Terminator Salvation

OK, ok… I’ll give it to them, I did enjoy this movie.  But if I’m perfectly frank, it just scraped into the “liking” demographic.  Maybe I’m a little flicked out over the past month (Wolverine, Star Trek, State of Play…), or maybe it just seems a little bland after an above-and-beyond movie like Star Trek, but Terminator Salvation just didn’t 100% do it for me.  Like I said, I enjoyed it, but… eh.

No complaints regarding the acting, everyone did well there.  Effects, action, fights were great.  The robots looked awesome.  Awesome.  I really dug this apocalyptic version of the future, all grayed out bleakness and despair.  I got a real feeling of humanity at the end of its collective rope.  Directing, writing- I can’t complain.  I just feel like this move was kind of… average, I guess.

It does set up a very easy course for sequels, and it’s pretty clear that’s where they’ll be going, and I’m not upset about that.  To be honest, I did have this same general feeling with Christian Bale’s last franchise-reboot, Batman Begins.  I liked it: where it went with what had already been established, what it added, and what it reimagined.  On the whole, I liked it a lot, but it didn’t stand out in my mind for any specific reasons.  Maybe I just need to wait to see how the series will turn out.