Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Sep 19, 2023 1.5/4

This rather cold exercise contains a synthesized quality and feels like it was executed by an artificial intelligence.

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Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies Aug 25, 2022 4/5

I liked “Terminator Salvation” and while it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, I think it has a place in the series.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Nov 29, 2020 6/10

No tricky time travel finds its way into the plot - and, perhaps, such complexities are exactly the ideas that are missing.

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Jason Best Movie Talk Nov 22, 2020

Bale is dull and humourless and lacking in charisma, and the lumbering McG, at the wheel of the unstoppable juggernaut that is a Hollywood summer blockbuster, proves as much of a numbskull as you'd expect.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 26, 2020 1.0/4.0

Who would've ever thought I'd be writing a review saying that Arnold Schwarzenegger would be preferable to Christian Bale?

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Sergio Benítez Espinof Apr 23, 2020

It serves as an OK entertainment with a script that is better not to give much account. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Lisa Laman The Spool Jan 18, 2020

Put simply, Salvation has bold concepts and an interesting tone but the characters just aren't all that compelling.

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Nikki Baughan Roll Credits Oct 30, 2019 4/5

[A]n explosive, exhilarating, entertaining summer blockbuster.

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Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 6, 2019 1.5/4

A soulless, cynical film, designed only to mine a 25-year-old cash cow.

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Micheal Compton Bowling Green Daily News May 16, 2019 C

As lifeless as its cyborg villains.

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Megan Basham WORLD Oct 30, 2018

While the sights and sounds of the Skynet military forces hunting down the rag-tag army are all that an adrenaline-junkie could wish for, the human element falls flat.

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Eileen Jones The eXile Oct 30, 2018

I seriously thought my eardrums had burst a couple of times during Terminator Salvation. The movie sounds like jets crashing into a junkyard, one after another...

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Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online Sep 12, 2017 B

It was good, but not great.

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Shaun Davis SciFiNow Sep 8, 2017 3/5

Terminator Salvation is a loud exercise in post-apocalyptic mayhem. When the dust settles and the action subsides, an intriguing story flourishes.

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Steve Dollar Stop Smiling Aug 23, 2017

I think McG just wants to show he can spend more money blowing up more stuff more better than Michael Bay. And that's just McDumb.

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Martin Tsai Critic's Notebook Oct 7, 2015

"Terminator Salvation" could almost pass as a sequel to "Mad Max," which goes to show just how everyone involved is merely going through the motions.

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Will Leitch Deadspin Jun 22, 2013 C

This is big empty turgid gunk, coming more from the brainless Transformers school than the Cameron Big Art Pop philoso-candy cloth.

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Adam Ross The Aristocrat Sep 29, 2012 2/5

Everything that made the Terminator films great is absent in this film. The violence, the terror, the basic fear is gone ... In this film, children defeat a terminator.

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Ali Gray TheShiznit.co.uk Sep 29, 2012 2/5

Once the screeching din has died down, you won't recall a single line of dialogue, note of music or plot point that wasn't punctuated with an explosion.

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Jeffrey Overstreet Filmwell Jun 15, 2012 C-

This franchise, like its villains, has become more machine than man.

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