Should have been Epic

Rating: Null/10 (19 May 2009)

This film is rife with cheesy b-movie schtick and implausibilities. It starts out OK, with minimal character development and some perfunctory action, but eventually fizzles out in the third act. As far as I can remember, nothing truly interesting happens. Yes, there's action galore, but it's ham-fisted and uninspired. I nodded off a half dozen times in the last 20 minutes and left the theater in a sleepy haze with not much of a memory of what I had just seen.
Bale is just OK as John Connor, utilizing the same vocal affect he used in The Dark Knight, while the other guy, having what seemed like more screen presence, still just wasn't given much material to work with. The characters are essentially cartoons and not very interesting ones at that. As such I felt very little if any empathy for any of the characters.
I expect 9 to 16 years olds might like this movie but then, that's probably the target audience based in part on the PG-13 rating.
In the end, this is a forgettable action film that will be Christian Bale's "Catwoman".