don't follow the crowed

Rating: 7/10 (4 September 2009)

Now I don't know why people hate this film so much. I happen to be a HUGE terminator fan and know everything about it and I thought that this film wasn't as bad as people say! McG a guy I had no idea who this person was until I heard of this film, of course as soon as I heard about him I looked him up and I differently wasn't impressed with the films that he had made. In fact what films he has made? Because there are barely any on there.
But like every director everyone starts from the bottom, and this was his chance to make his name, and I think he has done a good job on it. He must have been under a lot of pressure about this film being the huge scale of terminator franchise. He did a good job compared to terminator 3.
When I first saw terminator I thought it was so good and then I realised there was a second one, Oh My God! The second one I must have watch 20 30 times and I still watch it, it's so good. When thoughts graphic on the t-1000. So good
Then I heard about a third one I thought to myself, right this is it, this is the one where I can go to my kids and say I was there when that great film came out, what a disappointment. It was alright nowhere near as good as T1 or T2. I'm not going to speak of that film because have no time for it.
Back to the Salvation!
when I walk out the cinema I couldn't get the relief out of me I thought that it was quite good, hell I say it very good, I'm sure there's some fan boy out there reading this going, "You know nothing William"
Well I do! (Smug face)
It was good OK, I really don't see whets the big problem with this film is apart from Christian's Bale's voice, which I am disappointed in you Bale! "You're a very good actor Christen stay away from that batman voice!" I haven't seen public enemy yet but if he hasn't dropped the voice by then I'll kill!
Anyway, the CGI in this film was very good, really good on the Sam Worthington face, and the motor terminator's or whatever their called. So it shows that McG has put a lot of work into this film. Or McG's CGI team did but he put it all together very well
I liked that in this film McG has created some of his own terminators such as the mototerminator. The harvester was very cool and then that's when I though "that's what you want" when coming out of a film you want to walk out and go when the harvester came, or when you see the mortorterminator fly under the car that was cool. Which is what you did when you came walking out of T1/ T2 cinema, there something new on both of them , which you had never seen before ! Arnold's T-800 coming out of the fire seeing his robotic body, the T-1000 reforming itself you never had seen that before. I got that from this film!
Sam Worthington who plays Marcus does a really good performance and he kind of steals the show from Christen, when Marcus meets up with Kyle Reese, played by Anton Yelchin does the part so well. There are a few scene where we see Anton plays Kyle so good it was like watching Michael Biehn who played the original Kyle Reese (if you didn't know that stop reading now).
But of course there are down falls, christen Bale being the main one. It was that batman/Bruce Wayne voice which he uses for every American accent, like I said his good actor just needs to get a better/new American voice. There's a bit when Moon Bloodgood, who plays Blair in it, does something really stupid in it and it makes you shout out "you wouldn't do that!" So why McG put that in I really don't know! I would say that was a scene that they could have got rid of, or written differently. That's probably why people didn't like it because when you see terminator 1 or 2 you just have no problems with it. There are so many condescending questions in this film, 1 main thing being that in number 1 Kyle Reese tells Sarah Connor they stay hidden during the day and they fight at night? But in this one it's like the opposite? I also think this film would have done a lot better if there wasn't so much advertisement, everywhere you went you would see an advert or a bill bored of terminator salvation and I think people got too hyped for it! While I'm speaking of adverts I think they should have kept the Marcus being a robot out of the trailer making it something to tell your friends. That guy from the trailer is different his not a terminator or is he??? You know it would have been a bit better, my view anyway.
And one big point is, like this review you always remember the bad and not the good. You remember that christen playing the whole angry part again, and Blair doing that stupid thing, or some tiny piece of CGI which wasn't perfected! Remember the good not the bad!
Over all the film was very good film, good CGI, very creative, acting was quite good i.e. Sam Worthington, and compared to Terminator 1 and 2, nowhere near but still very good just not as good as the classic's as per. Go see this film and give it a go!
And remember don't follow the crowed!