Abysmal Film

Rating: 1/10 (3 June 2009)

Terminator Salvation is a god awful addition to the Terminator saga. The movie lacked the tone, subsistence, and overall quality of the Cameron originals. The acting was sub par at best is it me or did Christian Bale sound like Batman rather than what you would expect John Connor to sound like. The new character Marcus Wright was boring and very little explanation is given for his choosing to side resistance. The humans tortured him the machines did not why not side with the machines. I have waited to see the war between the Humans and Skynet since I first saw Terminator when I was 7 years old. I was left totally unimpressed by the "battle scenes", which I can hardly call battle scenes given that there was very little tactical significance to anything the resistance or skynet did throughout the film. The look of the film was thoroughly unimpressive I found that the only scene that impressed me was seen in the trailer. When the best scene is in the trailer the movie truly sucks. The scene I am referring to is the image of skynet's camp for human prisoners. The tone of the film was completely off, I always imagined the future being set primarily at night (as seen in Terminator 1), in this film most of the action takes place during the day and is hokey and campy to boot. This film felt like an Indiana Jones movie rather than a Terminator film this is probably do to the fact the screen writers and directors were more concerned with making a terminator film rather than telling a compelling terminator story. The only saving grace was the scene in which Guns and Roses You could be mine was played and of course the digital Arnold T-800. One scene I believe totally sank the movie was when Kyle Reese was captured (by the giant terminator) and not immediately killed. Anyone that has ever seen a good Terminator movie would tell you that a Terminator would not be that stupid. Hopefully Terminator 5 makes up for this travesty and the plot hole riddled travesty that was Terminator 3.