Not too shabby

Rating: 8/10 (7 June 2009)

I really enjoyed this film, not nearly as bad as people made it out to be, I was almost worried that it was gonna be as bad as Terminator 3. But it was really quite fun, I'm not gonna say it was great cuz there were a few things that were, for want of a better word, crappy about it.
Here thar be spoilers!!! First bit that confused me, In the first Terminator Kyle Reese states that they can only go outside at night, it's safest there. however in Salvation it is stated that you can't go out in the night cuz HK's have infa-red vision...
Also, the very badly, and I mean BADLY superimposed CG face of Arnie on the T-800 that appears late in the film, OK the body double they used was great but the face... really was very bad, probably would not have been so bad if they hadn't used close up shots.
A small detail that bothered me was in the first two films it was made to look like the whole ground was littered with skulls and twisted ruins of terminators and vehicles, however here it was just a vast desert landscape without much really to look at.
Ultimately though the film was quite good, I enjoyed it, and I would most definitely watch it again, true it tends to stray a bit from what the first two laid down as the general "rules" of the film. As a stand alone film it is really quite good, but as a part of the Terminator franchise it is a bit lacking. The acting in it in general is not too bad while there is a considerable amount of pointless and unnecessary dialogue and quite a lot of predictable sequences.