It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

A Disappointing Continuation

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

After the fail of T3, this movie gives the Terminator serious some life support. The kid who played Kyle Reese is a stud. RIP u good actor.

If the first two films were not made; just okay. But there's something missing in the film.

In the prologue we see a convicted killer, Marcus Wright, being asked if his body can be used for an unspecified project after his execution… this is in 2003. We then jump forward to 2018 and John Connor is part of a team infiltrating a Skynet facility; they discover plans for the T-800 series of Terminators before everything goes wrong. They are attacked and Connor is the sole survivor from his squad. He is taken to the resistance headquarters where he learns of a plan to attack Skynet after a means of deactivating the machines is discovered. Shortly after the attack on the facility a prisoner, Marcus, escapes. He makes his way to Los Angeles where he meets the young Kyle Rhys. He heads out of town with Kyle and Star, a young mute girl, but the latter to are captured and taken to Skynet Headquarters in San Francisco. Marcus later meets resistance pilot Blair Williams who takes him to Connor… here a shocking discovery is made about Marcus. With the attack on Skynet imminent Connor determines that he must save Kyle before the attack.This film is very different to the previous instalments; apart from the prologue it takes place after Judgement Day and John Connor is a leading resistance fighter not merely a target of time travelling Terminators. This post-apocalyptic setting made it feel very different. The action was impressive and almost non-stop; unfortunately this was at the cost of character depth. The story itself is interesting enough and I liked the twist concerning Marcus, probably the film's most interesting character. Sam Worthington does a solid job in the role and Christian Bale was equally solid as Connor. The rest of the cast were pretty good although I was a bit disappointed that Michael Ironside was somewhat underused as the leader of the resistance. The CGI used to make a T-800 look like a 1980's Arnie was rather fun. Overall I'd say this is a decent enough sci-fi action film but I preferred the first three.

Post apocalyptic Los Angles. The machines have risen. The year is 2018 in "Terminator Salvation".Let me start by saying that I really enjoyed this film, it was a nice change of pace for something different,so I'm glad that they chose to do the future war. Trouble was director McG didn't have these three ingredients: First- there was no Arnold.Second- Setting the time frame of the future war in 2018 instead of 2029 sort of ticked off fans. And last but not least, Third- Giving this a toned down PG-13 rating instead of an R rating of what the audience expected.Having said that, I still enjoyed it for what it was.This may contain some spoilers.Marcus Wright, the guy we see in the beginning, of the film set in 2003 is a convict on death-row about be executed for a crime that he possibly committed. But before he is committed he is ask to donate his body to science but it's really Cyberdyne Systems.Fast forward to the future war of 2018, Marcus wakes up in some type of bunker as he exits he sees the world is a cold dark wasteland. He later teams up with a young Kyle Reese as they embark on a journey to find John Connor. Marcus and John form an uneasy alliance for John learns Marcus is cyborg, but uses him to help infiltrate Sky-net's compound. It's flawed but, I think it was at least a little better than T3.I give it a 6/10 a cool fun action movie. If your a fan of the franchise I recommend it.