Hasta La Levity, Baby Through the Past Darkly, 'Terminator'
Delivers Thrills  By John Anderson Special to The Washington
Post Wednesday, May 20, 2009  Ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger
came back from the future to kill Linda Hamilton so she couldn't
give birth to Edward Furlong, the "Terminator" series has been
on a time-illogical crash course with itself. Eventually the
future has to catch up with the past. Or something like that.
But it seems unlikely that audiences will be caring much about
the niceties of relativity when "Terminator Salvation" offers so
many outsize distractions: towering mechanical assassins;
writhing, giant-sub-sandwich-size chrome centipedes; humans
engaged in an epic battle for the planet itself -- and a movie
that mixes summer blockbuster hysterics with moody, visual grit.
Ex-music-video maker and "Charlie's Angels" director McG,
ignoring the constraints of the time-space continuum and
essential insanity of the franchise, approaches "Terminator
Salvation" with near-Talmudic gravity.