So close yet so far.

Rating: 4/10 (28 June 2009)

At the start there is a scene where a Terminator goes after our Mr Connor and it is truly frightening, you can imagine these unstoppable, uncaring machines coming after you that cannot be reasoned with or deterred. This is going to be great...
No it isn't.
It is cool watching Terminators fight but make a human the main character and it is just stupid. Scores of super hard killing machines unload millions of rounds with there gattling cannons and manage to hit everything but their target. At one point -through stifled yawns- as lucky Jonny C miraculously ran another gauntlet of flying lead I expected his belt buckle to get shot off, or perhaps a cigarette out of his mouth. But then the humans don't seem to do much better either when they aren't shooting a bots.
There is also a puke inducing scene like the one in Independence day where iron-man Jonny C takes the mic and reaches out to the resistance (who tend to be considerably less bullet-proof than he is) and spurs them to continue fighting.
GOOD 1 Some of the robots are cool. 2 The sound is very good. 3 The stunts are cool 4 The film does propel the franchise forward
1 continuity from the previous films isn't there (anyone remember? 'the early ones had rubber skin and were easy to spot' the writers didn't) 2 The plot is poor 3 The terminators are too lame (at one point Jonn all but kicks one to death) 4 The characters are weak (I can't even remember which ones made it, and I don't care)
Everything else is pretty mediocre. Wait and get a cheap second hand copy in 6 months times. You are missing nothing.