The movie that Hollywood (not the franchise) needed

Rating: 7/10 (7 June 2009)

Decent enough and enjoyable.
Some brilliant new characters and surprisingly ones that the viewer actually gives a hoot about! On that point I think I found that the only character I didn't care about at all was John Connor and at the end of the film (which was incredibly rushed and just seemed to stop all of a sudden a la Halo 2!) I thought that there may be an ultimate incredible twist but alas McG just isn't that clever and probably didn't want the bother of thinking that deep for the next 2 instalments.
Enjoyed the cg elements and the introduction of the first set of terminators seemed well developed but I just wish that they didn't feel the need to include Arnie, just to stave off any elements of appearing to rely too much on the previous films and tick every single box.
Kyle Reese was very well done and congratulations to Anton Yelchin for nailing what I thought was a very credible performance and including of Michael Biehn's characteristics.
Could have been a lot worse but should have been better