Mary-Sue fan fiction, at its worst.

Rating: 4/10 (25 May 2009)

Marcus is the Mary Sue of the authors/director in this one, showing up the established characters, being visually likened to Jesus (crucifix poses aplenty), dying to tear-filled eyes to save John Connor (well, it's better than if he'd replaced him, as was the original ending :P )...
Incompetently done, and un-engaging.
Commits primal sin of action movies: it's boring to watch.
Commits primal sin of sequels: screws up the previous films. John Connor isn't the leader of the resistance, Kyle Reese didn't work in camps loading bodies for the machines, and Skynet isn't so much threatening as idiotically incompetent. Also, screws up direct quotes from it's preceding chapters: Sarah Connor's taped speech was obviously meant to be the one she was taping at the end of T1, but the lines in T4 were not the same lines that were on screen in T1.
Blech. Give it a miss.