same story different day

Rating: 1/10 (11 June 2009)

Yesterday was a rainy day and I saw Terminator Salvation was playing in our local cinema. It was entertaining enough to keep me in the cinema for 2 hours. TS contains a lot of action, which is one of its strong points.The CGI was overall quite good, however Arnie was in my opinion too plastic, but still OK, although I think with the current cinematic technologies it is possible to render a far more realistic model (see Unreal3). Aside of that, there were some things really bothered me, and made me wonder how the director and his multi-million investors failed to realize these obvious flaws in the script. This is the main reason why I am writing this article, not to tell how great the action was because we all can agree that it is sufficient.
First of all, I would like to tell you about how realistic the movie is. Try to imagine how the world would look like after a nuclear war, no cars, no water out of a tap. But yet it still seems that A-10 planes are able to fly all around the USA, even though they require an entire infrastructure of engineers to maintain them, gallons of gasoline to keep them flying, insane amounts of ammo and last but not least, fully operating military airfields all around the states. Wouldn't these be Skynet's priority targets? And how about the fact that A-10 is designed at the end of the sixties... sounds like free target practice for such high-tech AI controlled planes of Skynet you might think?
John is played by Christian Bale who thinks the whole movie is all about him. He fails to realize that the movie would be far better off without him; not only does he not fit in with image Sarah gets in T1 about "the great leader", his acting through-out the whole movie was utterly average and made me sick to my stomach. Like in all of all the characters he played, he plays a guy that has trouble holding his temper: storming into Skynet, risking his life and the faith of the future to save Kyle, although he could sent that cyborg guy with a whole platoon instead. Yeah, thats to expect from a second rang actor which has ruined more movies than tears Justin cried to make his river.
The holes in the plot grow bigger as the movie goes on: the incredible AI of Skynet that "decided our fate in a microsecond" fails to terminate Christian at its own ground. Me, a guy with an IQ below 100 figured out that by making a couple of these fusion cells go off would kill John and Kyle, allowing Skynet to win the war. The story goes on; Skynet, a supercomputer, did not take any measures against Markus may he riot once he finds out they turned him into a robot. Even their newest model (T-800) looks inferior to Mark which was made 15 years ago, which makes no sense...
Overall, this movie was a good action-fed movie if you have nothing else to do and you are looking for some brainless action then go watch it, although any steven seagal would fit more for this purpose. For any person more than 12 year old, don't waste your time at a movie like this. The Terminator franchise was finished after T2, keep it this way. Wanna-be directors should start in the sandbox instead of ruining great movies like this.