A complete disgrace to the Terminator franchise.

Rating: 1/10 (23 July 2011)

Let me start off by saying that I love the Terminator movies. The first one is defiantly my all-time favorite movie, Judement Day was fantastic, and I'm not completely in love with Rise of the Machines but I didn't think it was terrible (the major beef I had was that Nick Stahl didn't look like John Connor at all).
Now let's move on to Terminator Salvation.
1.) Physically Christian Bale can kind of pull off John Conner, however character-wise, he couldn't have been worse. He was stale, boring, and unlikeable. Totally the opposite of the past two Johns.
2.) Bryce Dallas Howard makes a terrible Kathrine Brewster. Enough said.
3.) That little girl, Star, was completely uncalled for. I don't see why they had to add a little kid who doesn't say anything follow Kyle around like a lost puppy.
4.) This movie did absolutely nothing for the Terminator plot line. The only two significant events that happened were John gaining control of TechCom and him meeting Kyle. Other than that, it's just another pointless action movie. If the movie was a stand-alone and had nothing to do with a series, then maybe it would've been decent but the fact that it's supposed to be a part of the Terminator made it disgraceful.
5.) There's absolutely NO character development. Everyone of the characters are cardboard and stale (with the exception of Kyle Reese which I'll get to later). Plus, you don't connect with any of them, which is something that I enjoy in a movie.
6.) McG is the director? Hello? He directed only one other movie: Charlie's Angles. Yeah, that terrible remake that completely flopped. Oh, and he made some music videos and Gap commercials. And yet he got to direct a movie in an outstanding franchise?
7.) It's plot hole paradise. I'm not going to even go through all of them but the major one is Skynet holding Reese hostage instead of killing him which, in turn, would've killed John too.
On the other hand, despite all the negative things that I have to say there is one thing that I was very pleased with, casting Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese. I thought he did an amazing job playing Reese both physically and charaistically.
However, all-in-all, I still was sorely disappointed with Terminator Salvation.