Hard to Get Into

Rating: 5/10 (1 September 2015)

After watching the first three films in the series, I found "Terminator: Salvation" hard to get into. It wasn't a bad movie, really. But it's set in the post-apocalyptic future past Judgment Day, and its treatment of the sci-fi element is so dissimilar to the previous three films that it just made for a very different vibe overall.
Pro's: the casting for Kyle Reese was pretty good, as the guy's voice sounded similar to the actor from the first film. The plot is fair--not terrible, although the entire point of Sam Worthington's character is still a bit strange to me, aside from just being a clever device to add to a somewhat lackluster story.
Con's: John Conner's character is set up as a relative nobody as opposed to the leader of the resistance. Granted, the year is 2018 whereas Conner sends Reese back in time for the first movie in the year 2029, so they were going for a back story to Conner's ascension. Still, he doesn't come across as the strong leader that he's been trained to be. And, as I said above, the whole plot of the movie is just only fair. There's nothing here that makes me feel passionate about the franchise in the way that its predecessors did.
I give it 5/10 stars.