Terminator Salvation is just plain bad. Some of the FX are cool and the cinematography is good but the movie doesn't make one iota of sense, the dialogue is terrible, the action scenes are laughable at times, and the whole thing takes itself WAY too seriously. There were some moments from the old movies but it wasn't an homage or a nod, it was an awkward and obvious "Hey remember this!".

I'd say the movie had plot holes but I'm not sure it really had a plot. The ending drags and just gets more and more ridiculous as it goes on. There's a key moment in the climax that reminded me of a joke from Pineapple Express. It's awful. I really don't know what else to say. It's not even paced well enough to be so bad it's funny.

This is just a bad movie. Unless you think things blowing up is cool or get off by watching people fire shotguns at robots, I recommend that you save yourself the time and money.