Such a waste of potential.

Rating: 3/10 (3 December 2009)

It could have portrayed the dark, stylised future war only briefly glimpsed in the first two movies... but it didn't.
It could have been a brilliant character study of how John Connor achieves his near-mythical hero status... but it wasn't.
It could have pitted humans against an enemy so fearful and unstoppable that the audience might have been driven to anxiety... but they weren't.
It could have been a poignant prequel about a son sending his father to his own death for the greater good... but it wasn't.
Coulda shoulda woulda.
Instead you've got transformers and every other Michael Bay dreck ever pumped out, a little GI Joe in the mix, a script that is barely more involving than the average SyFy channel B movie, and a bunch of actors who look like they know the work they're involved in should be better but have given up hope.
I know I shouldn't have expected anything else, after all - the director is the guy who brought us Charlie's Angels and the writers are the guys who brought us Catwoman. But what can I say, I tried to give it a chance.
I hate to say it... but I think even if Michael Bay himself had gotten his hands on this it might have been better. McG is possibly the worst thing to happen to movies since Uwe Boll. A crying shame.