Terminator Salvation (Widescreen Edition) | 
| Director: McG
Actors: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Helena Bonham Carter
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Rating:  94 reviews
Sales Rank: 24
Format: Color, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1000042736
UPC: 883929038275
EAN: 0883929038275
ASIN: B001FB55HQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: December 1, 2009 (In 11 Days)
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Terminator Salvation restores some of the balance of huge freakin' explosions and emotionally compelling plot to the Terminator series. Set entirely after the nuclear assault that left the computer system Skynet in control of the world, Terminator Salvation follows John Connor (Christian Bale) as he grapples with both murderous robots and his superiors in the resistance, who aren’t sure they believe the prophecies that Connor is destined to save humanity. Into the midst of this struggle tumbles Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington, who would later star in James Cameron’s Avatar); the last thing he remembers was being executed in prison decades before. Baffled, he falls into company with Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin, Star Trek) and a mute little girl, who soon get captured--but Wright then meets and bonds with Blair Williams (Moon Bloodgood, Eight Below), a resistance fighter who remains loyal to the confused Wright even though Connor suspects he’s not what he seems--or what he believes himself to be. Terminator Salvation isn’t the astonishing synthesis of action and feeling that either The Terminator or T2 were; the plot threads are poorly woven and fray completely in the last third of the movie. Despite this, Terminator Salvation has at least two skillfully orchestrated action sequences that will get your heart racing, and Worthington’s beguiling mixture of toughness and vulnerability gives his relationship with Bloodgood a genuine pulse. It’s imperfect, but compared with the hollow carcasses that most action movies (including Terminator 3) turn out to be, it’s worth seeing. --Bret Fetzer
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 The Alien vs Predator of the Terminator series. November 18, 2009
P. Jirasek (Chicago, IL)
A few good ideas that were just terribly, terribly executed.
The reverse time traveler. I enjoyed that idea. Sam Worthington, con on death row is executed, but before dying signs his life away to Cyberdyne systems, wakes up in the future, and spends it trying to piece together what happened. Cool.
Beyond that...what the heck?
The first two movies (the REAL terminator movies) had this ever present mood to them. Mass human genocide was coming and there was nothing that they could do about it. People were going to die and it was just...really, depressing and threatening and remained this heavy presence just over the horizon.
But with Salvation...the apocalypse comes and...it's no big deal. Apparently much of the military managed to survive (chain of command included)John Connor is just a cog in the system who spouts gibberish over the radio, and... his father from the future is a fun loving, happy go lucky rogue...
None of which connects to the previous movies very well.
There is no emotional connection in this movie. The characters are just...boring. They're cardboard cut outs of people, people created to serve a purpose, but never given a chance to ever seem like real people. Hot American Indian chick, plot device to show Sam Worthington's character's humanity, and predictably help him out of a tight spot. John Connor (Christan Bale), auto distrusts all machines which makes no sense given the previous movies. And we can't even go into all of the stupid mistakes that he makes for someone that was trained as a soldier and should know what the terminators are capable of. Bryce Howard playing John Connor's wife... Why does John Connor need a wife? Why does his wife play no conceivable purpose in the story whatsoever other than being there?
And could someone please tell me why Common was even in the movie other than he wanted to be? He must have something like 2 lines.
I think it's a steaming pile of crap. But I'll admit people have disagreed with me.
If you ignore the previous movies and take it as a stand alone. It's okay...maybe. I just feel that the studios have done to terminator what they did with the Aliens franchise. The good writer/director leaves and then the studios go right ahead and f- it up.
If you liked Alien vs Predator (all 5 of you) than you might enjoy this movie. The rest stay away...stay far away.
 full price, fair price November 16, 2009
M. Galloway (Hinesburg, VT USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I want to pay full price for this movie. Do I have any options? Why is the price always falling? Full price does not seem so unreasonable.
DVD is dead? November 10, 2009
DeAd MiKe (Brooklyn)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I really don't see the need for Blu-Ray. It's not like a different form of media like DVD was to VHS. Both DVD and Blu-Ray are digital. The difference? Blu-Ray can hold more data. Who cares? My DVDs look great with my upscaling DVD player (using HDMI), so I don't really see the point for Blu-Ray.
Now, I really wanted to buy the Director's Cut DVD of this film, but it will only be on Blu-Ray. Does the studio think I'm going to buy a Blu-Ray player just for 'Terminator Salvation?' LOL no. I didn't even do that for 'The Dark Knight.'
So, all the studio is doing is losing money by forcing me to have to download the Director's Cut, rather than purchase the DVD (which I wanted to do, since I have all of the other 'Terminator' films). So, it looks like they'll be losing a lot of money with this stupid stunt of theirs. People who don't have Blu-Ray aren't going to buy a player just for a movie like this, so this was a bad idea. Instead, people who want to see the Director's Cut are just going to find alternative methods to do so, which will completely cut the studio out of the profit.
Good going.
 Not Suspenseful + Not engaging and exiciting as Terminator 2 November 8, 2009
Cestmoi
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
- The special effects are not as exciting as Terminator 2.
- There's no suspense in this movie. Terminator 2 is suspenseful from the beginning till the end.
- There are a lot of actions but they're not engaging as those of Terminator 2 either.
- It was supposed to be touching at the end when someone scarified to give his heart to another person but I was not moved. I don't know it's because of bad directing or acting. It might be both.
DVD gets hosed again!!! November 7, 2009
Bill J. Thomann (Port Charlotte, Fl United States)
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
Blu-ray gets a 2 disc director's cut while dvd gets only a pos single disc with only the theatrical cut. Getting tired of having some studios try to shove blu ray down my throat by withholding all good special features and added footage. DVD is still the top selling format. Wish they'd just give us the quality of discs we used to get.
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