Number Four Scores

Rating: 8/10 (15 July 2009)

At last--a Terminator movie that's as well-thought-out as the original, without the tedious sentimentalizing of the second film or the redundant Schwarznegger character... oh no, not him again!... of the third. And in fact the brief T-800 cameo returns the Schwarznegger character to the nasty, vicious people-killer he should have stayed all along.
In this film there is a Terminator who is trapped in the classic conundrum, hovering between damnation and salvation and not able to reach either when he tries for it. One misses Clair Danes as Kate Connor, but the dynamics of the anguished Bale - Worthington - Bloodgood trio add the human depth that this techno-saga needs.
I understand that a host of writers contributed besides Brancato and Ferris... whoever you are, congratulations.