Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation was a love hate relationship. I watched this movie in the opening week with high hopes and low expectations. It did have several components working in its favor that led me to believe that this could be a great flick, but given the shoes that it had to fill with T-1 and T-2, I wasn’t holding my breath.

I love that it has a big name popular actor Christian Bale (the best John Connor by far) and up and comer Sam Worthington. The story is set in the year 2018 unlike the past terminator chronicles. This demolished earth presents much more of a challenge to make the viewer buy what he is seeing. Die Erlösung did a phenomenal job with this. The CGI was superb, and the acting was fantastic. We also get to see the heart of Skynet and an early Arnold. John Connor's struggle for dominance over Sam Worthington (I forget his name in the show) is my favorite piece of the movie. Also some amazing fight scenes featuring Sam had me on the edge of my seat.

Some of the things that I didn’t like were the movie’s predictability. There were scenes where my fat movie friend Patrick would call out what was going to happen right when it did. Also, Skynet’s plot to deceive John Connor was not the most clever or the path of least resistance. Sam Worthington although a cool super-hero didn’t necessarily make sense.

I would watch it again if it was on Cable or TV, but I probably wouldn’t pay again to see it.

Rating: 7