A Termination of the franchise

Rating: 3/10 (11 July 2009)

Absolutely horrific.
The only thing nice I have to say about this movie is that the preview rocked. It looked so epic and deep. I got the chills every time I streamed it on my PC.
I applauded the 2nd trailer for it when I went and saw another movie a couple months prior to the release.
"IF WE STAY THE COURSE WE'RE ALL DEAD!" I thought that line was going to be used in an extremely memorable context; That it would be almost as popular as "I'll be back". I thought it was going to be used in a dire situation which called for such intensity.
Nope.
It was used during some scene where dudes are hanging out in an aircraft hangar. Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention, but the scene was almost like a tourette's outburst. He's yelling at some dude over a radio. There's nothing really going on in the scene. Just some yelling with a few dudes standing around. That's it.
You'd expect him to be under fire from a giant horde of robots, him laying in a ditch screaming it into a radio link or something.
Nope.
Hangar with dudes. No dramatic music. Just out of place yelling into a mic.
Don't let me overshadow the other epic failures of this film with this irk of mine. I was just extremely excited for this film, and even dreamt of the preview every night - just days before the release.
Everything in this movie is forced. Every single thing. Nothing looks or feels natural. Hell, the flashback scenes of the soldiers vs. the robots in the earlier Terminator movies are MORE ENTERTAINING AND MEMORABLE than this whole movie.
I think somebody else said it here, and I'd like to reiterate: This movie makes T3 look like a masterpiece. I'm not joking. I'd rather watch T3 on an Ipod screen without sound than watch T4 on Imax.