My rating was for the effects

Rating: 4/10 (15 July 2009)

Explosions, big budget, robots and Christian Bale; normally very enticing features. But this movie was diabolical. It dragged on and the story could have been completed within half an hour. Trim the fat and make a better movie. The effects however were mindblowing, unlike the script. McG did a great job directing but with so many plot holes and confusions within the script it beggars belief why the hell Christian Bale signed up to this crap. With rumours of a fifth one to take place in modern day Britain of all places, this needs to be terminated; now. The time line set up in the previous films are almost discarded within this one and the fifth film in the series. I know die-hard terminator fans will slate my review but the truth needs to be heard. Can script writers actually come up with a decent script? With depth, surprising twists (that make sense even due to their surprise), interesting story lines and no plot holes? You can relate script writers to a famous saying; something about monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare; except the monkey could come up with a better script than the one here.