Actor script switch.

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2009)

This movie appears to have had a lead and script switch mid shoot. Rare but it does happen. Sam Worthington appears to be the original lead with Bale thrown in last second. This may not be the case but has that feel. So they had to adjust the script to that decision.
I think the John Conners role was going to be a character but not the lead in the movie. He may have even been dead already. Kyle Reese and Marcus Wright were to be the staring pair. And Moon Bloodgood was going to be the female lead and Marcus's romantic as she is in this script version.
My guess is the producers got cold feet and stuck their big noses into the script and actors list and ruined the movie. They probably said, uh oh, we don't have a big name actor.
Personally I think the director purposely ruined the movie because the powers that be ruined the script.
Bale, was terrible and certainly appeared to be out of place. Please, who made him do the Batman voice again. It was bearable in Batman but stupid in this movie.
The director had a great script which would have started the series all over again with Worthington as the half human half terminator. Did you see the scene where they are getting into the jeep and Worthington says to the kid " Don't look at me like that Star." It was out of place. Worthington was supposed to have a relationship with the kid. But since the script was destroyed we didn't see any character development to justify that comment.
By the way, Worthington is as good an actor as Bale, maybe better.
Bale was terrible from the start. Out of place and uninspired. Again, I am guessing here, but it appears Bale took the role for the money. He had some free time between gigs and was given this part.
I could see Bale on set, going around to the actors apologizing for stepping all over their movie.
Anyway, what we get as movie goers is a mish mash of scenes that the director tried to give in somewhat of a thoughtful way but without any heart as the true movie had been ruined by untalented, distrusting old men with money. imho
I can see the director sitting in his directors chair and getting a message from upstairs that says " More CGI and more Bale"
This isn't all that's wrong with this movie but the bulk of what is. Whats with the terminator leeches. Could someone please explain this to me? Oh and what's with the new terminators that look like the robot from an Iron Maiden concert. At one point it looked like one of them was smoking a cigar.
Everything you think is pretty good in this movie is the original script. Anything that seems stupid or out of place, you can call the Bale script.