Surprisingly good! But in this movie John Connor is an impotent, indecisive, half-wit!

Rating: 7/10 (23 December 2003)

I was prepared for the worst ... but hey it was pretty good! I'd give this movie about 7/10 ... it could have been 8/10 or better ... were it not for the badly scripted role of the John Connor character. In this movie John Conner is an impotent, indecisive, half-wit!
After the T2 you'd think this guy would be more clued in! Yet in here he seems pretty confused by the whole scenario. He even goes and has a little hissy fit in the mausoleum "why me? why me?" ... idiot your mom's been telling you this your whole life ... now's not the time to act like a pathetic twit! This is the guy who's going to lead the human race? He was supposed to be trained to be a soldier and a leader ... yet he's reduced to the role of a spectator in most of the action scenes! In some of the most climactic scenes Connor is portrayed to have no sense of urgency! There are several scenes where, in the face of danger, he hesitates and stares dumbly at the approaching menace before running away rather impotently. There's even a scene where he and his 'future wife' are frozen in shock as the TX approaches ... and all the while a gun is lying on the ground in front of them. Guess who picks up the gun? The girl! By the end of this movie I want John Conner to die! I don't care if the whole human race will die with him.
If this is the best leader we can come up with its about time we're all replaced by machines.