Terminator Salvation from a long time fans perspective

Rating: 5/10 (20 July 2009)

I have always loved the Terminator movies, even the lamer 3rd movie. Viewers were always given short glimpses of the nightmare future. Yet in Salvation this was discarded in place of McG's (who claims to be a long time fan) reimagining of Mad Max. I did like this nods to the previous films although it seems they were just left in to tell viewers that this was a Terminator film.
The "cameo" by Arnold was incredible however, seemed a bit rushed and John Connors reaction a little too forced. The whole Marcus will save the dying Connor was crap, I walked out of the theatre feeling robbed. It was a good movie, but a very mediocre Terminator film.