Why Danny Elfman...oh why...why oh why....why...oh god why...

Rating: 5/10 (6 June 2009)

I'll try to keep this short and sweet.
The performances of all the actors involved ranged from adequate to good, I did not find any problem whatsoever with Bales performance of Connor, in fact he was one of the better performers in the film.
The plot for me was absolutely fine and could have worked out excellently had there not been some key issues...
Firstly...McG...he didn't do a horrible job, the majority of the film was shot well, although I took issue with certain aspects of it and certain changes and ideas he brought to the franchise. Still those things could be forgiven. Why the small child with Kyle Reece though? I mean why? it was a pointless addition and distraction that added absolutely nothing to the film and took away something from the grittiness of it all. The child was one of several small things like that I believe he made an error with. I don't want to list them all.
Here was the MAJOR problem I had with this movie...DANNY ELFMAN and the WORST SCORE I have ever heard for a movie such as this. It sounded like I was watching Independence day not a terminator movie. Every nuance of sound that came from this score took away from the performance, took away from the plot, took away from the atmosphere in general...any sense of atmosphere or emotion or anything at all was 'terminated' as soon as Danny Elfman parped in with his nonsense.
It has to go down as one of the worst decisions in movie making history to employ this man to do the score...what the hell was wrong with the scores used by Cameron in the previous terminator movies? they were perfect, they had a darker more sinister feel.
I am 90% certain that had the score been the T2 score or something similar most of the people who disliked this movie would like it much more. The score dragged the whole movie down and made everything seem worse.
Seriously I cannot understand how professional movie making people could seriously think this score was in any way appropriate to this franchise.
Please god McG release a DVD version with a completely different score. Otherwise I will hold you personally responsible for the travesty you have unleashed on us.
I give this movie an 8/10 purely because I believe the basics of it are there, the actors are there, the plot is there...however if I fully consider the score as well I would give this movie 0/10. It really is that bad.