PLEASE bring back James Cameron and a Mr. Arnold

Rating: 5/10 (28 May 2009)

Well, for those of you who haven't yet seen the movie, I have some advice. Go without any high expectations and you may just be able to sit through the movie without cursing yourself...
As for the movie itself, this is one major disappointment...It had all the right ingredients..good cast, nice story line(the concept at least)and a chance to redeem the franchise after T3... But sadly, Terminator Salvation fails to capitalize on any of these....
The big flaw with this movie is the lack of a central leading villain...there is no one personal BAD terminator that relentlessly pursues you out there...T1 had Mr. Arnie.. T2 had Robert Patrick playing that superb bad ass T1000 liquid metal terminator..
and even T3 had Krista Loken as the TX
Unfortunately, in Terminator Salvation,all you have is Skynet and droves of nameless,faceless and relatively easily expendable terminators... Thats not what the Terminator Franchise is all about people...
Sure, some of you may say that the storyline doesn't allow for a single stellar terminator and some may even point to Marcus Wright( Portrayed brilliantly by Sam Worthington by the way). But thats not it..Within the same storyline you could have had a starring evil terminator...
Christian Bale is another big flaw...This is quite possibly his worst performance to date...He sleepwalks through the role and there is no conviction at all..not even when he says the iconic "I'll be back"...In fact, he was so completely overshadowed by Sam Worthington that I felt he would have made a much better John Connor.....
To be fair, there are a few scenes in the movie which are genuinely good...but they are few and far between...This is not,I repeat,this is not a worthy successor to the Terminator Franchise...
Casual viewers may like this movie and that may explain to some extent the incomprehensibly high rating this movie has..But for the legions of fans who grew up on the original T1 and T2 that had a certain Mr.Arnie in it, this is one big letdown....
Get back James Cameron and get back Mr. Arnold..If he doesn't want to act, then you have shown us that he can be brought back to the screen with graphics..do it for the whole movie if you have to...
Otherwise, there is no salvation for this franchise and for the droves of hardcore Terminator fans out there....
Go watch this movie if you have nothing much to do over the weekend and if you are not a Terminator fan...Otherwise, its better you stay clear of this one...