I enjoyed the action as light entertainment, but I don't really know what was going on.

Rating: Null/10 (29 January 2010)

The day after my wife and I saw this movie, on DVD, we were discussing it. We tried to make sense of the story but we couldn't. For example, why was John Connor's dad a teenager in the future when John was a 30-something adult? Maybe in a different movie he was sent to the future, but I suppose you need to have fairly intimate knowledge of all the Terminator stories to sort all that out.
But ultimately we didn't worry about it. The movie is of course just light, action entertainment. Nothing is to be taken seriously. There is lots of action, and lots of special effects, mostly done very nicely.
In general I like the roles Christian Bale creates, and here he is John Connor. Helena Bonham Carter is Dr. Serena Kogan. Anton Yelchin is Kyle Reese, who in fact is John Connor's biological father. John has to protect Kyle from the terminators otherwise John will never have existed, and the world will not be saved from the machines.
Tense stuff!!
BTW, Bryce Dallas Howard plays Kate Connor. I hadn't seen her in a while, and I found myself wondering if she had a nose job. Her nose seems narrower and more perfect than I remember it. Well, doesn't matter. (PS - I re-watched parts of her earlier movies, "Lady in the Water" and "The Village" and I believe I was wrong, her nose appears to be the same in all of those. My apologies, Bryce.)