Terminator: Salvation

Spoiler alert!

The latest entry into the series is pretty much everything you'd expect from a Terminator movie. grand special effects, members of the Connor family, the California governor, the ingredients are all there. They even manage to squeeze pseudo time-travel, in this case, Marcus' character, albeit less muckier, as it's to the future.

But I digress...

It could've been so much better. I don't understand why they continue to recycle and repackage the human-looking robot idea, or in this case, the robot thinks he's human. It's a war movie, introduce some new concepts for crying out loud. Aliens wasn't a blockbuster because it followed the style of its predecessor, it succeeded because it changed!

There're also some holes in the plot. The most glaring one is of course, the machines holding Kyle prisoner after they identified him. For what? I thought he was no 2 in the hitlist. Why leave him alive? And don't give me that crap about how they want to lure Connor in so they keep him hostage. They don't need to keep him alive, just fool them (incl. Marcus) that he's still alive. Heck, if Kyle dies, if it's as Connor claims, don't the Machines win the war anyway, as Connor will not have existed? Bah....

So all in all, it's an okay watch, and it's a cinema movie. Just don't expect anything new.