Worth every penny...of the bargain matinée ticket price

Rating: 6/10 (22 May 2009)

Great SFX, CG, action sequences. But, like a party where you drink too much, less would have been more. On the other hand, there were plenty of opportunities left unmined. Character development is crushed under the titanium heels of rather uninteresting antagonists. The rather perfunctory screen crawl explaining the events of the previous 15 years is truly craptastic. Imagine Deliverance opening with the information that four guys' canoe trip ended in disaster and now they have to figure out how to explain what happened to the cops. I can't help believing a better movie would have been the uprising of the machines and Judgement Day. I suppose we'll have to wait for the prequel to the prequel. But, please, no more McG. Joel Schumacher, anyone?