Transforminators

Rating: 3/10 (5 June 2009)

Yes - they TERMINATED the series with: "...3: Rise of the Machines". What we see now is just a failed attempt to resuscitate the corpse.
First of all, they should read Rachel Ballon, Syd Field and Robert McKee. THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO BUILD UP A SEQUEL! Genres, franchises and series do have their rules: one should be original within the formula. But this rudimentary show departs completely the essence of the Terminator movies, floundering into a cheap blockbuster.
The script is stuffy and messy - devoid of the stark elegance of those created by James Cameron. Hard to follow (read: tiresome and boring), and full of logical flaws. Just imagine: in "Terminator 1", "...2" and "...3", the machines send back in time various cyber-assassins to kill either John Connor, or his mom. Now they have HIS DAD (still a teenager!) in the Skynet grip - and they let him live!) The cyborg coming from the past (so to speak) is from another story.
The huge machines (harvesters, motorminators, hydrobotos, hunters/killers - or what were their names) are from another story too: from "Transformers", friends and neighbors! Just enough to name this sad work "Transforminators"! But the worst is the scene when the first T-800 comes to life... bearing, of course, Arnie's face - ripped off from some olden goldie and digitally patched-up here (just for a few instants, to ingloriously die about as many seconds later). Preposterous! Plainly ridiculous!