The new Terminator Salvation movie was pretty good. It had some pretty legit epic robot moments where I was exceptionally over whelmed by them. But the movie revolved alot around this totally random character that was never heard of in the previous Terminator movies and the concept seemed kind of tacked on. (A cyborg with his human conscience and human organs still intacked which is I guees, the machines first attempt at an infiltration model cyborg) This movie also follows the story of John Conners (Christian Bale) rise through the military ranks from a typical soldier/prophet to the actuall leader of the resistance where he finally runs into his father, Kyle Reese when he is just a boy. The movie is definetly not the last (no surprise there, they're going to milk this franchise for as long as they can or at least for another movie) according to the end of the movie.
I think this was a filler movie as far as movies that follow a specific story goes. It really didnt have any significant plot value that advanced the story. It was just one of those noisey and flashy movies with creative-less twists that were very predictable and probably will have very little to do with the next one that comes out. Just like I had thought, The bar that was set by T2 has yet to be surpassed, speaking of, we do get to see a familiar face for a breif moment in the movie that was very entertaining for me and my friends to see (Though it was the obvious work of CGI, i got a chuckle out of it).
I give this movie a 7.5/10. The sets and CGI that we got to see were pretty cool, There were lots of robots that weve all ready seen before and were done really well, as well as some new ones that were really cool too. And the movie really delved into the story of how people dealt with the challenges of fighting machines which i really liked. But the biggest downfall is that the movie fell prey to the virus of modernday stale movie making. Meaning that the action seemed rather cleache at times, the dialogue wasnt anything to special, the acting didnt seem that convincing (I mean these people acted pretty calm and normal being in a crazy war against giant killer robots, where in T2 for example, Sarah Conner was having all these fucked up nightmares about judgment day and it made her incredibly frantic and fearfull of the horror that would come during the war but once the Rise of the machines has come and gone in this movie, the pace is just incredibly slow and I wasnt feeling the terror that I felt in T1 or T2. ) and of course, there were several unneccesary romance moments that we couldve done with out and actually seemed really awkward at times. It was definetly better than T3 though cause we finally get to see the Actual war against the machines. But rest assured there is definatly at least one more movie comin after this one. I would wait till this comes out on DVD though.
