The Terminators

2009 "Built to protect mankind, now programmed to destroy."
2.1| 1h29m| R| en| More Info
Released: 28 April 2009 Released
Producted By: The Asylum
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A small band of resistance fighters battle the cyborgs that have taken control of the planet.

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Xavier S. Puslowski

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The Asylum

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CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
TheLittleSongbird I don't put Terminators in the worst 5 Asylum movies(Titanic II, Alien Origin, 2010:Moby Dick, AVH:Alien vs Hunter and Transmorphers), but it is down there with the worst. I am not going to cite it as a rip-off of the Terminator movies, though it is derivative in a way to them, because James Cameron is not among the most original of directors or writers in the first place. Rip-off or not, Terminators is still a terrible movie on every level. The editing is really haphazard that it is difficult to see what is going on at some points, while the effects are overused and very crudely done. The soundtrack is often overbearing and at the end of the day forgettable. The script is stilted and cheesy, often having an aimless quality to it also, while the characters are annoying, the physics is so off the charts that your head is constantly screaming "No, No, NO!" and the story is not only formulaic but also has no momentum whatsoever. The acting is awful too, Jeremy London especially looks lost. So overall, interminably terrible. 1/10 Bethany Cox
danspan101 Since I can't really add anything new or different to what others have written (basically, any review with score of 2 stars or less I'm in agreement with), I decided to add to the list of films Asylum should consider making:Battlestar Galaxia; Star Track, The Motion Movie; Star War IV, A New Hopefulness; Star War V, The Empire Stages a Counter-offensive; Star War VI, The Jedi Comes Back; Babylon 6; Lightning Bug; The Twilight AreaMaybe they should get into historical dramas:Approximately 300; The Passion of the Jesus; Troys; Inglorious Soldiers Who Never Knew Their Fathers; Spartacusus; Saving Corporal Ryan
Sean Kings I tried. Honestly I did. I did sit down - try to fight this thing to the end so I could stand in front of my computer screen with a pointed finger shouting "HYPOCRITES! YOU ALL ARE ROBOTS!" through gritted teeth when the credits rolled. Alas, I could not. With a plot as slow as a constantly complaining prepubescent white man carrying a constantly complaining injured black girl 200 feet back to the van she somehow fell out of, out of the way of the superhuman hunky death machine following suit at full sprint that actually couldn't catch up, my desire to verbally bash this movie down to a Windows ME TR-1 was silhouetted by the overwhelming challenge to repel me from it.Although there were tough times, however, there were the good times. From the over-amplified, unmotivated gasps of air, to the brief tour of where to have sex in an industrialized building, to cigar-sucking old guy's "We got guns", to unnamed and untalented spaceship worker's "Not a problem. Watch and learn, gentlemen. Watch and learn.", to the futuristic attack warship being outmaneuvered by a path-abiding, big, slow, bright white van (which happens to hold our aforementioned constantly complaining protagonists), to Kurt's "War's a-comin' soon", to, uh... well I couldn't stand watching it at this point. I skipped forward to the end and, huzzah, learned I didn't miss out on much. Oh by the way, should a cyborg mutiny ever should break out and computers start blocking access to their mainframe, take a pointer from this movie and be sure to include a giant 'power to all functional terminators' on/off switch in a random location on your spaceship for good measure, although I'm sure many immature janitors will be subsequently fired because of it.In good fairness, I do give credit to Paul Logan. He kept his mouth shut, gave intimidating furrow-my-brow-and-protrude-my-jawline expressions, and just looked damn good in that outfit - and that's all he needed. Besides, would you rather have Arnold chasing people around while his saggy man-breasts smack his face around? I would too. Laura Walsh also successfully used her cute looks as s crutch and gave a decent performance as well, at least in contrast to the other actors.If you happen to be drunk, a deeply regretful fan of the Terminator franchise, or are just looking for a reason to despise the moral conscious of The Asylum (you only need to go ankle-deep, I assure you), this will give you an entertaining Sunday night.
Paul Andrews The Terminators starts in space as cyborg soldiers known as TR's board a space station hovering above Earth, they take out all human life on the space station & gain complete control of it. Back on Earth in a little town called Winston just outside Los Angeles the residents are shocked to see the city in the distance get nuked, the town is then attacked by dozens of TR's who kill any human they find. Sheriff Reed Carpenter (A Martinez) & a few survivors manage to make it out of Winston but the killer TR's are never far behind. Eventually they discover that the computers that control the TR's is on the space station & they will have to mount a daring mission in outer space to board the station & shut the computer down in order to save humanity from the machines it created...Directed by Xavier S. Puslowski this is yet another 'Mockbuster' rip-off from those seriously untalented people at The Asylum, I won't even bother stating what this film rips-off as it's blatantly obvious from the title. It's not just the title either, does a plot that sees a super computer built to defend Earth actually turn on us & nuke us while have robotic cyborg killers eliminate the rest of mankind that the bombs didn't. It's never made clear when the film is set & it just doesn't feel right, there are space stations & robots that look exactly like human beings yet the rest of the technology on show throughout the film is very contemporary. It's never explained why, once mankind realises that the TR's have turned against us, the authorities just don't send all the missiles & nukes they can into space to blow the space station up. The whole film feels cheap with a so called army of TR's consisting of about three robots & what was that slightly bigger robot at the end all about? Why did it need all that power? It was barely bigger than the standard TR's anyway. The plot twist at the end doesn't amount to much & why did they leave the Sheriff behind in the shuttle anyway? Why not use his robotic powers? Why was there only one gun that could kill the TR's? I find it hard to believe something as advanced as the TR's couldn't detect body heat or have some other means of tracking people & the script is also inconsistent when it needs to be like one TR stands in front of a truck & the truck flips over yet later on another TR gets run over & smashed. While at a stretch I can believe that they maybe be unaffected by bullets surely their clothes would show bullet holes? At almost an hour & a half The Terminators doesn't half drag at times, sure the first twenty odd minutes is quite good with a fair amount of action but once the film hits the woods it slows right down & just becomes a mess of standard clichéd sci-fi ideas & themes that end up contradicting themselves & adds nothing new to the mix itself.Unlike most PG rated crap from The Asylum there's some blood & gore in The Terminators, there are a few bloody shootings including someone getting shot through the head & the camera lingers on the huge blood splat on the wall behind him, someone's jaw is ripped off, there are a couple of decapitated heads & a bit of blood. Amazingly the CGI computer effects work isn't that bad, the actual space station & spaceships look pretty good although whenever a CGI effect & real actor are in the same shot things go to hell & the final evil robot thing with one red eye looks awful. The Asylum took down all promotion of The Terminators from it's website after they were threatened with a lawsuit, unfortunately they still released the finished film.Apparently filmed in just thirteen days in California, the whole thing looks & sounds cheap although the CGI spaceship effects look alright. The acting is bad, that's all that needs to be said really.The Terminators is a total rip-off of a film that we all know, it's not even a good rip-off. Sure the first twenty odd minutes is alright & even quite fun at times but the remaining one hundred & ten minutes sort of spoils it. Another awful effort from The Asylum, have they even made one good film yet?