Terminator Salvation (2009)
DownrightDebonaire 1 points 9 months ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Not my favorite. About to watch Dark Fate so if I exclude that I would put this one on the bottom of the Terminator list.

  1. I really dislike that the entire thing feels like the video games. I get that they have them and want to bring in that audience but visually that is very difficult to watch for many people. Some scenes I had to entirely look away from the screen. It might as well be Salvation: Machina that came out soon after.
  2. This came out after Sarah Connor Chronicles and retcons some of that. They should have tied in the few details they ended up countering. The time and ages make no sense and we could have finally seen Kyle and Derrick together.
    3.This weird limbo of Connor not being in charge after starting the resistance at the end of T3 is weird and just doesn’t do the storyline and help. If they were going to ignore John jumping to the future after Chronicles and the age of the Reeses, then they should have picked up after T3. This had a weak conclusion. Yea he saved Reese, but where did the development of the time machine happen? This movie could have focused on him establishing a relationship with Reese and getting the time machine to send him back. Instead it’s another franchise Bale enters, takes way too seriously and turns into nothing but an explosion fest. The other films had comedic beats and iconic lines. This was a waste of time.