Frankenstein

Rating: 2/10 (31 July 2017)

With the thunderous premiere of Terminator 5 two years ago, I decided to embark on a summer sit-down action, temporary trips and murderous robots.
Watching the five films, I proceed to issue a verdict on this saga: it is definitely dead in the strictly artistic speaking. Without its original creator (James Cameron) each new entry has been digging a pit even deeper. And right now it's a franchise prostituted to the extreme. Even Cameron himself had to resort to Terminator 2 to save his ass against the failure of "Abyss" (1989).
Terminator Salvation is not a bad movie, in fact. Has very well focused parts and overwhelming scenes. It only has one glue ... That has nothing to do with the atmosphere and tone of the first two deliveries. There is too much light here, the T-600 is in short supply, and the massive battles between humans and cyborgs, (as in the flashbacks of the first and second films) are of cardboard: too much light for a postapocalyptic story. It ends up being a kind of western mixed with Matrix, War of the Worlds and Transformers. Desert, desert and more desert. Nothing of cities annihilated with tons of skeletons and gigantic machines lurking the battlefield to the few humans who dare to face them.
This film was conceived to finish to throw to a lousy actor, (Sam Worthington) and to give bait to a Christian Bale that does not strike like John Connor. In itself, this movie is not Terminator. If it was conceived as an independent film and with its own personality, I would consider it a good movie. But Terminator only has the title. The BSO, composed by Danny Elfman is horrible, nothing to do with the Brad Friedel classic.
In short, a pity. It will remain as a rarity more within the Frankenstein that is in itself the whole saga.
-Terminator 1: the best of all. With few means, an immediate classic was achieved. -Terminator 2: Great movie, superlative level but below the first delivery. -Teminator 3: Gar-bage. It brings nothing and is a decaffeinated reheat of the second delivery. -Terminator 4: Is this Terminator? -Terminator 5: for some abhorrent, for others, without being a wonder at least retrieved something from the original Temrinator.