Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #81 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-08-19
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 405 minutes

Customer Reviews

Pure escapism
I wasn't expecting to like this very much when I first heard about it but it had me glued to the TV earlier this year. I missed the first two episodes though and that's the main reason why I just have to have this on DVD. I'm also a huge fan of the original movies, especially "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", which is one of my favourite movies ever.

I love the way the 'protective' Terminator this time round is a teenage girl and Summer Glau deserves an award for the way she carries off the emotionless, steely-eyed glare of the cyborg Cameron, (so named in honour of James Cameron, the director of the two first movies, I read somewhere), trying to pick up more human traits the more she spends time with them. Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker as Sarah and John Connor respectively are okay and all but it was really Cameron I tuned in to see every week. I get a huge kick out of seeing strong women on screen and Cameron kicks a**!

Basically, the story is still the same. Cyborgs are still being sent back in time; one to kill John Connor and another to protect him and on the one hand, it's pure cheese and pure escapism but it's also a whole lotta fun. I suppose it's possible one could watch the series and enjoy it without having watched all three of the Terminator movies (there are references all over the place) but I doubt it. I can't wait to see this again on DVD and I'm already gagging for season two!

So why only four stars? Well, with only nine episodes (two of which I missed), I was left a bit wanting. Luckily, season two has a bit more meat on the bone. Like I said, can't wait!

Better then expected. Cast seems to have right atitude.
Brian Austin Green(BH90210) as Kyle Reeses brother. Never would I have thought of him in this role, or in any other roles that he cant play a teenager anymore, but here he is superb. He plays his disdain and mistrust of the Cyborgs with the needed restraint. The series does try to fill in the blanks by giving up background, with appearances by Bruce Davison as the former Tuscadero Psychiatrist, who has lost his mind and become a believer in Judgement day in the worst of fanatical ways.

The police inspector who like Inspector Gerard, starts thinking that maybe there is a one armed man after all. Great performane by the actor in this role.

As far as the female terminator, I guess others have seen her in other movies but this was my first encounter with her on the sceen and at first I thought, great, Jailbait Terminator. But she grows on you. She is scary and cold. The freakiest scene is where she is looking for the parter of the Turk computer creater who is also in trouble with the Russian Mob. She walks out of the room to the stairwell just as the button men show up.

That scene of the Terminator walking down the steps, not in a hurry, totally oblivious to the gunshots and cries for mercy from the partner and his sister in the room she just left me freaked.

And maybe its just an opinion. But the Terminators being sent at this timeline seem really stupid and have none of the logic and sense of direction that the T-101 or T-800. Opening up fire in a class room full of kids does not help your mission priority.

Overall heres to a great second season and good luck to all us Term fans and hope we will see T4 asap.

Mehh...
The female terminator is the best part as both the John and Sarah Connor charaters are cringful in both action and verbal delivery. Action sequences are very well done for a T.V. series but the plot is dragging. No need to buy this at full price, as I'm sure ebay will be flooded by the end of the month.