C Minus

Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2009)

OK, they DO need money, and a franchise like this called for peeling another skin off it.
But even with the massive basic elements, and small portions of ingredients stolen from Mad Max, Matrix, Blade Runner and who know where else, it is just junk food.
Epic Flaw: how on earth could a 10 storey high steel machine sneak behind a wrecked gas station in the middle of the desert so that only a mute girl can 'sense' it's there???
Question Mark: why 2018? With todays achievements in robotics (major improvement is they can possibly walk up stairs without stumbling) is it really believable that they would run and jump in 10 years time?
The action scenes aren't that bad, thanks to McG, but they could have been better too. Hope he will get his chance to a better script and maybe he could step on Michael Bay's path, or similar.
Now this: you can wait till the DVD or even till the satellite release, don't be bothered now.