Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

McG. Really? That was the best director you could obtain to act as your salvation for this franchise? Mc-flipping-G!? Christ. Let me clear something up, Salvation isn't necessarily a bad film. If it wasn't attached to a franchise it would work quite well, but alas it's got the old Terminator name magnetically attracted to the title and so was doomed from the start. Set after 'Judgment Day', John Connor leads the resistance and encounters Marcus, a miraculous survivor who was condemned to a death sentence, who claims that John's past father Kyle Reese is captured by Skynet. Blah blah blah, convoluted convoluted convoluted, makes little to no sense. Ever since the third chapter, the whole paradoxical storyline is illogically derivative that each instalment just adds to the complexity of the plot. Instead of focusing on John Connor, which is clearly the strongest element to this story played aggressively by Bale, we are introduced to Marcus. A character, that was utterly destroyed by the terrible marketing (I mean that trailer...), who's sole purpose is to convey the message of the film. Illustrating the boundary between the end of humanity and the start of artificial intelligence. Good intentions, but executed heavy handedly. Plus, considering he is supposed to be a conflicted personality, my word is he ridiculously uninteresting. Worthington, Yelchin and Bonham Carter all give fine performances, but the expositional script prevent them from shining through the rusty apocalyptic environment. Bleak, dingy and dull, nothing here has life. The action set pieces, again, were fine and completely watchable. The visual effects for the most part are decent, where the sound mixing of robotic noises really elevate the futuristic world. Despite these "fine" neutral points, it's a generic film that feels generically generic in all its full genericism. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to consume your time with flashy futuristic action set pieces. Salvation, you've been terminated.

Wow, this is a decent film- I was thoroughly entertained and this despite going in with low expectations. McG manages a great color palette and the action sequences are awesome. Sure, this isn't as great as The Terminator or Terminator 2 but it is surely better than T3 and a lot better than the other works in the cannon. Both Bale and Worthington are fantastic. Go watch Terminator salvation now.

This was ok...a lot of bad reviews out there but I enjoyed it for the most part after I removed myself from the Terminator franchise and just took it for what it was. Its loud, fast, loaded with CGI, a bit of Road Warrior, a bit War of the Worlds and a bit Transformers with ginormous OTT terminator machines (they were terrible.) Less Christian Bale than I expected after all that media hype and press surrounding him. He was actually kind of a secondary character. I enjoyed Marcus's storyline and Sam Worthington's portrayal of him. He doesn't know what he is but come on, this is meant to be a big twist but not really, its more the anti-twist. What did he think happened to him on death row after he signed his body over to Skynet and woke up in the future? Blah. Enjoyed seeing Sarah Conner on tapes. I liked the tie ins to the original story very much. I also enjoyed Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese, portraying one of my favourite heroes of all time from the original Terminator ...sigh...Anton.

So I made my decision, John Connor is a major dushbag. All good and mighty and very smart and sensitive robots must die to defend this sucker :)) There is a moment in the movie where John Connor goes to fight alone with Skynet and when his wife asks :"What I am supposed to say to your men when they ask about you" he replies "I'll be back" , well at that moment if Arnold was watching I think he laughed his pants off , i mean it was so clumsy and stupid coming from John Connor mouth, that i barely could watch.First of all if Sam Worthington and Christian Bale hadn't played in this movie I think IMDb would have deleted the movie from the movie list :)))). Sam Worthington gets the role very nice and he is a delight to watch, hot hot, but Christian Bale is like the comic version of all Terminators until now, I think for a parody he would have been a good choice but for this part it was a rather weak choice. I tell you when he says "I'll be back " you cant stop laughing. Its like awkward, so out of place that it takes all the serious action that was happening until then out of your mind and makes it comedy like.Watching this I can tell that The one from 84 and 91 there are Oscar material, the rest are just shallow copies. But thank God that at least this movie had Sam W and Christian Bale they saved the movie just for being present cos the roles and the action are just so weak. I think Sam W is thinking watching this movie "what the heck was I thinking?".Another tip, hold one for the first hour cos i was close to stop and go to sleep but I kept hoping that Sam W aka MArcus will kiss the girl. That basically kept me going. :) And again, John Connor, oh my god, do robots with their high IQ really die to defend him??? he's like totally useless, you do more stuff and get things happen when the robots intervene. So I give the movie a 3, but because Bale and Sam are there I give it a 4. :)