Terminator Salvation Fails to Satisfy

!Minor Spoilers!



I am going to go down a list along with this video:
1. Christian Bale - he is most definitely the WORST John Connor I have yet to see in any of the terminator movies - and I'm a big fan of Bale. He had no emotional connection with any of the other characters and pretty much just tries to play Batman. The John Connors that I saw in the previous movies were very passionate about the human race and were constantly willing to sacrifice themselves for others. Bale creates this Connor who shows no compassion towards the human race until he learns that his life is in jeopardy. Granted, yes, if he dies so will the human race pretty much, but he does not show that the human race is his concern - he shows that his life is his only concern. For the entire movie Bale uses two levels of voice: a low "intense" speech (oddly similar to Batman's) and if he isn't doing that he is yelling. Also, I feel that it didn't make much sense that Connor would distrust Marcus right off the bat because so often in T2 and T3 he tried so hard to humanize the machines. Marcus was as humanized as possible and Connor randomly distrusts it the most? It made little sense.
2. They make the Terminator 600 tougher than the original Terminator in the first movie...making no sense if Skynet really was still trying to advance. The original Terminator came from year 2029 and would have melted right away if molten metal and fire was poured onto him yet the Terminator 600 was able to rise above it...? Hmmm? Also, just a tidbit - the computer animated Arnold had more personality than a majority of the actual human actors in this film...:/
3. This movie is totally for pansies :/
4. Anton Yelchin played the most memorable character in this film. He truly preserved the character of Kyle Reese from T1 and made a very believable younger version of that character. I truly believe that he really did study that film and broke down that character as Bale should have done with both of the Connor versions from 2 and 3. Yelchin gave the little amount of personality to T4 that everyone else should have also given.
5. Moon Bloodgood's character is absolutely pointless. The only this that was worth having her for was breaking Marcus out of the Resistors camp so he could save Kyle and all that could have been done dozens of ways. The relationship that was very awkwardly created between her and Marcus was a complete waste of time and money. It was awkward for the audience and completely unneccessary for the movie. None of the movies had romance in it except the small tidbit in T1 when John Connors was concieved - which was pretty damn important. Both directors for 1,2 & 3 were really good at keeping that annoying stuff out of the story unless absolutely necessary and all was shot to hell with this pointless relatioship with an even more pointless character.
6. I can't criticize Bryce Dallas Howard too much because they did not shine enough spotlight on her character. I like how Kate Connor is supposed to be 2nd in command under John Connor yet John is not at all in command and Kate is just a doctor - and also in T3 she was a vet...not a human doctor even. This is where a HUGE fault in the storyline develops. John is supposed to be leading the resistance yet from the opening scene he doesn't have control. Yes, he has control over the people through his broadcasts, but he is supposed to be the leader of the entire remaining human race and Kate is supposed to be 2nd in command and she barely has any spotlight whatsoever. She is a more important character, yet more emphasis is put on the Charlie's Angels remake character of Blare - played by Moon as said above.

All in all, this movie was one of the biggest dissapointments for me in a long time. As I said in the title of this entry: it left me very unsatisfied. Not only were the actors not connected to the characters or the audience, McG completely destroyed one of the most exciting and promising storylines that has been in these movies since T1 in '84. There were so many holes that had been layed into the director's hand by the past movies. Kyle Reese would have been killed right away had the machines found him the way they did and recognized him as John's father. He would not have been put in a cell where the machines would just wait for him to rot. The point of the war against machines, is that they are ruthless - doesn't anyone remember Arnold in T1? That is one of many holes/complaints and I could rant for hours on my disappointments about this movie.

There is a go on T5 with the same director and Bale as well - I am just hoping it will get cancelled on the account that this one will not make enough money. I don't regret seeing it because I feel that in order for one to consider themselves a movie fan that you must see the good and the bad, but I definitely don't recomend it to someone who has a wonderful vision of what John Connor's future holds. My vision was bright, but was shot down with McG's ignorance and absolute waste of money.

Sincerely,
The Ern

P.S. I apologize for spellin errors - I wrote this fast and late in the heat of my frustrations :)