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(1 - 50) of 52 OFCS Rating: 27% Rotten Page   12   > Next 2.5/4 "Starts off strong but resorts to one headache-inducing and repetitive action sequence too many."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari 3.5/5 "As with junk food, no matter how much you know it's bad for you, you can't help but enjoy it anyway."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke "feels more like a stopgap than a return to the franchise's past form... relentlessly (and uninspiringly) efficient - like a sleek new model Terminator."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel 3/5 "This time out, the studio has gone for stuntwork. Here's hoping that, once the inevitable follow-up hits screens, there'll be more vision and less violence."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 2/4 "Salvation is a cold, blunt summer movie misfire, infatuated with mindless explosions like an infant with fecal matter...a lumbering, joyless detour into unappetizing Hollywood recycling."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   Brian Orndorf "...sometimes feels like just another link in a chain to nowhere."   PopMatters   Chris Barsanti B- "There is a wellspring of potential in the franchise for the right filmmaker to generate a "Starship Troopers" kind of frisky movie that goes beyond the constraints of spectacle-generated entertainment toward sophisticated sci-fi satire. Until that time co"   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "It's late in Terminator Salvation when Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his much-hyped non-appearance."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs A- "A blockbuster that satisfies both the die-hard aficionado and the newcomer to the Terminator brand, with just the right mix of action and self-aware humor to overcome the film's emotional deficiencies."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 3/4 "The story is straightforward without being boring. The characters are fully realized."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 1.5/4 "The Terminator series grinds to a distinct and palpable halt with this inert, flat-out worthless entry..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "Dark, noisy and unimaginative."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "The emotional element takes a backseat to the special effects, but Terminator Salvation is pulpy and fun as a rousing summer diversion, and more than respectable for being the fourth part in a twenty-five-year-old series."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 3/5 "McG no es James Cameron, pero por suerte dejó atrás Los Ángeles de Charlie e hizo una película de acción en serio."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio C "Suffers from pedestrian dialogue and a surfeit of bad plot devices ranging from the merely too-convenient to the laugh-out-loud preposterous."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 "By the time it looks like Richard Dawson's Running Man crew created another stunt body double to get audiences all riled up, all the nostaglia has been sucked out thanks to a script unworthy of a direct-to-video sequel."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C "Big, handsome, loud and dumb -- and it dishonors everything that preceded it."   AMCtv.com   Eugene Novikov "Solemn and ash-hued"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce C "Does pretty much what you'd expect but little more, and its sullen efficiency doesn't make up for its lack of imagination."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "A revved-up and conflicted sci-fi drama of unrelenting carnage trying desperately to peddle a message of heart."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat "Cormac McCarthy for the Transformers crowd."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 3/4 "This is everything a good summer movie should be and, while it does not dishonor the Cameron chapters of the saga, neither does it prove to be an indispensable adjunct to them."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "weighed down with so much grit and gloom that there's no fun left"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 2/5 ""Terminator Salvation" promised moviegoers a war between the human heart and the cold, cruel efficiency of machines. So why then is it so mechanical itself, so good at repetition, so preprogrammed and clunky?"   MSN Movies   James Rocchi 6/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 5/10 "L'artillerie déployé est, certes, imposante, mais se révèle déficiente lorsque vient le temps de générer ne serait-ce qu'un tant soit peu de suspense ou de réflexion"   Panorama   Jean-François Vandeuren 5/10 "It neither adds to nor subtracts from the mythology. And with Judgment Day upon us, there's no more tension, nothing compelling left to explore."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 2/4 "This ambitious redefinition of a franchise is also loud, clumsy and, in the end, doesn't make much sense."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 2.5/5 "formoylaiki problepsimotita toy senarioy, poy me tis ftines strofes toy, afinei to timoni stin eikonografisi, i opoia, an kai ploysioparoha entyposiaki, den einai da kai orama oramatisti"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 3/5 "Terminated."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 4.5/5 "I will not apologize for giving this movie a strong Matinee with Snacks rating. I came out of it all pumped and gleeful and satisfied, and if anyone wants much more than that from a Terminator movie, well, it also has some freaking great sequences and ef"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2/5 "the whole ordeal made me fantasize about building a time machine so I could send a cyborg into the past to terminate McG's mother before she could give birth to him"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 3/4 "While the post-apocalyptic environment and the action sequences put together by director McG are effective, they lack a sense of fun."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest C+ "While some of its demographic may be happy to see the return of the man-machine apocalypse, much of the writing...is hokey as hell."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "The trouble with Terminator: Salvation ... [is that] there's a yawning void where its emotional center should be."   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh C "Terminator Salvation boasts impressive setpieces that provide eye-popping visual scale, but the story so badly lacks scope that the film feels small and, ultimately, inconsequential."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[T]he hugest of the movie's many problems: [it's] sentimental... It's damn near close to character rape, what McG, Brancato, and Ferris force Christian Bale's Connor to do..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "No amount of explosions or shootouts can match the genuine, bite-your-nails suspense of a single life perpetually in danger from deadly cyborgs who will never stop coming until their objective is complete."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B "Worthington is electrifying as Marcus a character who raises questions about what it means to be human but provides a definitive answer about what it means to be a star."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow "Strives for bleak gravity with misguided fervor."   The Screengrab   Nick Schager 1/5 "That said, the real problem with "Terminator Salvation," when all is said and done, is that it never for a single moment makes a convincing argument for its own existence."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "Essentially everything here is macho-posturing eye candy."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "High craft in the service of an oppressively dull story."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves "No small tragedy, this is the first Terminator film without a heart."   House Next Door   Rob Humanick C+ "It's a far more compelling world than a narrative."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux B+ "As you would expect, this is a sci-fi war movie of man against machine and there is plenty of action, but also some food for thought."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten "... little more than big machine spectacle with a little lip service paid to humanity, identity and free will, which are not exactly themes so much as plot points."   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker 2/5 "applies big-budget defibrillator paddles to the hulking franchise but can't breathe fresh life into the now 25-year-old concept."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 7/10 "Pow! Blast! Annhilate! The action-packed, bullet-riddled popcorn pictures have officially arrived."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger  (1 - 50) of 52 OFCS Rating: 27% Rotten Page   12   > Next