It's a great movie, the date of release... not so much

Rating: 8/10 (7 June 2009)

This movie has been thrashed in ways it shouldn't. The rating, the date of release, the Box-Office success, the critics, everything is going to make this movie go to hell before it's time.
This IS A GOOD MOVIE...yet, truth be told, this is not the usual Terminator Movie, but it's also true that the usual Terminator movie died with the 2nd one, the third is a bad combination of good elements.
This is something that must be taken as it is: An amazingly well done action movie with terminators and John Connor in it.
The issue with TS is that the nemesis is way too big... you'll see, the previous movies had A terminator to fight against, A terminator to center the evil part of the movie. Here we have countless terminators and a humongous skynet to fight against. It's quite logical to get the perception of emotionless characters if they're THAT hopeless.
McG did a great job directing, and the details are there to prove how dedicated he was to make action sequences the way they're meant to be made TODAY. (real speed on bombastic action, steady-cam on the big picture, first-person on the character centered sequences, detailed sound, etc.).
As to some people, the movie has many holes, filling them all will be insulting for fans and most smart people. The holes critics claim it has, is the way the characters deal with their reality, I mean, why has everything to be explained? It's not a 114 minutes long animated manual, it's a movie!. A movie that actually leaves many choices to be made on the sequels, a respectful movie, a movie meant to bee seen on the big screen.
Watch the movie before discussing it, it's worth it, at least for the eye candy it provides countless times.