Lifeless and Heartless

Rating: 5/10 (29 May 2013)

The Franchise did not need salvaging, until now. This is such a heartless Movie that it immediately will be relegated to the Junkyard right next to the Michael Bay pile. Sure it has a lot of CGI Action that is a prerequisite in this type of thing and it all looks like others that look alike. Metallic colorless things of varying proportions whiz around and explode.
This is a loud and noisy Film with very little to add to the Mythology and frankly, very little to say. The Dialog consists of short sentences that are themselves infrequent except to set up the next Whiz-Bang. Fanatics about the Terminator Movies will also be left speechless (yea right), and angry. Casual viewers may be more forgiving.
Overall it isn't an awful experience, it is just so familiar with its FX and computer screens and lifeless look that it cannot be anything more than ho-hum. Christian Bale, in an absolutely uninspired walk-through, leads a Cast of other line-readers that are as lifeless as the Movie. This is Art as Product and seems manufactured by an assembly line from a Non-Human Institution like Skynet.