Well, all the reviews were bad. I had been excited, but all the signs were pointing to a massive disappointment. Like so many blockbusters that have gone before it. They were even saying that Christian Bale was no longer the man he once was. That he'd become stale.
Well, they were all totally wrong. Terminator Salvation was totally freaking awesome. Constant violence and fighting of every kind. No plot to speak of, but so much good CGI and so many battles. The acting was good too. Christian Bale was great and worked well as John Connor. Sam Worthington was beautiful.
I can't understand what all the reviewers were upset about. The film struck me as beeing absolutely, 100% what it claimed to be. It was like a two hour preview, which is often all I want from an action movie. And it had a lot of violence. Which is all you'd expect from the previews and all you'd expect from a movie about the final war between humans and machines. It could have gone all Matrix Reloaded, but that would have sucked.
I think I can recommend it to everyone who loves movie violence and who resents the various futile attempts to inject any plot or seriousness into action movies. What great fun it was.
See I was at least hoping for good violence. But it wasn’t. I think the bit on the bridge was pretty cool. But most of it had potential that it never realised.
McG should direct romantic comedies. That’s about it.
Tom / 6:22pm / 5 June 2009
Thanks. Now I’m looking forward to it.
Do you know “Kung Fu Hustle”? I discovered it yesterday. I’m sure you’d like it.
Jason Grossman / 6:53pm / 5 June 2009
There were quite a few dumb bits which I didn’t talk about. But, of the violence, I much enjoyed these parts (which is most of it):
The beginning battle and the final battle could definitely have been bigger and more expensive. And it wasn’t the most original violence in history. But anything with Terminators and giant robot assassins is going to be pretty great. Perhaps I’m easily pleased though.
Ryan / 12:58am / 6 June 2009