A highlight: Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese, the soldier who John will eventually send back in time to become his father. Yelchin does an admirable job of mimicking Michael Biehn's performance from the first one while still giving his own spin on the character. Yelchin should have a good career ahead of him, because with this and Star Trek, he's brightened up two middling-to-terrible summer tent poles in May alone.
There's not much else bright about Terminator Salvation, that's for sure. Sam Worthington is a dud as the Terminator with a conscience. In real life, he's Australian, and suppresses his natural accent to play American here. Tellingly, at some point, he stops trying, so at times Marcus will speak like an Aussie and at others like a Yank. Story-wise, little more is accomplished than in Terminator 3, which itself was fairly pointless You could skip these last two films entirely and not miss out on any major part of the canon. This is a franchise that should've died with the T-800 at the end of T2. Everything since then has been utterly pointless.
The old McG is dead? Don't go readying the obits just yet, because from where I'm sitting, he's still a McFailure.
Article comments
1 - Doug Hunter
Agree with everthing except lumping this in with T3. This film reaches a new low and makes T3 look good by comparison.