Terminate This Film.

Rating: 3/10 (21 May 2009)

Going into viewing Terminator Salvation, I really had high expectations and possibly too high of expectations. I could see this film being mediocre, but there was no reason for it to be as bad as it was.
The plot is very bad in this film. For the most part I was unclear at the beginning what was going to be going on. I thought it was just going to be John Connor leading humanity against the machines. That was happening I guess, but there were a few side stories going on that I think deterred the film off the main purpose.
I had no idea what was going on for the early part of this film. The reason that Kyle Reese was in the film is somewhat odd and very unclear. I do not want to keep beating a dead horse, the plot was very stupid and boring.
Let me discuss the acting. Christian Bale was OK as John Connor. He did not do anything special. He uttered one extremely bad line that should never be said by anyone who is not named Arnold Schwarzenneggar. If you saw the film you know what I mean.
The action was OK at times. The effects were well done, especially for the T 800s. But a lot of the times the action scenes were too fastly paced and it was hard to tell what was going on.
Also, there was not a lot of humor in this film. It was too serious. The other Terminator FIlms were not comedy flicks, but they at least had fun moments at times. This one did not have any funny parts really.
Towards the end of this film they show the T 800 covered in skin looking like Schwarzenneggar. THat made me remember how great he was in the other films and how great he made those films. Schwarzenneggar was far more important to this series than people realize and his absence from this film for me made me see that without Schwarrzenneggar the Terminator Franchise would not be as great.
So, OK action, bad plot, no Schwarzenneggar. Not recommended at all and a huge disappointment for me.