terribly disappointing (but you kinda knew it would be)

Rating: 2/10 (22 June 2009)

OK. First off, I AM A HUGE TERMINATOR FAN, y'know? the sort of tedious person who says all the lines out loud until people get annoyed, lol Therefore I will always try to side with anything 'Terminator' BUT.... This was utter tripe.
A story would help, but then story lines don't seem required by 90% of US movies nowadays as the industry has destroyed all it's potential paying consumer base over recent years in it's continual marketing-stats driven blunder towards a cinema/DVD userbase of almost exlusively American teenagers... and lets face it, anything that requires even 1 braincell is overload for them, so the ideal seems to be: keep it as stupid as possible.
Bale is just terrible in this, like you know he hates the film and isn't even trying to disguise his utter contempt and detatchment from the job in hand. In all truth, no amount of acting skills could have salvaged this.
The worst thing was that in all the previous Terminator films, the 'resistance' stay inside by day, venturing out only at night to take on the machines with basic weapons as any true 'resistance' would do. In this film the 'resistance' has huge bases with massive arcraft hangers and gigantic hi-end tech control centers etc. Yeah right! about as ludicrous as making a ww2 'French Resistance' film where the resistance have huge airfields and bases that mysteriously the Germans can't detect or find... BUT This is a war against machines; machines which can sniff out even a lone individuals in a desert hiding under a rock, yet somehow 'The Machines' cant detect and find the resistance's massive infastructure? Oh come On!
In summary, to make a movie likethis you simply ask CGI guys to design, build and render a bunch of action scenes; drop them all in a hat, pull them out at random and then cobble them together with any nonsense that vaguely glues them together in a linear sequence.
Glad I saw it, but in a word: tosh probably it's one of those films you dislike in the cinema but then find a lot better watching at home on DVD when you aren't putting so much expectation onto the thing.