As much as I enjoyed it, why this will not stand up

Rating: 3/10 (25 May 2009)

The Terminator legacy is dying... and I say that with the utmost respect. I understand what McG was trying to do - fun summer action blockbuster - and I don't doubt that it will be one. But, it breaks my heart to see the Terminator franchise relegated to a one-trick pony. Terminator 1 and 2 was fun and broke my heart in the same moment. But this has all been lost in the last two movies. The beauty of the initial Cameron movies was the humanity. The struggle that humans had to come to grips with - knowing the full weight of the technological apocalypse, but unable to follow its logical conclusion because of its heartbreaking empathy. Please movie studios, the next Terminator franchise - find your soul - find that one heroic emblem of humanity - whether it be the strong female role fighting for her son (and not the random pregnant lady that shows up every once in a while), whether it be the machine that finds his heart (and i know our new leading terminator was aiming for that - but the trailers showed more humanity than the film), whether it be the son fighting for his mother (not a tape recorder). Don't forget that empathy and love is what ultimately rules the human heart, judgment, wallet, and critique. Bring back the soul into the franchise that has been stripped of it as cybernet stripped us of our humanity.