Movie Review: Examining 'Terminator Salvation'
Pros: Interesting premise, cast performs decently and the special effects are great Cons: No single dominant villain, too dependent on action sequences After the success of director Jonathan Mostow’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (T3), a film which depicted the “birth” of the murderous computer network known as Skynet and the nuclear attack it launches against humanity on July 24, 2004 – Judgment Day – many fans of the science-fiction genre figured that the series would continue with more sequels, perhaps focusing on the battle between the survivors of the nuclear holocaust and Skynet’s armies of Terminators and Hunter-Killers. There were, of course, various issues that needed to be addressed, the biggest one being the non-availability of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who stars in the previous three films as the original Terminator and two reprogrammed T-800 Model 101 copies and is the big audience draw for the franchise. Schwarzenegger had lef...