Salvation is by FAR the worst film in the Terminator series. There was no real sense of threat, no properly developed characters, a very messy and unfocused story, and some appalling dialogue. I actually laughed out loud several times - Christian Bale has become a complete parody of himself and his whispering seriousness was just so unconvincing.
It's like they had about 5 different choices of things to focus the movie on, but just gave up and did all of them halfheartedly. I wish they had been more bold, and actually stuck with one thing. The genius of all the Terminator films up to this point was their simplicity of plot. This one was a complete mess.
Also, the ending was a spectacular anticlimax, and completely laughable.
I really really wanted to love this film but it let me down severely - the reshoots and hasty edits are very obvious and I think the whole thing has been the victim of circumstance to a certain extent.
It feels like the first draft of a film, before anyone's actually come in and sorted it out.
I don't blame McG solely though - I think they perhaps counted on Bale's star power too much and sacrificed the better plot lines to cram more in to the film.
And don't even get me started on the giant Transformer-Terminator who has 'mototerminators' (yes, they're actually called that) coming out of his KNEES.
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