Cameron: 'Terminator Salvation wasn't fresh'

James Cameron has claimed that Terminator Salvation lacked originality.

The Avatar director, who conceived and helmed the first two instalments in the science fiction series, told UGO that he felt McG's film didn't break new ground.

"Interestingly, I think McG did a good job in the sense... I think he was almost too referential to the mythos of the first and second film. He over-quoted them in a way," Cameron said. "It didn't feel to me to be enough of a reinvention. The thing we did with the second film is that we reinvented the first film completely; spun it on its ass and made the Terminator the good guy, and came up with a whole new concept for a villain, it felt fresh.

"I didn't feel the fourth picture was fresh enough. It also lacked a certain stamp of authenticity because Arnold [Schwarzenegger] wasn't in it. I mean, he was in it briefly, digitally, but that's not the same thing."

However, Cameron praised his Avatar star Sam Worthington's performance in Salvation, calling him "remarkable because, well, I think Sam is remarkable in anything he does".