Terminator Salvation

I saw this movie on opening night. The CGI in this movie is incredible. Scene after scene of incredible action starring every type of Skynet creation you can imagine threaten to overload your senses in this optical feast of special effects.

The development of the characters is disappointing underdone. During Terminator Salvation you find yourself drawn only to the anti-hero, Marcus Wright, who is a human/robot mix. The previews would have you believe he is a minor character that leads the previous Terminator central character, John Conor, to second guess everything he new about Skynet. This however is not the case. Marcus Wright is in fact the central character in Terminator Salvation. It is his story we follow through the entire course of the movie. He is the only character in the story that you develop any emotional connection with, but he simply is not the great terminator villian we have come to expect from previous Terminator films.

Terminator is a pure action flick, with no character or audience connection development. If you are willing to sit through an hour and a half of really cool CGI robots blowing stuff up with no desire to have a real feeling of having seen a great movie, then check Terminator Salvation out.

On the popcorn bucket scale Terminator Salvation gets a medium popcorn bucket. Save your money and catch it at a cheap theater or rent it when it comes to DVD.