Terminator Salvation

Or, "If the machines want to take out humanity, they'd better be sure they kill
Batman first."

It would be an insult to everyone on Mono to suggest that they need a synopsis
of the plot. John Connor, in the future, fighting Skynet. Seriously, you do the
math.

The battle details one of Connor's earlier battles with Skynet, no more, no
less. Lots of hardware made of pigiron goes boom. We see a few cool new breeds
of terminator, and - hey look! Michael Ironside is a hardass! Nice to see you
again Michael! Top bloke.

The real question is, is it any good? The problem with judging that is that no
film will ever be as good as Terminator or Terminator 2, including Terminator
and Terminator 2. Seriously, I watched Terminator 2 last night, and it's just
about pretty good, but 20 years haven't been kind to it. The effects stand up,
but the plot's pretty dumb, and I will never know how we tolerated Edward
Furlong at the time. So, given that, I guess this is an acceptable, but less
good sequel. It's a bit of a mess, and the ending is pretty dumb, but it
rattles along entertainingly enough, and it looks pretty cool.

One thing that this film does *not* really do is take the franchise in any
interesting new directions. The brief is to film a bit of what we know
happened, and make it exciting. No real risks are taken, and so I suppose it
succeeds in not failing, it fails in not succeeding too.


7/10. Capable enough Explodo.