Terminator Salvation: Salvation is not the right word for this. **

Terminator Salvation Must've been a movie that the studio was just wanting to get out as soon as they could. With a director with a knack for making crowd pleasing films (Making Cameron Diaz dancing in panties in Charlie's Angels) and this is why fans of this series cringed at the first sight of this movie. I cringed; but as trailers came out this movie looked like it had promise so now did it live up to the hype of Terminator? or does it simply miss the mark? I would say neither.

Basically this movie has next to no story; or it doesn't have a story we don't already know as an audience. If you've seen the trailer then you know the story, and what happens, and such. This movie is a debriefing on how it happens and why it happens. The acting in this movie is cardboard; when the actors spew their lines I continually mistaked them to be robots themselves. I didn't care about anything that was going on. The Story was lacking big time as well. They started the movie after the "Hell Fire" and they told the story of Connor finding Kyle Reese and Saving him. That is the entire story, there are no plot twists (that we haven't seen because of the trailers), no character development, and no connecting the characters with the audience, just lots of big bangs, guns and pretty ladies. This movie is a crowd pleaser, it doesn't care about its content, it just cares if it looks good for the general population.

Now there are some good things in this movie that save it from completely heading for a nose dive. The action is amazing; great stunts and great set pieces and excellent camera work around the action sequences. MCG uses engaging angles and rolling camera shots to help engage the audience into the action. The explosions in this movie are massive as well; everything action action wise in this movie is huge and well put together. But it seems like this movie was written, acted, and made around the action. I feel like the writers thought out these huge action sequences then wrote the script around that, I feel like this movie is scared to breathe its own breathe because it doesn't want to displease the general population so it resorts to cheap action tricks.

Overall this movie wasn't very good; it was okay, passable. It didn't introduce anything new and exciting into the series, the characters were driven like drones, and we really didn't care about anything at all as an audience. I feel like I've already seen this movie and I'm upset that they never expanded on what I saw in the trailers; but the action was good, but not good enough for me to see this movie again. When the credits started rolling I sighed and said "It could've been worse but oh well," this movie is its own within the series and that is what saves it. The fact that its a totally new look and refreshing "story" and such is the reason why this movie isn't a huge flop; but its because of this that it isn't a Terminator installment. Please if you they do make a new; please write an engaging and intelligent story!! If you don't know how to do that just watch Terminator 2. Thanks.

A passable, popcorn, action flick, no more, no less.