Big on spectacle and drama, some plot holes

Rating: 8/10 (4 June 2009)

One early scene was very much like a scene from 'Transformers' (2007), when the humans were experimenting on a 'hydrobot' (swimming, snake-like terminator) on a table. When Connor blew up the Skynet central building towards the end with a small nuclear explosion, the helicopter in which he was escaping didn't suffer total electrical failure after the electro-magnetic pulse of the blast. That chopper should have crashed. The writers of 'True Lies' and 'The Matrix' knew about the e.m. pulse effect years ago. The Skynet army seemed to behave in an arbitrary way. Some humans were killed quickly while others were captured with great effort and skill. How did the machines make their choices? This film felt like it was cobbled together and liberally sprinkled with 'previous good bits' (Arnie, mini-guns, legless terminators, chases, etc.).