| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...grim and muscular and thundering and joyless." more... |
C |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...All the pleasure of a video game without the bother of having to play it." more... |
C |
Chicago Tribune
Matt Pais |
"For all its noise not much really happens in the story." more... |
B- |
E! Online
Luke Y. Thompson |
"...no new classic, but it's big and loud and mostly fun." more... |
B+ |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
"Bale brings to the role his usual stylish, seething edge." more... |
B- |
Filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"...can't breathe fresh life into the now 25-year-old concept." more... |
C- |
Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen |
"The machines rise to the occasion. Too bad the dramatic element's just as robotic" more... |
C |
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey |
"...Enough pyrotechnics and heavy artillery to feel like Armageddon squared.." more... |
C+ |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"...Worth seeing for the lusty blare of its pumped-up shootouts." more... |
C+ |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
“Terminator Salvation plants itself firmly in an apocalyptic future." more... |
C+ |
Reelviews
James Berardinelli |
"...A futuristic war movie." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"Whoever thought in 2003 that we'd look back on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines as the good old days?" more... |
D+ |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...Predictable story." more... |
C |
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