what is good and what is bad for them. They just would have to see it for themselves and decide on their own.

Critics suck..and terminator salvation kinda sucked as well...but it didnt suck as a action movie..it just sucked as a terminator movie.

It can't be worse than wolverine....

The critics have that at around the same score. Oh no, I was hoping Terminator was going to be brilliant.

Apparently bale says "I will be back".....

WHY!

WHY DO THEY DO THIS! :cry:

It can't be worse than wolverine....

The critics have that at around the same score. Oh no, I was hoping Terminator was going to be brilliant.

Apparently bale says "I will be back".....

WHY!

WHY DO THEY DO THIS! :cry:

hip-hop-cola2

I hated it

It can't be worse than wolverine....

The critics have that at around the same score. Oh no, I was hoping Terminator was going to be brilliant.

Apparently bale says "I will be back".....

WHY!

WHY DO THEY DO THIS! :cry:

i saw it yesterday, was good. my local newspaper gave it 4/4 too

I saw it on Friday and thought it was pretty good. It was certainly no T1 or T2 but it was a lot better than that T3 garbage. I don't know what the critics mean about no compelling characters because I thought Marcus Wright was a very compelling character. I hope they can bring him back for T5. Overall I give the movie 8/10. Better than Wolverine, but not better than Star Trek. omfg_its_dally

How would you rate wolverine....

I saw it on Friday and thought it was pretty good. It was certainly no T1 or T2 but it was a lot better than that T3 garbage. I don't know what the critics mean about no compelling characters because I thought Marcus Wright was a very compelling character. I hope they can bring him back for T5. Overall I give the movie 8/10. Better than Wolverine, but not better than Star Trek. omfg_its_dally

ONLY Sam Worthington did a decent job here.

[QUOTE="omfg_its_dally"]I saw it on Friday and thought it was pretty good. It was certainly no T1 or T2 but it was a lot better than that T3 garbage. I don't know what the critics mean about no compelling characters because I thought Marcus Wright was a very compelling character. I hope they can bring him back for T5. Overall I give the movie 8/10. Better than Wolverine, but not better than Star Trek. hip-hop-cola2

How would you rate wolverine....

It goes without saying, but I'm sure everybody knows that without the word "Terminator" this movie would be a B-action flick that barely gets any box office receipts at all. This was the first movie in my entire life that I ever walked out of :) . I stayed the first hour and got to the part where [spoiler] John Reese and the sidekick (who oh is a black might that induce racial criticism?) are stuck in the cage, and Marcus Flint rescues the very unattractive lady from a bunch of humans who seem to be evil in the midst of a war [/spoiler] and then I just up and left.

Granted, I had somewhere to be and I thought that I'll just maybe watch it at a friend's house three months from now, so no biggie. Makes you realize that Terminator 3 wasn't all that bad huh? And heck even X-men: the overrated Wolverine files was better (granted, I haven't seen Wolverine either, but I actually don't go to the theater in my country, for I'm very against their policy)

Sure, I could list all the problems with the movie, but there's no point since I just don't like these alleged "popcorn movies" or whatever, I actually want an "epic" film like Gladiator, or There Will Be Blood, or just movies that aren't silly because I've kind of outgrown them really.

I'll say this though, the characters are kind of attractive. The guy playing Reese is quite cute and the Marcus guy is also all burly and muscular and appealing. Wait, wasn't there a Marcus in that Gears of War game for the 360? Any similarities for those who have played the games? hmm...

Terminator Salvation was fairly enjoyable. Not the greatest popcorn flick of '09, but I liked it somewhat. Compared to Star Trek, I favored that over Salvation. Now, the countdown begins for Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen!

Wait, wasn't there a Marcus in that Gears of War game for the 360? Any similarities for those who have played the games? hmm...

thattotally

I wondered this as well

I saw it and enjoyed it.

I thought it was pretty mediocre, the effects were good but the characters were mostly dull, the dialogue was awful, and the story was almost non existant at times. Even the action seemed souless and dull. I liked the character Marcus, but the rest of the film was what I expected from that hack of a director McG. Also those magnetic mines would work for walking terminators, but what about the ones that fly?

I saw it and I liked it.

i just came back from seeing it, i loved it, screw what those critics say

The movie has no soul, and these days that is what a movie needs to set itself apart.

It was decent. The story didn't do much overall, but there were some cool moments. It was kind of a nice exploration into the Terminator future, but there just wasn't much in the movie. I mean [spoiler] John Connor became leader of the Resistance, but we already knew that was going to happen. They saved Kyle Reese's life, but that was kind of a "duh" thing. Marcus "died", so they didn't add any significant characters to the franchise. The Resistance HQ got destroyed, but nobody cared. They blew up one SkyNet base, but the war goes on. [/spoiler]

There just wasn't really much to the movie, there wasn't anything really unique about it. But the explosions and terminators were cool, and that's all I really went to the theatre to see, so I enjoyed it.

Also those magnetic mines would work for walking terminators, but what about the ones that fly?

Film-Guy

Fly swatters?

I liked seeing sam fisher lol.

but yeah the movie was pretty terrible.

To me, it is just a action movie and barely touch the roots of the first two counterparts. The acting was alright but while in the middle of the movie I ask myself is this even a Terminator movie anymore? Hell, it didn't even have the Terminator theme song at any part of the movie unless I missed it. The only reference to the first 2 movies were the name of the characters and the main enemy being Skynet. Overall it is a decent action movie but it barely contribute to the Terminator franchise besides showing us things we've already knew.

Lets be honest here, the trailers were less than impressive, ever since they started coming out, and if you're comparing it to the Dark Knight in terms of story, TDK didnt have much of one at all. The only saving grace of TDK was Heath Ledger's Joker.Allicrombie

*shurg* i liked it. Its number two for the T series for me with T2 being the best:)Dr_Brocoli

It can't be worse than wolverine....

The critics have that at around the same score. Oh no, I was hoping Terminator was going to be brilliant.

Apparently bale says "I will be back".....

WHY!

WHY DO THEY DO THIS! :cry:

[QUOTE="Dr_Brocoli"]*shurg* i liked it. Its number two for the T series for me with T2 being the best:)IZoMBiEI

by todays standers T 1 AND t2 ARE PRETTY MUCH PG13 -__-

i mean take out the sex scene and afew other scenes and T1 was a pure pg13 movie