Salvation-The Damnation of The Terminator Series

Rating: 2/10 (27 December 2012)

I went into this movie with an open mind."Terminator 3:Rise of The Machines" was criticized a lot,but it was a good action film,so I had hopes for "Salvation".Plus,it should have been good,because the people who made this,seem to have gotten what the people's main problem with "Rise of The Machines" was-the tone wasn't serious enough."Terminator:Salvation" it seems,tries to keep a serious tone,but that greatly backfires.Why?Because the movie is nothing more than a poorly constructed amalgamation of action clichés.
The characters are painfully underdeveloped.The scenes,where there should have been character development are cut short.It's like,one character starts a conversation,then there is silence,then the scene cut's away.It's like they cut out parts of the scenes.
The next major problem this movie has is the dialog.Sometimes it's written really stupidly,other times it's incredibly cliché.At some points there are awkwardly long pauses and sometimes the scene cuts away for no reason,as I mentioned above.Some of the acting is downright horrible.Although I haven't watched any of the Batman movies,I can tell that Christian Bale seems to have forgotten,that he is not in a Batman film.
The action scenes are inferior to the previous films and the CGI doesn't seem to help much,either.One major disappointment for me,was that there was no distinct villain,as each of the previous films had one.The T-800 appears for about 10 minutes and does pretty much what all the terminators have done until that point.Skynet appears for a brief time and also,it doesn't do much.
The part where Skynet talks to Marcus is actually not that bad and it made me think,that the ending was going to be good,or at least decent,but alas,there was a major plot hole,that ruined it all.How could have the T-800 survived being covered in molten metal.Plus,it's the alloy they make the terminators from,so I assume you require a higher temperature to melt it,than regular steel,but the T-1000 died after getting dropped in molten metal,that was not in the future and it was a more advanced model.To make matters even worse,the movie ends with one of the biggest clichés ever.
"Terminator:Salvation" lacks any of the qualities of the previous films and was a major disappointment for me.