Well I thought it was good

Rating: 9/10 (4 December 2009)

I have just watched the film on DVD and what a shame I didn't see it at the cinema....the special effects would have been awesome viewed on a large screen and heard through their sound system.
So the performances weren't Oscar material. They're not meant to be and anyone expecting that seriously needs to reviews their expectations of what they look for in this kind of film. It's good, honest escapism style entertainment and doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is. There's been a lot of criticism of Christian Bale as John Connor-personally I thought he was pretty good and carried of the role of a resistance leader pretty well. Sam Worthington was probably the best performance as Marcus although we probably all saw the revelation that he was a terminator coming a mile off. I would have liked to have seen more of Kate Connor seeing as she was so important in Terminator 3 and Moon Bloodgood's role could have been developed more. As it was felt these ladies were just there to inject a bit of female presence into the film.
The action scenes and visual effects were brilliant edge of the seat stuff and there were some nice touches during the film such as "come with me if you want to live" said by Kyle Reese to Marcus;"I'll be back" said by John to Kate Connor; Marcus as the terminator who didn't want to be a terminator (his distress at finding out was brilliantly portrayed); and of course the Arnie lookalike terminator towards the end of the film.
To sum up i'd say "does exactly what it says on the tin"......ie entertain!