John Anderson of Variety gives the early verdict: "Darker, grimmer and more stylistically single-minded than its two relatively giddy predecessors,
Terminator Salvation boasts the kind of singular vision that distinguished the
James Cameron original, the full-throttle kinetics of
Speed and an old-fashioned regard for human (and humanoid) heroics. Only pic’s relentlessly doomsday tone -- accessorized by helmer
McG’s grimy, gun-metal palette -- might keep auds from flocking like lemmings to the apocalypse...
McG, whose segue from music vids to movies resulted in two
Charlie’s Angels extravaganzas and the woeful
We Are Marshall, exhibits an unexpected flair for the dreadful, abrupt and awesome. What we get here -- which was perhaps missing on the relatively sunny mental landscapes of
Terminator 2: Judgment Day and
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines -- is a sense of real horror: When humans are snatched up like Cheez-Doodles by skyscraper-sized Go-bots, there’s no slo-mo relief or stalling. Stuff happens as it might were the world actually overtaken by demonic appliances."
2 comments:
Grim, dark, grimy....The poster alone turns me off seeing the movie.
I didn't see at all how the movie dark or grim, the PG-13 rating took at lot out of it
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