Terminattor - Gotta catch em' all!

Rating: 6/10 (7 June 2009)

As a fan of the Terminator series I was extremely interested to see this film, even though I was disappointed that they were going to do a terminator movie without Arnold being the lead. He IS The Terminator, and no man can replace him. Then they revealed that Christian "Hey I'm in every damn movie they make these days" Bale was going to be John Connor. What was wrong with Nick Stahl? Okay, maybe he lacks the charisma and character to play the harsh military leader that Connor should be, but why did they have to pick Bale? And yeah, he tried to speak with this weird voice that just remained me of the ridiculous voice of the new Batman. I mean, Bale doesn't have this stupid voice in real life, so why to include it in this film also?
But yeah, the action is good, even though it was much more CGI than it was in the earlier movies, which made it stale. I felt like watching a new Transformers flick, where there really is no breaks from the action, which really hurts the story. I think they could have had a great story involving the questions of what is humanity and what differs us from the machine, but instead we had all this CGI-action, which really was not as awesome as it was in T3 for example. Also a BIG minus for them to spoil and exploit one of the only twists in this movie in all the trailers. WHY did they do it? I just can't understand.
Other thing that I find very stupid is the amount of different terminators. There were at least 7 different type of terminators roaming around, and for some reason it reminded me of Pokémon. You know, gotta catch em' all and stuff like that. In the previous films, there were just T800's and the larger war-machines in the future, and then the special liquid types, put in this future there were terminator robots that made no god damn sense. And the weapons... where were the laser rifles and all that cool stuff they showed us in the little flashbacks (and forwards) of the previous movies? No, they were not there.
Actually the entire feeling of despair that was present in the flashbacks of the first movie is not there. They were not fighting for their lives every goddamn second as they should have been. It feels like the resistance is kicking ass with nearly zero casualties. That is the mood of this film. It is not as dark and desperate as it should have been, and that is a great minus. It does not make you care for their fight, as really it feels like Skynet is the weaker one.
Now I would have rated this 5/10 without the few little - but still so awesome - tributes to the previous movies. They made me cheer in the theater.
And you got to give bonus for Anton Yelchin. I thought this kid was crap because of his bad work in Star Trek, but he was actually the best actor in this entire movie.
If you want brainless action like Tranformers, go watch this movie. If you want great action AND awesome story like the first and second movie, stay away. I think the now-canceled TV-series Sarah Connor Chronicles was much better than this for a Terminator fan.