Sony's "Terminator: Salvation" continued to dominate the international box office over the June 12-14 weekend, grossing $43.4 million from 12,959 runs in 63 markets for an international cume of $164.4 million.
"Terminator" scored $10.7 million in Japan, the biggest opening haul in that country since "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" last year. And it opened to $9 million in China, one of the top openings of all time for a non-Chinese film.
Actioner has grossed $113.9 million in the U.S. for a global cume of $278.5 million.
Hey guys. My apologies for not weighing in on my thoughts on "Terminator Salvation" (much!) earlier - I've been busy with exams as of late (the eternal story ), so haven't visited the KMC for a while. To be honest, though, I think that the wait has been a good thing - it's given me almost 2 months to really digest my T4 "experience".
In short, I liked the film - a lot. I can see from other peoples' comments in this thread that it's gotten a mixed reaction on here at best - but for my money, whilst the film certainly doesn't match up to the high standards of T1 and T2 (though how many movies do ?), it's still a worthy contribution to the franchise, and is probably on a par with the (IMHO) underrated T3. It's got exciting, tense action sequences (such as the escape from the gas station), excellent special effects (all credit to the late, great Stan Winston for his always fantastic designs), and some great acting - whilst Christian Bale sadly doesn't excel as John Connor in the way that I was hoping he would, Anton Yelchin is brilliant as the young Kyle Reese, and certainly doesn't do injustice to Michael Biehn's performance; but the real surprise for me, however, was the superb Sam Worthington as the intriguing Marcus, an actor who I knew absolutely nothing about before, but will certainly keep my eye on in the future. And I loved the "surprise" cameo at the end - brief though it may have been .
On the downside, some of the characters get short-changed bigtime by the story (Kate Connor especially - a remarkable turn of events considering how big a role she played in T3!), and - plot-wise - Skynet's plan didn't really make a whole lot of sense! Most disappointing of all, however, is that "Salvation" doesn't really add anything significant to the "Terminator" storyline in the way that its predecessors did; for that reason above all, it would be a great shame if the story were to end here - something which, given T4's box office and critical reception, is looking more and more likely .
So overall a solid, entertaining, if unremarkable film. Rating: 4/5.
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Sam Worthington has reportedly claimed that there is some truth to certain criticisms of Terminator Salvation.
The fourth instalment in the sci-fi franchise was met with mostly unfavourable reviews by US film critics upon its cinematic debut in May.
Worthington, who played Marcus Wright in the sequel, said that he could concur with a handful of the assessments, Sci-Fi Wire reports.
He said: "I can nitpick with the best of them, man, and kind of go down the list of things I saw on IMDB where they found holes in it, and go, 'You are f**king right'.
"If there was a big ten-ton robot coming outside that gas station, surely we would f**king hear it. And I missed that."
He added: "So I'm going to be a bit better when I'm looking through my f**king scripts. So it raises my game a bit, because now I feel like an idiot for not saying it to McG, you know?"
The 33-year-old recently expressed an interest in portraying Captain Nemo in McG's remake of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
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Jun 21st, 2009 09:26 AM
), so haven't visited the KMC for a while. To be honest, though, I think that the wait has been a good thing - it's given me almost 2 months to really digest my T4 "experience".
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