Pointless, but good quality

Rating: 7/10 (14 January 2010)

This film is not as bad as many say. It's biggest strengths are be the pretty solid production quality and the cinematography. Latter really has it's moments. Also, the movie features a surprisingly dark tone which I can usually only dream about regarding other blockbusters. refreshing. Unfortunately this barely saves the movie from the incontinent script, that seemingly no one had found a way to really handle. Instead the director and the actors (very noticeable on Bale who's still playing Batman) just seem to roll along with it, efficiently working towards their paycheck. They are doing an OK job by the way, given the conditions of course. We actually do have professional people here. So things happen, it looks good, it feels alright, let's ignore the plot holes but then towards the finale this whole thing becomes more and more dull and in the end it just declares itself absolutely pointless considering the big picture, pushing the movie into TV spin off terethory, which I found borderline criminal. Was this really the story of how John Connor got a new heart?
I seems that there's not too much more juice left in the Terminator lemon. Please, dear producers, have some foresight and invest in some new epic sagas. With platitudinous Star Wars needing to be resurrected for the third time soon, we're running out of so much as a dead horse to beat.