A head scratcher

Rating: 5/10 (20 December 2009)

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. T2 is one of my favorite movies I've ever seen, the original is solid and T3.....well it was okay but nothing special. I admit I haven't watched the previous films in a long while so I can't decide whether or not that's why this movie's logic was pretty fuzzy to me.
I thought the first 2/3 of the movie were pretty intriguing and had potential to deliver a nice bang at the end. One problem I had though was the insistence of putting a pretty big reveal IN THE PREVIEWS of the movie. We already knew Marcus Wright was a terminator before the film even starts rolling, and that hurts some. It really could have heightened everyone's attention span if it was revealed in the middle of the film as it should have been. It completely ruined some subtle (and not so subtle) hints that were sprinkled in throughout the first hour or so.
As the last half hour of the movie unfolded I just saw too many things I didn't care for to give this movie a high rating. Just forget trying to shoe horn Arnold into the movie if he's not going to be there in the flesh (no pun intended). So Marcus can just rip a chip out of his neck and automatically Skynet has no control over him???? Also, the fight at the end wasn't too great in my opinion. John Connor trying (successfully mind you) to resuscitate Marcus with two live wires was pretty ridiculous. There were also a few TOO many references to the previous films.
It doesn't really make sense for Marcus, as noble as it was, to give his heart to John Connor. He did give up his body to advance Skynet's research, but he had no way of knowing that and they could have found someone else easily if he didn't offer himself. He didn't do anything with bad intentions in the rest of the movie either, so it just felt like a cheap way to try and tug on the audiences heart strings.
Last two things: Sam Worthington was good as others have said but you have to admit it's complete BS that his English accent drifted in and out of his speech. Seriously that's just inexcusable. Also, I have a major beef with the Bale's monologue at the end suggesting a sequel. "We will fight on" or whatever. Uh, Skynet is destroyed. There's nothing else to fight for unless you're including the money of ignorant film-goers, but I know all too well that it's probably true.