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They forgot to make the final boss fight the hardest and most dramatic one.
That’s the simplest way I can sum up why the movie feels “okay” instead of excellent. I loved the beginning of the movie, the way it set its own pace and tone very deliberately, with a long, dialogue-heavy Senate committee hearing — [...]

Most people will just think Terminator Salvation is boring, but it’s much more insidious than that for not being obvious in how void it is, what seems to me not just bad creativity, but void creativity, something that creates a vacuum that leaves less creativity in the world for having been introduced.

An attempt to be thoughtful about a movie that has a number of acute inherent flaws, with asides into the predicament of having complete artistic freedom.