DuracellEnergizer said:

Terminator 3 was lame, but not as lame as Terminator: Salvation. Instead of seing all those awesome glimpses of the War with the Machines from the first two films expanded to fill a feature length movie, we get watered-down tripe starring Christian Bale's ego.

As a Terminator movie, I think Salvation fails badly. But, if you forget about the franchise, and think of it as just a big blockbuster action movie, it's actually pretty decent, and way above average (though that's not saying much when you look at the movies that you compare it to) IMO.

I thought Bale was ok in it, not good but not bad. Though I never understood why they cast such a big name for his role, since his part was actually pretty generic and unimportant.