a great attempt at capturing the 'war of the machines'

Rating: 8/10 (5 June 2009)

As a huge terminator fan I walked into the cinema knowing that this movie would be nowhere near as good as the first 2. However I was surprised as to how good this movie turned out, and here's why:
The acting in this movie was very well done, especially by Sam Worthington (Marcus) and Anton Welchin (Kyle) and I was willing them to destroy skynet throughout most of the movie.
McG also deliberately included probably 20 similarities between the other terminator movies (and I am not just referring to Christian bale's "i'll be back"!). This was a good move for McG but only people who have watched the other movies more than once would pick up on all of these similarities.
There was a lot of rant and hype as to whether McG could actually deliver the amazing special effects that Cameron and Winston produced in Terminator 2. Honestly its nothing amazing however he still deserves a pat on the back for capturing the dark atmosphere and messiness of the war of the machines which Cameron gave us a glimpse of.
I gave this movie an 8 because the chase scenes (perhaps 2 or 3) was nothing spectacular and didn't have the same intensity as the first 2 terminators. Terminator 2 is widely considered to have some of the best action scenes in movie history and most of these include chase scenes, or maybe I just miss Arnie..
Overall its a very good action movie and is definitely worth watching in cinema but just don't expect it to be as good as Terminator 1 and 2!