No salvation even in loads of CGI

Rating: 3/10 (12 June 2009)

Another CGI, video game, shoot 'em up, but it's supposed to be the Terminator franchise which is above that sort of thing, or is it? It's been given a 12A but the opening sequence includes an execution by lethal injection! The only tension is whether the character of Marcus is there to defend or kill John Conner - the rest just bowls along without focus, plot, or script, pinching from Transformers, Steve McQueen's motorbike jump in 'The Great Escape' and the smell of napalm in the morning from'Apocalypse Now' amongst others. This is a world where some resistance fighters grub around with tatty trannies,no fuel,little food, and grubby clothing, while the organised resistance fights with head mikes, Apache helicopters, and A10 aircraft, and its pilots wear imitation Gucci! By the way, Skynet Airways does not fly from San Francisco to Bakersfield (where the resistance airforce carries on quite undisturbed), and Marcus' stolen dirty overcoat is flameproof, unlike Arnie's synthetic skin!While the plot where every machine is programmed to kill Conner and Reese on sight, sees the latter locked up in a cell by robots so that he can be rescued by his son! Of course, it's not the machines' fault, it's a rogue human dying of cancer who sets up Judgment Day! Come back Arnie and James Cameron - all is forgiven. The TV series disappeared up its own backside, and this will just trundle along (there are fourteen years still to go before Arnie kills John Conner! While the real disappointment for female fans is the fact that Kate Brewster just moons about as a pregnant earth mother ( presumably Claire Danes took one look at the script and said no with the second word being off!). Good for teenage boys to look and be anaesthetised by violence - you can be thrown around by robots and still walk away with just a scratch!! Please get some help for T5 and T6 and three letter directors ar4e rubbish!