Sunday, May 31, 2009

Summer Movies, Part 3: Terminator: Salvation

I saw this movie last week, but it took me awhile to process and objectively review this film. Coming out of the theater, I immediately dismissed its lack of plot and further development of the Terminator universe. My main beef with the movie was its choppy and out of sync editing, with little concrete transition from scene to scene. At some points it did make it difficult to even follow the story. But I guess that's what you get with a music video director...oh wait, I forgot, he did direct the Charlie's Angels movies, my mistake (you can tell how much I liked them).

I really don't want to spend a lot of time on this review, but I thought the acting of both Sam Worthington and Christian Bale was spot on, and I don't remember Ron Howard's daughter being that attractive. The action scenes were good, but again there was little underlying plot to tie them together.

I read online about some potential alternate endings, and they were actually where I thought Terminator was going. The cliche statements were ill placed and not delivered well, and the digitally enhanced Governator was not necessary.

And don't even get me started on a battlefield heart transplant with possibly not the best donor (from a blood type/tissue matching perspective...did no else think of that?!?).....

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