Wondering if negative reviewers enjoy good movies

Rating: 9/10 (26 May 2009)

I remember Terminator as a kid and watching Arnold's terminator repairing his eye in the hotel room and thinking COOL! We'll I'm far from a kid now and I still love movies...good movies. That's what this one is...it's a good movie...period. I am one of those who actually liked T3 and can't really understand why some don't. I watched all three other movies again shortly before going to see this one (T3 just hours before).
I was really worried when I heard McG was doing this one. OH Charlie's Angels 2....so I was hesitant to even get excited. I dodged the trailers for a long time and shrugged this one off. At the last minute I decided to have a family outing to go see a movie over the weekend and so I went. I WAS NOT Disappointed. I always longed for more action in the future with the machines when I got glimpses of it in the other 3 and I have to say there were several spots in the movie I went "WOW" out loud.
The action was great and it was a great blend of CGI and real effects. CGI is so overused in some of today's movies; it has its place of course. It was perfect in this one. The director did a fantastic job of creating a bleak war zone that gave impending doom that the other movies set up so well for us and each machine just added to that.
By the way there is a story as well. A very heartfelt and very thought out one if you pay attention. It's not all mindless action, granted there is lots of action to be seen. Your senses are bombarded at times which is what we all want right, but it's the story here that pulls you in, and it's surprisingly not all about John Connor, or is it.? Is it the same as the others, absolutely not is it supposed to be absolutely not. This is not the "lets go back in time to kill John Connor" movies we lovebeen there and done that three times already. It is a great war moviea war between the humans struggling to survive and a seemingly superior adversary who just keeps on finding ways, very intelligent ones, to deceive, survive, and dominate.
You can listen to the naysayers all you want but if you like good movies; you owe it to yourself to give this one a shot. It's a really great movie that pays homage and refers back to its predecessors in a respectable way while all the while improving upon those principles and ideas already in place.