Terminator Salvation Movie Review

There're a lot of bad reviews (basically from high expectations) around for this film, but i still decided to try my luck and have a look at it. I've said before that this is one of the must watch movie of the year and now i still think it's not that bad a movie. One thing i can't stand about (serious)movies are those with tons of loopholes in their story, this in my opinion is not one of those.

One main criticism of T4 is that the terminators looked so outdated and inferior compaired to those in T1 and T2. These critics obviously didn't spend too much time thinking. Those that traveled back are T-800 and T-1000, supposely the machines' best models. So how can they design/make models before them to be better? That is the director's restriction here. Knowing that viewers are such suckers for cool robots gadget etc, he worked around the restriction by introducing other kind of robots (such as motor terminator). 

In  "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles", the lastest judgement date is on April 19 2011, about 2 years from now. That is why the resistance forces are still using weapons and tools familiar to us (like usb, sony viao etc). You simply can't expect things to become so advance when you are stripped of your labs and resources. Anyway if you are wondering why the base of the terminator is so human like, skynet was built by human and so is their base.

This is really an all action war film, with the usual questions on morality with infightings etc and quotes like "human beings like to believe what they want to believe", "when people are desperate, they believe anything you throw at them" (not word for word but along these line). Well this movie was filmed when Bush was still president of America, thus explaining their choice of quotes.

What i really like is how they understood that it's been a long time since T1 and T2 made their debut, we would have forgotten most of it. The movie helped refresh our memories by having John listening to tapes made by his mom, Sarah Conner, on what John must do (basically save his dad and send him back). Take note of what was said and you will not be lost.