Terminator: Operation Terrible

Rating: 3/10 (21 May 2009)

Firstly, McG needs to stop producing movies and stick with his cream of the crop television series. Terminator Salvation was a step down from the O.C., but in retrospect a step up on Spiderman 3.
The powers that be in Hollywood thought bringing back the genius writers from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was a bright idea....evidently not! This film lacked the much needed dialogue to keep an audience intrigued and tuned during the gaps between the visual effects.
Although some visual effects were appealing, it is hard to give them any positive recognition when comparing them to The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. You would think with 25 years of technological advances we would see some drastic improvements in visual effects of the series, but you don't! It is the same old.
I don't even want to get started on the rips that are mirrored in this film, but I will. While resting my eyes during this film, I could not stop thinking that I was watching Batman, damn Christian Bale and his mono tone voice. Rips and parallels from Apocalpyse Now, Schindler's List, Armageddon, I Am Legend, I Robot, and many others are evident.
The movies predictiveness could have been some what masked if they eliminated the PG13 restrictiveness during several scenes, but wait, that would mean less money from their target audience which is a big "NoNo".
At most this movie is a rental.......actually I wouldn't waste the money just stream it.
Guinnage