A poor cash grab

Rating: 3/10 (3 July 2015)

I am getting the chance to see terminator genysis tonight so I finally have to review the most recent terminator film and that is terminator salvation. Set in the year 2018 after judgement day, John Connor and the resistance attempt to find a way to stop skynet in the war. While a mysterious criminal called Marcus Wright meets Kyle Reese and they have their own reason to track down Connor. Christian bale was cast as John Connor and this was a complete mixed bag. This performance was pretty close to when he played Batman in the dark knight and sometimes it seems he is just growling and shouting for no reason in this film in his very noticeable batman voice. This does kind of work though for the character of John Connor and there are times when his character is expanded and looked at that works for the film. Now I have never been a fan of Sam Worthington and his character in this film is not a likable guy and he never grew on me once throughout the film and took away from the film. The girl that meets Marcus Wright is a terrible actress and she could and should have been written out of the film because you don't care about their romance and it such an insignificant part of the film. Helena Bonham Carter is in the film and even though she is a key part of the film she is barely in the film and she never got a chance to develop like she should have done. The one pretty good performance in this film is Anton yelchin as Kyle reese, I thought he nailed the damage of the character and the layers that the character should have. The story is just complete garbage and it actually goes quite a way to take away from the other films. The character development just isn't there, there are two stories where they could have easily made it one and a romance that you really just won't care about. The script is utterly terrible also the dialogue is just so dull and ridiculous that really doesn't help these characters. And no the odd reference to the other films does not make good dialogue. There are some fun action scenes that are directed well and look good, but then there are some awful over cgi based action scenes that really hurt the movie. Overall this is another really poor terminator film and I'm really hoping this franchise gets the film it deserves in genesyis.