It was loud. It was cool. Was it good? Not really.

Rating: 5/10 (4 June 2009)

Terminator Salvation offers everything one could want from a film that promises continuous action and striking visual effects, except a viable plot. Director McG brings us the fourth installment of the popular Terminator series, in which Judgment Day has already occurred and the few survivors of earth have joined to form The Resistance against the machines. We see John Connor (Christian Bale) as the ever promised leader of The Resistance and Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) as a teenager fighting the machines in post-nuclear LA. The film revolves around Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), an ambiguous criminal turned hero who signed away his body to Skynet before the war.
The audience is treated to the audio and visual effects of our time, which transform LA into a post-nuclear wasteland, invent terminators larger than we have ever imagined and bring the war to a new level. The audience is also subjected to an unrealistic (even for a Terminator film) storyline and, dare I say, too much actionnot to mention Christian Bale's constant guttural voice which sounds suspiciously like his Batman character.
In the end, the special effects of Terminator Salvation are not special enough to mask the vapid plot or to bring it up to par with its predecessors.