Terminator Salvation is the fifth installment of the Terminator series and focuses on Resistance leader John Connor (Christian Bale) and his battle for humanity against Skynet. The story however seems to focus more on the newly introduced character Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) and detracts attention from what I was more interested in seeing, which was John Connor’s rise to power and his interaction with tapes that his mother Sarah Connor leaves behind.

The entertainment value is still there and some of the action sequences were nice.  The film does manage to recreate San Francisco as Skynet and showing a very raw machine world.  I think the nostalgia that comes attached from the original 1984 and 1991 follow-up made expectations too high and I can only hope that the next installment manages to respark my interest in the battle of epic proportions which is supposed to take place between man and machine.  If you are a fan of the series you might see some flaws but the story does manage to move the story forward even if it only takes a few baby steps.