Run screaming from this train-wreck of a movie!!!!

Rating: 1/10 (22 May 2009)

As a big fan of the first two Terminator movies I was very excited when I heard that an A-list actor like Christian Bale was involved with T4, especially after the terrible T3. I could not have been more disappointed. I don't even know where to begin to describe how just horrendously bad this movie is, if I was not out with my family, I would have walked out about a half hour into the show. The story sucked, the direction sucked, the acting sucked and the special effects sucked. The acting, Christian Bale cannot act, he sucked! He was just awful, which explains why he blew up at that guy who screwed up his scene, he knew he was on a sinking ship and had no way out. Good direction is so important, more important then the actor, because if you have a good director he makes the actor perform to his(the director) satisfaction, not the actors. All I can say is Bale was way off or he has always had good direction, which McG did not or could not provide. McG cannot direct, it was a complete mishmash of unintelligible dialog and less intelligent scene focus, one after another, like a bad video game cut scene. One impossible scenario to the next, one ridiculous scene followed by a an even more ridiculous one. The CGI and special effects were just awful, most are below B-flick quality, nothing looked real, the budget for this film was in the neighborhood of $200 million and I have no idea where it was spent because again, a bad video game cut scene has better special effects. I wanted it to be good, even after I had heard that it was going to be bad but this exceeded by a large margin my most hopeful wishes that it would be good.