In a phrase Hugely Disappointed!

Rating: 6/10 (7 June 2009)

OK! Where do I start, and my inability to provide a starting point should give you some idea of this film. I had hoped for so much after the farce that was Terminator 3, unfortunately it never materialised. It will go down in history for me as one of those films that had all the best bits in the trailer! Let's look at one significant part of the film, it is obvious by the end of the film that the Resistance have yet to perfect the ability or know how to send a Terminator (I'll called them T or T's from now on) back to prevent the killing of John Connor's mother or indeed John Connor himself. I might add here that I wish he had done at the end of T-2 then we wouldn't have been privy to Christian Bale's performance, I was unsure if he was the right choice when it surfaced he would get the JC role, his portrayal proved it. Now I agree it is a hard, complex role to cast but for me it was just Bruce Wayne without the cheesy voice and complete lack of personality. As such and in tune with The Dark Knight he was blown off the screen by a supporting cast member, just as Heath Ledger took the credit there, Sam Worthington (aka Marcus) stole the show here. Anyway back to my point, remember I said they haven't yet realised the ability to send Terminators back, and if you cast your mind back to the end of T-2, "Arnie's" T killed himself by lowering himself into a vat of molten metal. Therefore in the fight scene with "Arnie", (for me a cheesy throwback and homage to the first two films) toward the end of this scene, when he is smothered again in molten metal he survives and continues to chase JC. A mistake if ever there was one, surely these T's are not as technologically advanced, a fact enforced with the lack of T-1000's as in T-2 and T-3. Then we have the surly media broadcasts by JC, what a farce, it mentions at the start that he may be a "false" hope yet everyone believes in him, no detractors and no challengers to his so called leadership. The film takes too long to get going, given SKYNETS dominance JC manages to infiltrate their headquarters far too easily, only for us to be told in a final "speech" that the war carries on??? So it wasn't the HQ then? Or was it? Anyway we now know it has been left open for another film, unfortunately! I thought this one would make up for the ludicrous T-3, it was better I will say that but James Cameron will either be sat there laughing saying that's why I stopped at T-2, or crying in disbelief at what they have done to his creation. Kate Connor spends the film remaining totally clean, well groomed and in perfect makeup, she obviously had secret knowledge of the only mall that had survived and had an endless supply of Max Factor – Moon Goodblood did well as Blair and Anton Yelchin gave a creditable performance as Kyle. The action takes a while to get going but when it does it is well paced and dramatic – as you would expect – but overall I must say I was hugely disappointed, the potential was there to make an absolute blockbuster, what they have done is created another weak film in the franchise. But money talks and I am sure T-5 will be there surely because it will bring in money