Appropriately action laden and subsequently stupid (but a step up from 3)

Rating: 6/10 (28 June 2010)

After four entries, I'm afraid Terminator no longer makes sense. The whole time travel thing has gotten so ridiculous that attempting to descibe it hurts my brain. In Terminator, Our hero (Kyle Reese) was sent back from the future by John Connor, to ensure that his mother lived to give birth to him. This is understandable enough, and the Terminator ended up being a fine film.
Now, just imagine taking something like this and making it ten times more convoluted, so much so that it interferes with the plot and degrades the movie. This is exactly what happen in Terminator Salvation. That and bad acting result in a pretty mediocre movie
At least it could have been worse. Terminator Salvation is more than a small step up from the almost unwatchable Terminator 3. It feels like something a bit more fresh, and less like a rehashing of previous entries (which terminator 3 was) The first half of Terminator Salvation is actually pretty good containing plenty of adrenaline without ove4r doing it, but the film doesn't get better, it gets worse. I found myself loosing interest rather quickly, in part because of the growing sense of idiocy, but more importantly, because like so many summer blockbusters, this is ultimitely a shallow enterprise, hard to care for. James Cameron invested some time is giving us characters; this film has cardboard cut outs.
The end result while not terrible (and sometimes very thrilling) does not do enough for me to wanna recommend it.