Terminator IV is Classic Science Fiction

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2009)

Terminator IV is truly "classic science fiction:" it takes "stuff" we have to "deal with" in everyday life and puts our "stuff" in a context foreign enough where we (the audience including me) recognize a starkly contrasted reflection of ourselves: our strengths and our flaws . Even though James Cameron is nowhere-really to be found in the credits, both James Cameron's heart and soul are in Terminator 4; possibly when Stan Winston passed-away, James Cameron paid a little more attention to "his baby's" (The Terminator 1984) third off-spring. Subconsciously James Cameron always takes us back to Harlan Ellison's "Soldier" (story/episode on "The Outer Limits"); Ellison, Cameron, Winston, Gale Anne Hurd, and William Wisher are ALL genius storytellers and TERMINATOR IV would never have been as great an entry in Science-fiction without the genuine enthusiasm of the actors and entire production staff!!!!!! The people in the row behind me and in front of me didn't seem too enthusiastic about Terminator 4 and that's a little sad. The audience didn't seem to like American Gangster and Cat in the Hat and Speed Racer either . . . I guess I'm the one who's "off" Oh well: T4 is great . . . if you're twelve or a 38 year old parent taking his 12 year older to see it.
If you are in for extra-gore read the screenplay and novelization of The Terminator . . . The Terminator "wastes" the "Sarah Conners" is a way-grosser way!