predictable and clichéd

Rating: 5/10 (30 July 2017)

mediocre sequel. question; who's fault is that? answer; its the audience and the producers who want to make money from them more then to entertain them with originality and entertainment. this was more of a remake than a sequel. while i'm in the audience, i kept hearing the neanderthals either complaining certain stunts weren't repeated or cheering when stunts were repeated. so when you cater to the lowest common denominator, you cant make art, you only make a two hour commercial. the first was fairly original with a somewhat clichéd ending. the time travel part was cool but its not that hard to keep to the rules of science of physics. movies are crap when obvious rules are broken and sequels are worse when they ignore their own history. IE, flesh or flesh covered only, so how did the liquid robot pass through the time portal? the over used cliché of the doctor not believing the patient. that scene should have been first, t2 lands outside the hospital, rescues Sara, shocks the doc who was berating her about t2 and we all laugh. then together they find the punk kid who is to save the world. the ending narrative was good about its all new, creating a new time line without a paradox. that is until the sequels ruined that and got more commercially stupid. i do so hope the franchise ends with Sara Connor riding her scooter to work as the last scene of the last movie as the time paradox closes around them. why? because they couldn't come up with a better idea than the tired one of technology from our own future. how does that ever work? we are not smart enough now to invent what we did in the future so it couldn't ever exist then. does that mean Einstein ensured are technological history by sending the wheel back in time to the neanderthals such as the ones cheering in this audience? why do movie makers think we are stupid and/or don't care that we can actually understand more than a grade 3 level of logic. maybe pandering to the lower classes makes money, but so does being original or t1 wouldn't have been so successful and then there wouldn't be any sequels. as with many badly thought out sequels, the performances were good. its not their fault what lines were given to them. if not for the acting, i would have walked out of the theater. the sfx and action were good, except for the truck jumping into the canal and still keeps going and then is able to out accelerate a very agile dirt bike. maybe the truck should have been part of the liquid robot too.