It had all the right parts, but no glue to hold it together.

Rating: 8/10 (31 May 2009)

Christian Bale, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Worthington, and all those awesome robots, and McG's rough realistic directing seemed that this movie would be a surefire box office smash, but something was missing.
I mean you had Bale's awesome intensity, Howards innocent beauty, and Worthington's interesting character, and action nearly all the way through, so what was missing? It took me a while to figure this out, but when it comes down to it it just didn't have the magic.
I mean T1 and T2 were awesome. Epic is the word that comes to mind. And I liked the third one as well, though there are plenty that thought it was stupid. I actually found it quite enjoyable with the one on one fight scenes with the TX, and the beginning of the takeover of Skynet. That was all pretty neat. And oh not to mention the TX herself Kristanna Loken. Let's just say she was real easy on the eyes.
But let me get back to the movie at hand. I believe the film didn't work because the relationships between the main actors failed to pull it off. The first and most essential thing that this film needed was a passionate yet realistic relationship between Bales, and Howard's characters. I mean before I saw it I thought it would go great, but they just weren't into each other man! And that was lame.
The second was the relationship between Worthington's character and Bloodgood's. It had a lot of potential, but Bloodgood (although very beautiful) does not have the acting chops to make it work. And everyone is giving Worthington acclaim (don't get me wrong, he was good), but there was some scenes where he was just void, and it would of worked better if he showed some emotion.
And by the time the film is over and done, the first thing that came to my mind was, "Oh." When it should of been, "Whoa."
In short, what I mean by missing the magic means that it just didn't have the man- the person who is The Terminator. And that man and person is Arnold Schwarzanneger. A man who was walking out of the theater said it perfectly...
"It's just not the same without Arnie."
And he was right, it's just isn't the same without him.