Terminator: An Early-Terminated Franchise !

Rating: 2/10 (24 November 2010)

Once upon a time, James Cameron wrote & directed a movie. It made big bucks. Did I say that that happened in a town named Hollywood? Because there that means: sequels. Lots and lots of them. The thing is, this time, I don't care!
Simply I don't like the previous 3 Terminator movies. The first was a sci-fi slasher movie, with 2 chased persons; a woman and a helper good guy (lovers to be), being chased by a violent Terminator (played with mega coolness by Schwarzenegger). The second was a repetition of the first, with 2 chased persons (mother and son), Schwarzenegger as the helper good guy, all being chased again by a violent Terminator (with some historic, really great, CGI). The third is more repetition, with 2 chased persons (lovers to be again), Schwarzenegger as the helper good guy again, all being chased by a violent Terminator again and again however played by a girl this time. I slightly enjoyed it, not as a sci-fi or an action, but for its first-time ironic remarks towards Schwarzenegger's character (or anything). As you see, it's a game of switching cards, while the attractive sides get poorer, and the plot gets thinner!
They could have made a fourth one with 2 chased persons (father and daughter), Schwarzenegger as the helper good guy in fully animated cartoon, all being chased by a violent Terminator yet played by a kid. Well, sure that could have been better and newer than what I watched!
(T 4) can lose the patience to watch, and to review rationally. It's sick to read all the time "From the producers of The Terminator", "Form the mentality that brought to you so and so". Because here it doesn't mean a thing. Even if we talked about it as enjoyable waste of time.
While being the no slasher formula, and so expensive movie as well, it got even more poor and thin. It has no story, just some excuses to fabricate chases. It repines about the machines while we saw none of their leaders, or understand what their agenda is. It looks written by a machine itself, because nothing human about it. Not a comic relief or even a good line. Many points seem copied from other movies; the love story between a runner and a girl (Part 1), the mighty enemy dies at the end then comes back (Part 2), the matter of the buddy kid (Cameron's other movie Aliens!).
Christian Bale isn't the lead of it (a woe). Sam Worthington is (an extreme woe!). However I can't blame him alone, the script gave him nothing to do but to jump around. By the way, we were made to believe that John Connor is the one and only leader of the future, to find that he's usual guy (AND AFTER 4 MOVIES ALREADY, HE DIDN'T SHOW A PROOF OF EXCELLENCE YET!!).
No one knows what's meant by "Salvation" in the title?! Is it the salvation of Worthington's character from being a machine to be human? But even if, he was human all along!! It could have been more interesting if he was a helper man, then we discover that he's a double agent / machine who, at last, gets sympathetic, helping the humans, sacrificing for them, to live his "Salvation" anyway. But no such luck!
I didn't understand why Worthington had to be someone who almost traveled from previous time? Or from where exactly this apocalyptic society brings its fuel and vegetables? If the lead exploded the factory of the human-like machines (Arnie in a terrible CG-ed cameo), how it'll go into the past?! And the most bugging one: If the machines are so BIG themselves, why to produce a human-like type? Or rather why not to travel back in time, by themselves, not to murder John Connor, but to take over the world?!!
It's absurd explosion after another, with a huge irritating emptiness in between. I pitied Christian Bale. He's a fine actor, so what brought you here pal? He tried his best to be serious and deep in a movie that has nothing serious or deep. The action isn't genius. Only the sequence in the middle of the movie (the lorry chase) which is above average. The fighter motorcycles was a good addition, but not in a good movie though. It ends with weak battle, lower than the aforementioned one. It's clear that this movie gives no satisfying thing!
It's Hollywood at its poorest and richest conditions. Poorest ideas and entertainment. And richest, rather craziest, budgets ever. Can you imagine that this heavily dull and tasteless movie was made by 200 millions dollars?!! And I thought that Titanic, with 200 million and sure better shape, was not that good movie! With a sum like this, America can make a university for studying cinema, maybe it would graduate more brilliant scriptwriters who wouldn't waste millions on garbage under the name of Blockbuster anymore!
So if you search for some escaping time from your pathetic life, then this one will teach you how your life isn't that pathetic after all. According to the 3 sequels, I believe that (The Terminator - 1984) was better being left alone. They aren't uninteresting movies only, but unnecessary in the first place. 2 of them copied the first with no clue about what's later. Then that later couldn't find something respectful of any kind to present. What confuses me isn't who made these movies? I know; people who are greedy or ignorant (or both). It's who does enjoy them?!!
Finally, 3 too similar not great movies. Their only bright points, Schwarzenegger's coolness and part 2's CGI, weren't here. So if this very expensive, bad, fourth one says something; then it's the fact about (Terminator) as one of the most unnecessary franchises ever made!