Is time travel possible to wipe this movie from existence?

Rating: 1/10 (24 May 2009)

In continuing the Hollywood trend of destroying once highly regarded film franchises (Aliens, Predator, the Star Wars films), Terminator: Salvation is a muddled, incoherent, illogical disaster of a movie. Besides actually negating plot points established in the previous films, T:S goes even a step further by draining all that was original in them, like a creative siphon. While the film's flaws are too many to list in such a limited space, the plot holes and ill-conceived story devices alone warrant the rating:

How do the machines know Kyle Reese is John's father?

Why do machines of such advanced intelligence have a headquarters? Wouldn't they exist without a central physical presence in the world, like the internet? Why do they need key pads on their doors?

What's the point of 9 foot tall Terminators? The entire idea of a human looking cyborg is for an undetectable killing machine.

In the first Terminator films, humanity is presented as surviving like rats, since machines have the surface of the world conquered. Yet here we see military bases in broad daylight....why can't the machines hit these bases with everything they have?

Again, if these machines are so advanced, why can't they detect simple radio waves like John Connor uses to send messages?

There are far more holes than this, but upon reflection, these were the most glaring. The only positive aspect of the film were the solid visual effects, by the consistently strong ILM. This a film that never should have been made in the first place, and definitely not by such a hack director as McG.