Pretty Much Ordinary, But You'll Still Watch It. --- Mr. Sensitive

Rating: 6/10 (15 June 2009)

Finally – we got to see “The Future” of the terminator franchise and to tell you frankly – I think the flashback from the T1 and T2 tell you a whole lot more than this movie. Though this ain’t that bad of movie but seriously, the story and the plots are just plain and lifeless.
For me this would have been just another man versus cyborg flick if it weren’t for the Terminator name. There isn’t much of anything really that make this movie to think about, but more of the question that came after having seen it. The story ain’t that confusing but there is a whole lot more explanation to do in the next film because this film didn’t quite make much sense. Don’t seem like a vital point of the “future” to be told but letting us know that John rescue his father.
The tone of the film change quite a lot from the original since almost every scene is shot in the broad day light and in the desert, taking away a lot of darkness of the movie in my account. Remind me of Resident Evil: Apocalypse. But at least they explain why every battle has to fight in daylight.
Anyway I thought the movie started out pretty alright, I like the part when John fought with T-600, and the score when well with the timing, but after that it felt so ordinary. As for the casting, I thought many of them didn’t quite do the job, C. Bale was not much of a John Conner, Sam was OK – but not so convincing Terminator, Bryce didn’t do anything at all, I think only Anton is only the only one to look out for. Also it was accompany by the weird and wooden dialogue and awkward situation. But apart from that McG did quite alright with his direction skill.
Beside from complains (mostly on how the story developed – I don’t really care how much error it made) the movie is more or less fun to watch. There are load of action sequence – involve almost everything man vs. man, man vs. Terminator, Terminator vs. Terminator and so on.
Oh and almost forget – the CGI is actually pretty good over here, Arnold face tracing technology is pretty darn convincing (though for few moment), but I’m impress.
Overall it would be pretty alright if you watch the movie for what it is, but if you’re a hardcore fan of the franchise (then you would have known that it was over with T2 – J. Cameron said it himself) you would be more on the disappointed side.
Season To Watch: It is “The Future”, we always wanted to see what the future is like!!!
Reason Not To: Judgment day don’t really existed, it was save in T2.
Rating: 6/10 (Grade: C+)