Pretty Dang Bad (Spoilers)

Rating: 2/10 (26 May 2009)

I have been concerned about this film since I heard McG was set to direct. The dude who brought us Charlie's Angels is making T4??? I knew trouble was on the horizon. Then it was rated PG-13, even more doom and gloom. The film is about TERMINATORS for crying out loud. With McG at the helm and a Walt Disney rating, I went in with some low expectations, but what I wasn't ready for was just how bad the story was going to be. Will they ever make a movie where John Connor is the leader of the resistance? I am so tired of waiting to see him lead the charge. I want a film where we are in the future and John is leading the humans and kicking Skynet's robotic butt across the planet. The "resistance command" treated John like he was a nothing and I am not interested in seeing that. I want to see the humans fight back under John and win. Also, where were all the cool weapons we saw the resistance use in the flashbacks scenes in the previous films? We have cybernetic organisms in play but an M-4 is the best we can come up with to fight them? I love the Terminator franchise, but I think we are better with just the first two; I am going to close my eyes and try to forget I that this movie exists.