Terminator : Salvation - I quite enjoy it

Terminator Salvation is loud, very loud (the sound track is muscular to say the least but it does add to the experience) and a lot of things explode, crash, smash and wheel out of control.

The film has been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism but I have to say I enjoy it. Ok, yes the plot does not make an awful lot of sense if you think about too hard (how does Skynet know who Kyle is?) but as a sci-fi action film the enterprise is carried off with a lot of style.

Credit has go to McG (that is a stupid name it has to be said) and the rest of the team for using practical, physical effects whenever possible, given a weighty and believable feel to the terminators that feature. They feel like threat, especially the reborn T-800 that enters the action during the final scenes. It truly seems like an unstoppable killer.

But if you look amongst the action (and some of the action is riveting such as the exploding garage to aerial dogfight via a truck chase sequence) there are some interesting things going on in the narrative.

For example Marcus takes the mantle of the story as the hero with John more of a supporting character but interestingly as far as we know he is a man who is a murdered. We don't get told he was wrongly imprisoned or wrongly accused, as far as we know this is a man who killed his brother and two cops. And that's it. He's a killer.

And although they don't quite make sense but the alterations to the timeline are interesting, this is not the future that John was expecting, Marcus is something new and not predicted. Thus we as the audience also can't safely predict where the story is heading.

Salvation for me was the most enjoyable of the summer's big releases. More of a roller coaster ride than the likes of Trek and it with a plot that I actually did not manage to totally second guess within twenty minutes.

I may be one of few hoping for a further installment but if that is to be the last Terminator film we see I'm happy enough.

But of course I enjoy Terminator 3 : Rise Of The Machines too!