Daily Plastic: Terminator Salvation

Movie	Our Take	Other Takes
Terminator Salvation Trailer . IMDB	Terminator Salvation is a joyless, misguided attempt to give a flagging franchise the Batman Begins / Casino Royale treatment. Director McG centers his title credit in the white light of a lethal injection. Take it however you like. Robert Davis Daily Plastic	Salvation is a film that draws its inspiration from other, inferior franchises instead of its own, much-beloved mythology. Ryan Stewart Slant Magazine The business of the film is not to tell a cogent story or earn the devotion of our sympathies but to analyze alternatives, and, when in doubt, pick whichever is louder.... All of which raises the question: when, and on what possible ground, did someone decide that the Terminator franchise should be no fun to watch? Anthony Lane The New Yorker [I]t’s the machines — or, more precisely, the Hollywood Machine that sifts through books and old movies in search of the holy "franchise," and at strategic intervals generates nonessential sequels. David Edelstein New York Magazine

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