Movie Review: Terminator Salvation
Let me cut right to the chase and just tell you up front this movie is pure crap. It is the most manufactured, cheezy movie that I have seen lately. Let me tell you why.1. The original Terminator was well thought out. It was a great action film, but what made it a really great film for me was that it made sense. The best movies are those that introduce an element of fiction into reality, and continue to play within those rules of reality. Terminator did a beautiful job of this. The last release here, fell far far short of living up the the previous movies, and it does not even deserve to carry the name Terminator. Skynet is out to kill John Connor by any means possible, so when his father is processed into Skynet's holding facility. The #1 priority should have been to terminate him immediately. The movie should have ended at that point, since without Reese to travel back in time, John Connor can't exist, and the Terminators have altered the time line and invalidated everything we've seen up to this point.
2. Terminators are perfect killing machines. They are programmed with the best killing techniques and knowledge of human anatomy. So why can't a T-600 impale someone who is holding still from behind through the heart to kill them? Again this movie just threw away all of the previous work that had been put into the series to produce a crap movie and make a quick buck off of fans.
3. Where the hell did Dr. Serena Kogan come from? This was the character played by Helena Bonham Carter. This character was introduced out of nowhere, and when Skynet uses her to represent itself, it's a huge let down, and just looks like a rip-off of the borg queen from Star Trek. A really badly done rip-off.
4. Did they bother to use any of the awesome material done in Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles? No of course not, this is a stupid hollywood film. This series was excellent, and well ahead of it's time, so much so that the short-sighted execs at Fox dropped it.
So overall the movie gets 0 out of 5 from me. It has no redeeming qualities. Even the use of Arnold as the T-600 was cheezy and horribly done. Do no go see this movie. You will regret it.
posted by Alex Cresswell @ 3:57 PM
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