Terminator: Salvation Blu-ray review roundup

It didn't crack the podium on our most anticipated Blu-ray poll behind current number one selling Star Trek, but Terminator: Salvation's feature-laden release December 1 has already made the review circuit and come away with some widely varying opinions. The good news is the picture doesn't disappoint, with a clear transfer and elaborate special effects, although BigPictureBigSound's reviewer found a few issues with a bluish matte line appearing at times, plus a few notes about compression and noise in clouds of dust and smoke also noted in other reviews. On the audio front, the DTS-HD MA soundtrack by all accounts is an impressive treatment, with the only "problem" that viewers might want to dial back slightly on the bass to avoid waking the neighbors. Of the extras included in the U.S. release of the film, the only real issue seems to be a lack of seamless branching, requiring viewers to forego the Director's Cut and its extra few minutes of Moon Bloodgood in order to walk through the flick in Maximum Movie mode with director McG and others showing how they pulled off many of the shots. The European edition released by Sony does feature seamless branching, although CNET UK and DVD Times both complained of slow loads and glitches on their players as a result, with the latter also finding some possible compression issues from being squeezed on one disc. Whatever your choice, check the reviews and make it soon as Warner is planning a one time only BD-Live community screening with the director answering questions via audio December 5.

[LonnieDVD Posted Nov 26th 2009 8:46PM]

I've been a Terminator fan for a long time, and I really wanted Terminator Salvation to be good. Sadly, Salvation is so messed up that I can't bring myself to buy it. Perhaps if James Cameron returns to direct T5, my faith will be restored.

[eternalevolution Posted Nov 27th 2009 7:37PM]

I heard this movie was bad. Is that true. I need to see it for myself and judge then.

Dorian

[LiqwidZero Posted Nov 30th 2009 1:43AM]

@eternalevolution
It all depends on your taste in movies. I fell asleep twice, while watching it.

In my opinion, the movie was one of the worst movies that I've seen in the past few years.

[croooow Posted Nov 30th 2009 3:50PM]

@eternalevolution This movie was not the worst movie by a long shot, it's not even the worst Terminator movie. But it wasn't very good either. If you are a fan of Terminator I would recommend checking it out.

[shamon Posted Nov 30th 2009 9:39PM]

@eternalevolution

This movie is well worth it , it may not be the best but it good enough and fits well with the rest of the only movies plus Arnold cameo was great .

[shamon Posted Nov 27th 2009 10:18PM]

I can't wait ot buy this and bd-live is the best like with the dark knight blu ray and others you and a host of people from around the world can make there own Commentary.