Pointless

Rating: 1/10 (12 August 2009)

OOoh! Mindless action sequences, explosions and car chases followed by; more mindless action sequences, explosions and Batman! In the near future, where machines have not quite taken over and the resistance is not quite as desperate yet, a Manbot is facing existential crisis. Lucky for us, he teams up with plucky side kicks and then decides to travel north, instead of wallowing in his existential problema. Lot's of destruction and mayhem will follow. Then there is the mandatory hot chick ,doing the damsel in distress routine, while trying to look as sexy as possible.
Then there is John Batman Connor, who is not quite the mysterious resistance leader we were lead to believe, but rather a boring fellow with raspy (Batman!) voice. He trying to make use of this soundwave device, but as a plot point, it's incredibly dull. He also has a cute wife who looks incredibly fresh in a post apocalyptic world.
Terminator 4 isn't really a terminator movie. It's a collection of average action sci-fi flicks of the recent past. It is a collection of worn out ideas and clichés. Gone are themes of paranoia and possible futures and destinies. Even the world around the characters is something taken out of recent video games and the latest Resident evil movie.
Terminator 4 doesn't add anything into the broader story line. Did we really need to know what Kyle Reese was like as a teenager? The whole movie seems pointless.