Nothing new. Well done. Worth watching?

Rating: 5/10 (4 June 2009)

Many parts of the film were clinging on the back of the first two terminator movies. The creators felt too strongly that the story would carry itself where my essential problem is how it fits in exactly with the Terminator universe. Everything happens how you expect it to, with nothing new to add, giving the film an unfortunate shallow depth.
The action scenes are excellent, not over the top or too difficult to follow. Even from Charlie's Angels, we kind of understood that McG isn't a bad director, and this film was very fitting for a man of his experience. The musical score wasn't wasted either.
Scripting wasn't bad, it got worse, better, worse and so on, unaided by the actors who didn't seem to understand their characters very well (which I believe was due to poor character development). The more developed characters made up for that and Christian Bale made a great John Connor.
There are movies that are made for passion, and movies made for money. This was for money, and a good one for it. A slip road for a sequel with enough of the story left and enough decent action to move us onwards. Overall, it's a bit of fun. There's no reason to go out of your way to watch this unless that's your interest, but for me, I prefer films that are made for a better reason.