The Terminator

Terminate it!

Terminator: Salvation has some major problems, the first of which being that no solid character development is present. One character is more like a prop then a person, and therefore should have either died or never put in at all, neither of which happened. The film is driven by special effects and CGI, which is another problem. Now for the people who were dumb enough to spend irretrievable time making this film (I mean the actors). Christian Bale, the star of the new more realistic Batman films, plays a very unlikable John Conner. Every other actor I did not know their past work, so they are unmentionable.

In the X-men films, the heroes are shunned by all normal human beings, like the Machines. Much unlike the Machines, however, the X-men have likable personalities and minds, while the Machines just kill every human and follow every order without one thought for themselves. My friend, Virgil, who saw this with me, said that James Cameron, creator of these once personified characters, said he wanted nothing to do with the 3rd Terminator film and this one, which is extremely understandable.

In my honest opinion, once Arnold left the franchise, they should have stopped. But no, they had to waste good $ on this sloppy, seemingly plot less and pointless film that should have gone straight to DVD instead of to the theater. I hope you realize now that my point is DO NOT SEE TERMINATOR: SALVATION.


The “story” is this: year is 2018. The few humans not captured operate in full stocked submarine (Isn’t the world supposed to be taken over?). One human is half Machine. Human-Machine meets teenage father of John Connor. Humans attack Skynet. The End. Now doesn’t that sound interesting enough to spend $30 on in an economy that’s in the dumps?