Salvation of a franchise?

Rating: 6/10 (13 June 2020)

I feel that this movie gets slated more than it should. It is a very flawed movie, but not terrible. Much better than T3 and the atrocious Genysis.
Firstly, Bale seems to get a lot of stick, yet I think he's more believable as an older version of Furlong's Connor than Stahl was.
I like the darker tone in this one, as opposed to the lame jokes thrown into T3 for the sake of it.
The scenes with the T-800 are a joy to watch, as well.
However, like many movies these days, this is full of plot holes and conflicting plot lines, and I think the character of Marcus is absolutely pointless, and like another reviewer stated, it capped all over what James Cameron did. According to the movie, Marcus died in 2003, so I'm assuming he was made part machine while is corpse was still "fresh". He's a far superior model of the T-800 which was built later in the timeline, it makes so sense. Even removing his character, the same story could have been told. Same goes for Dr Kogan. No explanation to the character but suddenly she's the face of Skynet? Why her? All we know is that she's a doctor and cancer victim, but she becomes the mother of the Terminators.
All in all, a decent action movie, which could have been better with a bit more thought given to the characters and the plot.