Adequate

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2009)

Terminator Salvation is a movie with a lot of potential. The story is sufficiently solid, the cast is good, and the special effects are mostly impressive, especially in scenes that mix modern day technology with Skynet technology.
However, there are parts of the movie that fail to live up to their full potential. Character development is lacking in places and various scenes are lacking sufficient dramatic effect. By dramatic effect, I'm talking about the kind of tension and feeling you get from, as an example, the scene in the preview where Conner unhooks the chain from around the other guys head. If you have seen this scene in the preview, or in the movie itself, this is what I am talking about. You could feel the tension, and it seemed almost real. Unfortunately, this is missing from many other scenes in the movie, and this shortfall is what keeps the movie from being truly exceptional.
Despite it's shortfalls, if you are a fan of the Terminator series, or just a fan of action and/or sci-fi in general, you will probably find this movie to be reasonably entertaining and worth watching at least once.