John Connor checks out the Terminator factory

Terminator Salvation
2009 | USA | Dir. McG
Christian Bale, Sam Worthington

I will put this very simply – without time travel a Terminator movie fails.  Let me explain.  In the first Terminator film a bad ass robot comes back through time and is a real challenge to destroy because he is from the future and made of crazy technology.  T2: The same bad ass robot fights a more upscaled, badder ass robot from further in the future. T3: T2, but add boobs to make an even badder ass robot.  Ok, have you caught onto the trend?  The franchise works because it pits us versus almost unstoppable, future technology.  To have a Terminator movie in which you are already in the future and already using said future technology in which the most bad ass robot you fight is the same one from the first movie, well, what is the point?

Also, McG is not a name…