Click to play videoCast: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood
Direction: McG
Terminator Salvation with its endless action scenes and big explosions feels more like a video game than a movie. The rusty script, involves a continuing battle between man and machine, except that this time round it's set in 2018.
The world lies in ruins inhabited by giant robots, and self-prophesied leader of the human resistance John Connor – played by Christian Bale – is still delivering dull radio broadcasts.
On this adventure, JC must locate teenager Kyle Reese and infiltrate Skynet Headquarters. By way of new characters, you have the mysterious warrior Marcus Wright (played by Sam Worthington), a former Death Row inmate who harbors a dark secret.
Packed with fast-paced action scenes in which characters are stalked by massive robots, chased by super-fast motorbikes, and attacked by snake-like mechanical creatures in a lake, Terminator Salvation has little in terms of plot and lots by way of exciting set-pieces. Unfortunately, that doesn't a good film make.
This fourth installment in the Terminator series has almost none of that fearless spirit that made the first two movies – particularly T2 – so much fun. It's remarkably shot, though, in varying shades of grey, khaki and sepia; and it knocks you on the head with its never-ending assault of high-octane action. If that's your thing, give this film a chance.
I'll go with two out of five and at best an average rating for Terminator Salvation.
Judging by Christian Bale's permanent scowl in this film, I can only assume it was as difficult making this film as it was watching it.
Rating: 2 / 5 (Average)
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