Early Reviews - Terminator Salvation at 14% on Rotton Tomatoes

[I Bloom]

The director goes by McG. What did you expect?

I still kind of liked it. Any post apocalyptic movie gets my money no matter how bad.

IBloom

 

[Joe G.]

"We actually don't even understand how our own, "natural" consciousness “works” and what it actually is. How could we even speak about building an artificial one?!"

Well, it is a future story. The fundamental basis is that the machines have begun "building" and "designing" themselves. Once they reach that point, all bets are off.

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

I was expecting a stupid action movie and really looking forward to it. I enjoyed Charlie's Angels 2. I liked XXX. I love post apocalyptic.

What I can't stand are characters with the IQs of an earthworm with down's syndrome.

and the constant preaching on things I completely disagree with. "What makes us human is that we bury our dead. Skynet doesn't." Really? Really? That's what makes us human the fact that we bury our dead? I guess that rules out thousands of tribal cultures. At every step their definition of human seemed to be what makes someone culturally American. And they never. NEVER. acknowledged that even Marcus was human. Even though he had a brain and heart they still treated him like a disposable microwave.

Too much synthetic bigotry. Preaching compassion while viewing sentient feeling creatures all around them as a toaster oven loses all moral credibility in my books.

The moral foundation for the film was built on bigotry and intolerance. The plot foundation was less sturdy than most SciFi original films. The characters, writing, acting and direction was on par with a JrHi school play. All of the good cinematography and camera direction is in the trailer. In fact I would recommend just watching the trailer. You get a pretty cool little short film that makes more sense than the movie.

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Also it should be noted that I got to see it for free. So all of this ranting is based on a free screening. And I had no other plans for the evening. So I didn't even have anything else to do at the time.