In almost every count, mediocre

Rating: 5/10 (29 January 2010)

I liked Terminator 3. it was a fun action flick with some pretty nice action despite it was, well, a bit brainless. And action wise I liked McG's Charlies Angels movies as well despite they were even more brainless. So that in mind I don't have any reason to desperately hate Terminator Salavation as some hardcore James Cameron fans do.
So good things first. The special effects are good. The big robots, the small robots, flying and swimming robots look vicious and deadly. And that's it I think. Oh, the main cast does good with the material they're given. It always amazes me when actors can give even the most silliest lines with a serious face.
McG doesn't manage to get the movie going at any point of the story. Action scenes, while good looking, lack intensity and feel like they are out of steam. Then there's too many "close calls" for the main characters and that too gets boring quite quickly as well the fact, that I hardly connected to any of the characters.
Maybe it was the script or maybe it's McG's skills, I don't know. The whole movie felt like the makers didn't really know what they were doing with the material they had. The tone of the movie was very matter of fact serious, but it is filled with scenes that feel a bit goofy, despite they didn't make me laugh. They just feel odd in the mix, as if they had taken certain things just a bit further they'd made a flat out parody.
I can't really recommend T:S, but it's not the worst movie I've seen in my life.