Decent movie disguised in the terminator franchise

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2009)

Let's just put it out there that there are allot of expectations that all fans want when they make another installment to a blockbuster hit like Terminator but considering how awful the third installment was in the franchise I was even more skeptical with this one. Like all good movies, there are so many things that need to be done right to make them good as they are. After that, it's very difficult to reinvent it when so many people may already consider it as perfect, so knowing that, I decided to go ahead and see the Terminator Salvation restraining myself from doing what we all tend do when watching another installment "The comparison".
The story itself wasn't unique at all since they had to set the story based on what the terminator story was about in the first place, the war of "humans versus machines" but the movie itself wasn't that all engaging to begin with. If they took out all the elements that ties it in with the first three movies then I personally believed that I would have lost more of an interest if it wasn't for the special FX and action scenes.
The first half of the movie was pretty descent but as you get deeper into the story you realize that the characters really didn't do a good job complimenting each other in their rolls. Everyone was angry and only had one thing in mind, killing the machines. This is when I realized the reasoning for the wanna-be-human-hybrid machine character. The humans were one dimensional and they needed someone with more personality to make the human race, well, more humane. They even tried to cover that up by putting in the line where John Conner was trying to tell everyone by saying "..we shouldn't be like the machines." Even with this emotional hybrid character, it still wasn't enough for me to get past the silly logic as well as plot holes that was being placed in the story.
One was the question on where did the machines get the information of John Conner's fathers identity?
Second would be, if they knew they had captured him in the first place then wouldn't it be a good idea to kill him thus eliminating the past birth of John Conner?
If the humans were so scared of infiltrating SkyNet then why was it so easy for one man to go in and destroy everything even with the help of one rogue hybrid robot.
If Skynet developed this Hybrid robot and they put that chip on the back of his head to control him then why was it necessary for them to explain everything to him at the end of the movie and give him a chance to live if he was just disposable in the first place?
Not least but why was Common wearing sun glasses in the middle of the night where he's smack in the middle of enemy territory where they can possibly shoot him down from anywhere?
Besides that there are certain parts where you can tell they borrowed ideas from the first 2 movies and who didn't see it coming when John Conner was going to die since his heart was bad and he needed saving?
The only thing I really did like was the FX especially the action scene with the terminator motorcycles but that was about it.
The movie will not rate up to the first 2 and I give it a score of 6 only because I'm "comparing" it to how bad 3 was.