SHOOT: As far as I'm concerned, Movie Review Writing 101, Golden rule 1.1.1 is: Don't give away spoilers in your review. Give a few hints as to the plot, but you owe it to the director, and the potential audience, to preserve the tension and the surprises built into the flick. Not sure why Barry, who I respect as South Africa's best reviewer and the sanest columnist, gives away a good many here. Including the waxlike appearance of Arnie (which I'm sure Barry enjoyed). I also felt the religious motifs, given the Apocalypse Soon motifs, made sense and were a redeeming feature. Here's my review:
http://www.nickvanderleek.com/2009/06/movie-review-terminator-is-to-die-for.html There’s a line in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” that exactly sums up “Terminator: Salvation”. It reads: “It is a tale full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” The sound scheme in this film is relentless and mind-numbing, with an assembly of high-tech, high-speed action incidents that might divert you while you watch them, but who knows what they actually achieved? The two good things in the film are the luscious and edgy Moon Bloodgood as a fetching warrior woman and Sam Worthington who has such charisma and style that he leaves poor old Christian Bale scowling in his own dust-storm.
Whatever else I was expecting to see in the fourth film in this 24-year old franchise, the most unlikely thing was the starkly religious imagery. I suppose the title “Terminator: Salvation” should have given me a hint but in the storm of futuristic weaponry, the rampaging machines and frenetic, violent action, I was not expecting a humanist sermon, but there it is, pretty much in the first scene of the film. |
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