Like watching a video game.

Rating: 3/10 (5 June 2009)

I went to this quite hopefully. It was the Terminator episode I had been waiting for for years and sorry to say I was quite disappointed. If you have played Fallout 3 then you will find the settings very very familiar - the look and feel is almost exactly the same, and that's no bad thing because Fallout 3 was a great game. But then imagine what it's like watching someone play it for two hours, not the worst experience in the world but certainly not hugely entertaining. Basically if you like watching your friends play Fallout 3 and Mortal Combat-style beat-em-ups then you will like watching Terminator Salvation. If you're looking for plot, reason or reality then you will be disappointed. I mean c'mon - a heart transplant in the middle of the California badlands in the open air with no tissue typing, no ICU - that's not stretching credibility, it's ripping it to shreds. Plus points? Well the 'Arnie' character is good, in fact I wanted him, not John Connor to survive, and the scenery in the movie looks great. Minus points? Laughable dialog, unlikable characters, poor scripting, poor plotting.