Cameron & Schwarzenegger how we miss thee...

Rating: 4/10 (22 June 2009)

Well, I don't honestly know what to say about this film. I would like to start off though and say that I have huge respect for the Terminator series and that James Cameron made a cinematic masterpiece creating the first 2 with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800...However.
After the third film kinda left a really bad impression on me I was geared for a 4th one...That was 2003, now fast forward 7 years later and we finally get a 4th Terminator film. Sadly it doesn't live up to its hype.
McG, Not Cameron is the director of the 4th film and his directing skills are kinda mediocre compared to Cameron and Salvation compared with Rise of the Machines kinda lost the feel that the first 2 films had, also films kinda place way too much in CGI effects and this film compared with the third film fell flat on there faces.
Casting wise isn't that bad, in the third film Nick Stahl played John Connor whereas now Christian Bale takes the role and he doesn't do a bad job but its abit difficult to say what I think about him in Terminator. Schwarzenegger only ever appears as just a facial appearance since he is now the Governor of California & all and too me its just not enough.
The action scenes are okay but a little over the top and kinda don't belong in the Terminator series and the plot I did think was abit halfarsed and was extremely slow.
Need I go on? Basically this isn't Terminator, this just feels and looks more like a generic action film with the characters from Terminator and all this hype that was built up for the 4th film and it doesn't have any feel that Cameron made for the first 2 in the series. Not even all the references in the series couldn't pull this series out of the ground anymore.
Terminator 1 & 2 were the best, 3 kinda fell flat and 4th was just a bomb. Save your money and don't see this film.