A major disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (26 July 2009)

Like millions others I am a very big fan of the Terminator series. In my wait for the movie I watched both the seasons of "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" only to watch this movie and regret it.
The first Turn Off was the PG-13 rating that really took away so much potential from the action scenes. The second was Christian Bale trying too hard with no actual conviction. And the third most horrid part was the mere stupidity of carrying pea-shooters when they already knew they can't even scratch cyborgs with it. This is something that i realized in the TV series as well. I kept thinking why has it never crossed their mind to send a team to the past for research and development of weapons that would actually hurt these machines.
Okay I have some reservations for John Connor as well. The legend that he is portrayed to be through out the series require some special skill for the audience to acknowledge his importance. It is the first time that we get the chance to see The John Connor that the machines fear.Yet he's just shown as a paranoid soldier with some hind knowledge of these machines. No special skill like being a genius for making a killer virus that would eventually kill Sky Net or a natural born instinctive soldier with the agility that the machines find hard to match (with at least the T-600/T-800 models) or any other specialty that would ultimately lead to the fall of the machines. But instead he is just a common soldier forced by circumstances to become the leader of the Resistance. In the current scenario i don't see why no one else can replace him as a leader of the Resistance.
One star was my initial rating but for the return of T-800 (Arnold), which was really the best scene of the movie, I am giving it 3 stars.