Terrible! A complete disappointment to the franchise

Rating: 2/10 (31 May 2009)

Terminator Salvation was a big disappointment. T1 and T2 were some of the greatest movies ever made. T3 was not as good as them but it was still terrific. But T.S. was horrible. Christian Bale does a terrible job as John Connor. I couldn't stomach the part where he copies Arnold's line, "I'll Be Back." Anton Yelchin does a terrible job as Kyle Reese. He was nothing like Kyle in T1. When he utters " Come With Me if You Want To Live." I burst out laughing. This movies plot is centered around a character named Marcus Wright, who is actually a pretty cool character, but is irrelevant to the series. The plot involves Reese and Wright escaping from the terminators in search of John Connor, and Connor and Wright fighting skynet. There are many plot holes. Judgement day is now not 2029. In the other movies it was stated that Reese was born in 2008. This movie says that the current time is 2018, so that means Reese is 10 years old, which he obviously isn't. This movie should have centered around depicting a realistic view of judgment day including all major cities getting bombed. It should have shown the resistance fighting at night rather than day against thousands of terminators, as depicted in T1,T2,and T3. Also it would have been cool if liquid terminators were shown. But no, nothing important was shown. Arnold's face looked terrible as A CGI onto another actors body. All of the terminators looked stupid. John Connors final battle with the T-800 was an awful scene. The writers could even think of a better ending scene,instead just copied the ending idea from the first. I don't even feel strong heroic feelings for John Connor in this movie. Edward Furlong and Nick Stahl both did way better jobs. Christian Bale is an arrogant jerk who does not deserve the part of John Connor.When Marcus gave his heart to John in the end I laughed. Bale took over the franchise and ruined it. He probably ran the whole set during filming. I wouldn't doubt after hearing his infamous rant video against the cinematographer. The only thing cool about this movie was the action scenes, such as the bridge scene and the chase scenes. Otherwise this movie was terrible. A complete waste. And don't get me wrong I am an avid fan of the first three films. I hope this franchise can be saved by a great sequel but I am doubtful because that McG dude is taking over for the next two terminator films and god knows how much worse he will make it after this. And another thing, they should have made this movie R. Thats the nature of the terminator films. So all in all I give this a 2/10 and god have mercy on this movie's soul.