Very Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (31 May 2009)

I was very much looking forward to this. Christian Bale, a terminator movie, it had all the ingredients for success..
But, after the credits rolled, i walked out of the cinema feeling somewhat, deflated. the friend i was with also felt the same way.
in a way, its hard to put down exactly what was wrong with the movie. the cinematography, CGI was all okay. the acting was also okay.
i think it was generally that the script was a bit poor, the story was also kinda draggy. also, i was expecting a lot more men v terminator epic kind of battles, but apart from a couple of fight scenes, a lot of them were repetitions of previous terminator movies.
as my friend said, all in all, it was very predictable.
the other nagging thing that i had, was the huge number of plot holes in the movie which just didn't ring true.
i mean, they are quite a few years into the way, and they are still able to field aircraft and helicopters (which crash or get blown up regularly)? whats up with that.
and how can skynet allow them to just operate airbases etc like that.
the weapons (and their effectiveness) in this show also don't really make much sense. they seem to be much more effective here with standard carbines, than in the previous terminators... that just didn't make any sense to me.
so apparently we are led to believe, that kyle reese is to be termninated. but, when he is captured, instead of just killing him they put him in lock up? again.. just didn't make any sense with me.
and oh, john connor, can infiltrate an entire skynet base, just by himself, and with an eye taken from a terminator? that was just ridiculous.
finally, the way that they blow up the aircraft on the bridge.. that was also nonsensical and defied the laws of gravity.. i think the director was looking at too many transporter movies when he planned that scene.
all in all, very very disappointed.