post-apocalyptic mess.. with sour cream on top..

Rating: 5/10 (22 May 2009)

I'm not a terminator geek but I have watched the previous three and think they are great action flicks (the third may not be as great..) and so.. here we are.. fourth installment of much beloved series of robots kicking humanity in the behind because someone forgot to put a kill switch or at least Asimov 3 laws of robotic! (I'm looking at you programmers! oh and beta testers too!).
Decent start in introducing the characters. No real stories behind them.. i guess they expect moviegoers to know all about them before hand? nice action sequences.. a bit too much i think.. I mean do you really want to give everything up-front? with no story yet? oh they still use radio as mean of communication? was it encrypted? cool helicopter crash scene! (although unnecessary..).
As we go further into the movie, no real character development and more explosions! more robots of all sizes and shapes! more mind-numbing action sequences! is it too much to ask to tell us just a tiny bit info on the characters than just tossing them into random scenes and hope that we know what the hell their significance on the whole plot is? aka a bit more dialogues? no?.
Well.. I got what i wanted. In the form of them screaming and yelling (I guess it's their interpretation of how human will act in distress.. their only interpretation..). Still no telling what this movie all about and I have no idea who the characters are and their significance into the main plot. Speaking of plot. Is this movie about John or Marcus?.
Just when I think there won't be anymore wacky science on the works. Will I let a veterinarian do an open heart surgery on me? maybe.. given the circumstances. Will I let a veterinarian do an open heart surgery on me, with a donor that may not have the same blood type, with primitive equipment, in a freaking dessert? heck no .. just let me die!.
And so McG was kind enough to give us the morale of the story in the end. What makes us human? .. mm.. eerr.. we like explosions on top of explosions? and more explosions just.. because? I don't know. My ears are still hurting from deafening Elfman scores and my mind pretty much dead by the ridiculous plot. Oh and don't bother to encrypt your communication because even super computers in the future can't even figure out what "we are going to attack skynet at such such hour" means in plain English.
Conclusion: Good popcorn movie. Bad plot and terrible acting by extras (I know it's a small part, but I think we can do better than this. =D) dragged this movie down. 5/10.