Terminator Salvation

After having watched Hugh Jackman sleep-walk through X-Men Origins: Wolverine and waiting for something unpredictable to happen - I really did not think I would like Terminator Salvation. This was another one of the most hyped movies of the month but the Arien is completely crazy 'bout action movies and so I decided to go along, yet again. The only plus I cud see was Christian Bale who was fantastic in the Dark Knight and Illusionist. He plays the part of John Connor. The minus was tht some of the machines looked like the ones in Transformers but lacking the colour n the personality. It was a tie n so I went with the Arien's optimistic frame of mind.

For the folks like me who started with Terminator2 and then watched Terminator1 and missed Terminator3 alltogether - it was good. For folks who have not watched even one of the Terminator series - the graphics are cool, you may feel you are a part of sm JigSaw puzzle which you can solve only if you have watched the earlier parts but for most part you follow wht is going on. We were on time, thanks to the Arien's persistence. The movie started well. There were scenes when I wanted to whistle or shriek alongwith the crowd. There were a few surprises - making this movie really worth watching. *Spoilers ahead*

Wah Wah

• This was the movie tht made Arnold Schwarzenegger's career. Not seeing him in this movie was not ok. However, Christian Bale (John Connor) and Sam Worthington (Marcus Wright) were pretty good.


• The scene where Marcus attracts a magnetic mine; when he realizes tht he is not human and is a cyborg with the goal to bring John Connor to Skynet were taken very well.


• Seeing an almost lifelike Arnold (T-800 model 101 terminator), who starts fighting with John Connor gets full points for the surprise element and the computer generated graphics.


• The machines: they played different roles.

Blaah

• The look of the film was dark, dusty, and gloomy. I guess tht is the result or after-effect of the nulcear holocaust.

Verdict

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