Terminator: Salvation

Terminator: Salvation

"Salvation" is an merely enjoyable film that suffers from being nearly unrelated to the core Terminator work among other things. It's to the Terminator franchise what Matrix: Reloaded was to the Matrix. It's fun but clearly pandering toward making a series. And although it's certainly inspired in some parts, Salvation overall simply falls flat because the actors with the most screen time are at best distant, phoning in their performances. The sound effects are also disappointing with many opportunities squandered with what sounds like a typical melange of sound board garbage. The plot is riddled with holes aswell and some philosophical concepts are as poorly executed as beheading with a butter knife. The plot pacing itself comes across as teateringly drunk, swaying from side to side till it finally stumbles toward the end. As a whole the film feels poorly edited and rushed with references missing and scenes jumbled togethor in a barely comprehensible mess.

Despite it, "Salvation" is worth the price of admission just to see "body builder arnie" in all his robotic ass kicking glory. But avoid it like the plague if for some reason special effect's flicks aren't your thing or have something better to do.
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