Terminator Salvation

Directed by, McG

Quality Fresh.

“Come with me if you want to live”, oh the nostalgia. This movie was full of it. I stepped into the renovating theater i work at very excited to see this film but at the same time dreading the letdown I asumed I was going to witness. Bad directing, bad acting, bad script, tons of corny moments. This is what the majority of reviews I read online and in magazins had said. So this is what I went in thinking I would see, Christan Bale playing Batman... I mean John Connor fighting to save the human race while stiffly acting out a terrible script. But as i watched things became more clear. This was not going to be what i read. What it would be was a enjoyable movie going experience.

The movie did not start out good. The first 25-30 minutes are actually like the reviewers say. Which was defiantly not good. The beginning should be one of the best parts of the movie. The film begins with Marcus Wright(Sam Worthington), a man on death row minutes before his sentence will be carried out. The scene did not please me. I couldn’t tell if it was the director McG’s fault or perhaps it was the script writers or maybe even the actors. The movie then did what every sequel does, whitch makes me mad. It told us what had happened in the other movies. They never do this "retelling" well. Its always a actor or actress listing off things that have happened in the previous movies. Them saying it never feels natural it just feels very forced. Or it’s a bunch of title listing of things as well, And this movie has both. I sigh just typeing that. I understand that you need to retell these things for people who have not seen the past films but I think they should try a little bit harder to make it seem more natural. I mean in my dayly life i dont randomly tell people what happond to me yesterday. I do when they ask or when it comes up.

After about 25 minutes of things making me more and more frustrated, like can we try to think of a cleverer way to kill a Terminator then dropping something heavy on it? I found the movie began to get more enjoyable. The directing seemed to be getting better as well as camera movement which had been making me mad i dont know why it was makeing me mad the camera just kept doing really odd things. Also the dialog felt more realistic. The action scenes started getting intense to the point were I couldn’t blink because I was afraid I would miss something.

A really fun thing about this movie was all the references to the previous films. It was all verynostalgic. From John Connor saying, “I’ll be back”, to Kyle Resse(Anton Yelchin) saying, “Come with me if you want to live!”, and defintly the CGI Arnold Schwarzenegger. All of these provided a great tingly feeling inside me. Kind of like seeing Leonard Nimoy in the recent Star Trek Reboot. It just gives you that special wow feeling that makes you smile and might give you goose bumps.

Speaking of Anton Yelchin, I think he is really going to go places. He was great in this film. As well as others such as Charlie Bartlett and Star Trek. Pretty soon I’m sure we will see him up on the Oscar stage accepting an award for some great performance.

I have always loved the end of the Terminator movies, except the third movie, they are always sentimental and sad. For instance, in the first film we have Sara caressing her swollen belly, in the second we have John shedding a tear for the loss the Terminator who he befriended, in this one I won’t give anything away but you still have that feel.

So in the end, Terminator Salvation was a solid film. Not as good as the first and second movies but defiantly up there with them in my books. People said that because of director McG, the films fate would be the murder of the franchise and the dvd in the 5 doller bin at walieworld. But what Terminator teaches us is that “Fate is what you make” and I feel McG has made a good flick and has the potential to make the next Terminator film even better then this one and fix the mistakes he had. Time will tell. So in the end, I’d say Terminator Salvation was a loaf of pretty Fresh bread.