very hard to say, there's something wrong with it.

Rating: 5/10 (28 May 2009)

OK I like movies with effects, action and etc. But sometimes the story needs to work. This story didn't work. TERMINATOR 1 machines go back in time to kill John Conner's mother, then in Terminator 2 they come to kill john conner, then in Terminator 3 they kind of had given up and went after John's fellow soldiers until they accidentally ran across John conner. All of which makes sense, right? But it has been assumed that since this horrible thing will happen in the future which is what sold us on that the whole time travel thing was possible. Kind of like how we went to Jupiter in 2001 ....right right right! But in this film they hadn't even approached the time travel deal yet the war is seemingly really close to ending. Seemed like a stretch here as they cant find gas but yet they can travel through time.
Second plot hole, and a fairly obvious one. The Terminators needed to look like skeletons in order to pass for humans. In this movie they, oh I don't know , kept forgetting to put the skin on or something. Which to me tells me that they weren't even trying to pass them off for human, so there is no point. Even then it seemed like an odd decision to make as far as infiltrating goes as all they need are metal detectors. I cant even get through airport metal detector with 25 cents in my pocket.
Now all of these fairly obvious points aside, which includes the time travel issue of changing a future not made yet severely alters the circumstance. Kind of like someone telling you that you will die at age 80 so you live more dangerously and get killed prematurely cause you let your guard down.
Again, that aside, it needed to be fun. In all of the other movies they had some element of fun and even humor. I mean come on the "Talk to the hand" in terminator three was hilarious! This had nothing, just grim to grimmer. Even Shindlers list had moments of levity. Considering that this was about war, thats usually where comedy suddenly appears. IE: Fullmetal jacket, Saving private Ryan, and etc all have moments of levity.
Then next part on this list of issues would probably be the transformer influence on the bigger machines. Yep, while they didn't disguise themselves as, how did young John put it "A pack of cigarettes", they did have the transformer sound. Hard to type or even describe but was for a moment some other people and even myself was saying "wait a minute!" which meant I wasn't the only one who noticed.
Though I will give it this one, Bale and the other fella did a good job. The cinematographer gave it a good feel, editing was excellent, and music was not to shabby except for the opening. I think what it was was the fact that the new Star trek surprised my expectations completely and is a hard act to follow. So depends on your mood too. One movie shows an optimistic view of the future and the other one is a more pessimistic view. And right now we can use a little more optimism.