Don't think too much about this movie... you will start getting very disappointed!

Rating: 1/10 (11 June 2009)

(If you haven't seen this film, please do not read on) OK so after the terrible execution of terminator 3, I went into this with low expectations and to my pleasant surprise an hour and a half in I still had a smile on my face! Sam Worthington's performance is brilliant and he stole the show completely.
Now moving into the final 30mins of the film things started falling apart very very quickly - and by the end my heart had completely sunk... it was then in the pub after the film where you inevitably start thinking more about it that the real holes started appearing...
To make life easier I'm just going to list some the problems with this movie: 1. its a 12a. How can you make a terminator film a 12a???? The first movie was awesome because of its stark realism and utter darkness... and was an 18... you simply should not declaw a franchise such as this, its heartbreaking.
2. The resistance has helicopters and aircraft and seemingly roam around quite freely!!? In the flash backs in T2 they are struggling for any kind of movement anywhere. Via the satellites of the world, skynet would see any aircraft in the sky at anytime and simply destroy it... that is of course ignoring the niggling wondering as to where they get all the fuel from!?? They disappear into bunkers but the aircraft are just parked outside...
3. John Conner fights with a terminator and manages to block its strikes... oh dear. More than this where are the laser guns!!?? At the beginning of the film he shoots through the terminators head with a standard rifle... later on bullets are just bouncing of the terminator!!?? Why do they even bother carrying handguns!!? 4. Marcus is MORE human like than the Arnie terminator that is only developed at the very end of the film!? Arnie was barely passable as a person in his responses, movement etc and had a real sense of being a cold cyborg... Marcus was far too human like.
5. this might need more thought but Skynet identified Kyle early in the film... how would it know who he is when he has not yet been sent back in time? 6. John manages to walk into Skynet - even with Marcus disabling a gun turret this is just ridiculous.
7. The resistance then manages to just fly into Skynet completely unchallenged to rescue the captives... they are there for at least 10mins and when John comes out there still aren't any terminators shooting at them!!!?? this is where my heart really started breaking.
8. How many scenes can you steal from T2 when John is fighting the terminator at the end??? 9. Why was the terminator throwing John around?? How many times could it just have broken his neck with one hand?? 10. Skynet just allows Marcus to defy it and rescue John - in its own headquarters!!? Why was he not just turned off there and then??? 11. I'm sorry but the most insane part of the entire film - a heart transplant by a vet in the middle of the desert. antibiotics are hard to come by, but the drugs to stop John rejecting a new heart are completely abundant!! And our vet has managed to learn how to do specialist transplant surgery... oh dear.
There are more but i've lost the will to carry on. In short this doesn't not stay true to the original films at all - its a Disney version that has lost all its grounding in reality and hence all its edge and adrenaline.
My review - heartbreakingly bad.