Another misfire without Cameron

Rating: 5/10 (1 March 2017)

At its best, "Terminator Salvation" recalls the evil cyborgs of the previous (better) movies. And that's kind of it. McG tries to up the ante by making the machines bigger, but they look dangerously close to Bay's Transformers. That's not a compliment; some of these Terminators look like Decepticons.
But this is a strictly passable entry in the franchise, one that promises plenty of guns and brooding combat but not very much else. A lot of this movie is mechanical - even Arnold's back via CGI workaround (though I will say they did a decent job rendering him; I was surprised by that). In the end, this is a hollow movie and unquestionably the series at its most dreary. It's not as eye-gougingly stupid as "Genisys", but also nowhere near the first two.
5/10