Action packed movie, but it didn't really feel like a terminator film

Rating: 7/10 (8 June 2009)

I've always been a Terminator fan with the original Terminator being one of my favourite films of all time, but the feeling with Salvation was detached from the previous instalments! Don't get we wrong, I scored it high and came away enjoying the film but a number of things let it down for me!.
Where were all the Terminators?...first films worked great with a "just him and me" feeling to them; but with Salvation having skynet self aware you would expect armies of theses metal mother****ers! Good example was the start of T3 with the glimpse of the future seeing an army of terminator sweeping through the land!...Salvation doesn't do this, something you would expect if machines had taken over the world wouldn't you think?...
Nuclear Holocaust? All major cities nuked by Skynet eradicating everything! So why all the lush plant life, tree and crystal clear waters?...I realise its a few years after the initial attack but Nuclear winter suppose to last 50 years or something right?
Previous films gave the impression people that grew up after Judgement Day have never seen a green and lush world. With an out-take in T1, Kyle Reese after spending the night in what looks like a sewer entrance is faced with the wood land he's never seen before getting a emotional!... but in Salvation certain parts look like 'New Forest'...
Taking down Skynet! - You would expect this place to be a epic fortress but was a joke!! You see one larger machine deactivated by Marcus, one walking about when Connor is by passing a door and a rubber faced 80's ripped Arnie; that was it!!...
Number of other things I like to mention, McG's attention to detail like Connors scar is a good touch!, Connors wife had a pointless roll and I thought Anton Yelchin played a convincing Kyle Reese! These are just my thoughts! :P