Not bad for a Music Video Producer

Rating: 6/10 (18 June 2009)

Now some of the critics are slating this, why ? well I think its because they don't like the following..
1.The Director/Producer has a silly name 2.McG comes from a background making Music Videos so he shouldn't be making movies.
Well get over it and comment on the film on its own merits.
The premise of this movie is to bring John Conner and his father together in one place so they can be terminated together this ensures that Kyle cannot travel back in time nor can john send him back. OK so the old Time Parodox is "well we will kill Kyle and then John won't exist" but John does exist in the future so the machines need to make sure they kill two birds with one stone. The machines do this by getting an infiltrator which is an Human Robot hybrid, who in a previous life was executed on death row and donated his body to Cyberdyne, step in Marcus. Marcus thinks he's human and acts human in every way expect his virtually indestructible. He wakes up in the future confused and disorientated and makes his way to the city where he meets and befriends Kyle Reese, who in turn decide to find John Conner after hearing his radio Broadcast.
The action sequences in the movie are in the style of Mad Max and Die Hard movies, and exciting to watch. The Terminators themselves are easy to dispatch as they are early pre T800 models. There are things wrong with the film i.e John's wife's unexplained pregnancy and a bit of dodgy camera work.
Nods to the previous movies in the Franchise are a plenty including using the soundtrack from T2 and I'm sure that a nod to the Great Escape got in there as well on more than one occasion.
As for the Acting I've never seen an Bale film before so I can't judge his performance, but I think the strong parts in it were Marcus and Kyle.
As for Arnie fans, he pops up in Cgi and is convincing we know its CGI but it still works.