"I Won't Be Back"

Rating: 1/10 (24 June 2009)

At one point while suffering through Terminator 4 in the theater, I thought: "Maybe these people getting waterboarded don't have it so bad". Terminator: Salvation is a stunning train wreck of a movie. While watching, you think back to Christian Bale's leaked meltdown in which he went off on the Director of Photography, and you begin to sympathize with the actor. The thought of signing up to appear in this disaster has the potential to inflict serious damage on his star power in Hollywood. What has happened to the Bale of American Psycho and The Machinist? The flashes of brilliance he showed in those films have all but disappeared, and now appears to be a serious contender for a razzie. Don't believe the "we were filming a very serious scene" excuse. This is a film about Robots fighting each other. Bale must realize the intention of appearing in mindless summer fare such as this is to not try and one up Brando In The Godfather.
Director "McG" apparently felt it would be a good idea to make T4 seem like a ripoff of The Tranformers. This "director" may think he has a hip moniker, but his approach to this material is anything but. Bale will most likely look back on this experience as the bad decision which drove him to suffer an emotional breakdown, where he assaulted family members and lashed out at co-workers. Hopefully more audio recordings surface, because I can assure you he was going off Glengarry Glen Ross style on people behind the scenes every chance he got, and I cannot blame him. Hearing those would no doubt be 100,000 times more entertaining than the steaming piece of excrement called T4 - the franchise-killing finale to a once great science-fiction series.
"I Won't Be Back" Ah-nuld may as well have said during his CGI-ed cameo.