Terminator: Game Over

Rating: 3/10 (16 March 2014)

Presuming you've seen the previous instalments in this sci-fi franchise, I'll kick straight in with the review of the official 4th episode.
It's dreadful. I could leave the review there, but I'll elaborate slightly. Should you have seen any of the previous films, this one takes place primarily in the future, post-judgement day.
However, rather than reference James Cameron's previous efforts, or the dour note of what a post-apocalyptic USA would be, the director chooses a light/bright (somewhat blunt) reflection of the current Afghan landscape and attempts to juxtapose this with the manufacturing plant of the terminators.
All this proves is a complete lack of respect/knowledge of the original -vision of James Cameron - namely a blue-lit, oppressive, violent and futuristic society (they fired lasers after all). All we are presented here with are barren sand lands and occasional bursts of gunshots from the resistance and the terminators; completely contradicting the previous films.
Additionally, the movie tries to introduce a new terminator. Spoilers withstanding, this does not only contradict previous films, but also questions why Skynet produced inferior terminators.
Finally, the entire continuity is destroyed by Skynet knowing who John's father is at the time this takes place. Think about it, if Skynet knew who John Connor's father is, then surely it would have made more sense to kill HIS father/mother rather than John Connor's following the introduction of time travel to the saga.
The more I think about it, the less I like the Terminator saga - give me T1 and T2 only, and I'll be a happy bunny.