not a patch on the originals

Rating: 3/10 (7 June 2009)

This film just fails at almost every level.
The Terminators remind me of Dr Evil from the Austing Powers Films. They formulate overly elaborate easily escapable traps which results in the protagonists inevitably winning. Why not just kill your enemy as soon as the opportunity presents itself? Why play a ridiculous and intricate game of cat and mouse, when the chance for a sure victory can be attained almost immediately.
The seeming near invincibility of the Terminators from the first films seems to have disappeared. Now, Christian Bale appears capable of kicking a Terminator and forcing him off.
The sheer number of plot holes beggars belief. This being my first review (and I have been driven to write it as a result of my feeling of extreme outrage in consequence of having had to sit through what is best described as the complete bastardisation of a classic franchise), I am anxious to avoid including any spoilers, and so I won't delve any deeper into this at this point.
The acting is, with the exception of Michael Ironside, universally awful, and this is strange given the powerful and convincing performances we have come to expect from, in particular Christian Bale in, for example, Equilibrium and American Psycho, and Helena Bonham Carter in, well, everything.
Anyway, I am wary of the 1000 word limit, and as such, will end there, with a plea that Mr. McG is never allowed to direct another film until such time as I am dead and buried.