Terminator Salvation

What do you get when you spend 100m on special effects and 2 dollars on a script -- Terminator Salvation.

The logic of film leaves the audience wanting as the machines do everything in their power not to kill our hero.

The special effects are top of the line but Chritian Bale needs some help in changing his acting style as he never changes expressions or his tone in the entire film.

Wait for the DVD if you must see it and only then I recommend it only as someone who wants to be up to date in the Terminator series.

I just saw this movie, and I have to say, all of the mediocre to bad reviews it has gotten don't surprise me. In my experience, nearly every movie that critics dog, turn out to be pretty darn good, and in some cases (such as this movie) GREAT! On the other hand, most movies that critics rave about (Sideways, Lost In Translation, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)tend to be rather boring. I attribute this to the fact that, IMHO, movie critics want to be "sophisticated" and tend to think "boring" is equal to "enlightening". Now, Terminator Salvation isn't going to make you think, or make you smarter or a better person for having seen it. What it WILL do, is thoroughly entertain you for two hours. And isn't that what a great movie is really suppposed to do?

McG directed this film with the idea of just not wanting to mess it up. It played out like patchwork of other great action films..Aliens in particular. He borrowed big time from Cameron just so that this prequel would not suck. I don't know that there is anything wrong with doing that...considering the studios want big bucks off this film. With that in mind...not messing it up is a good model to go by. Also, for the first time we see echos of the Matrix and the Terminator franchises being the same story but told in different ways. I don't know what happened to that law suit, but this film pays tribute to the two films or it may be McG's borrowing of scenes from great action films so as to not mess things up that gives me that feeling. The acting is good. When did Bryce Dallas Howard become such a hottie? If you followed the gaming versions of the Terminator mythology nothing will come as a surprise to you in this film. McG used all the established story lines from his source material and didn't mess the film up, but he didn't make it special either.