Terminator Salvation (2009)

Directed by: McG
Starring: Christian Bale

Just about everything in this film improved as it went on so it seems hard to suggest that I should have been a bit shorter. Regardless of how good or bad any particular scene or segment of this film was, just about every bit of it was exactly what I expected.

All that having been said, the best part of this movie was the simple fact that it didn't require anyone or anything to be great. I just needed to be. Even with the great Christian Bale attached to this project, there's little hope that a Terminator movie could rehash what is such a great achievement in the history of cinema so expectations remained low. Low expectations make it very easy to watch a movie and that is what this had going for it, if nothing else.

It was an action movie with a plot that, provided you understand the Terminator timeline, is simple enough. The special effects were good enough most of the time but I was never overwhelmed by them. Even when the acting was bad, nothing important enough was happening so that it would make a difference. When things were good, and even when they were bad, they were most often entertaining.

Lastly, Terminator Salvation did what every Terminator installment since Judgment Day has done... it made me appreciate how very, very great James Cameron's creations were.

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