Are you sure this is Terminator?

Rating: 5/10 (6 June 2009)

My brother and I are huge Terminator fans. When I saw the trailer for this, I thought I have got to see it.My brother and I just went to the movies to see it last night. To be honest I was quite disappointed.
It begins with bucket loads of action with no explanation of what's going on. This is rated 12A in the movies. I really don't think a young child is going understand the story of The Terminator franchise if they haven't seen the first 2 movies, which were awesome. The 3rd wasn't so good. Terminator is really aimed at the older audience.
I was impressed with the opening titles, I thought they were very good.
Christian Bale I thought did well as John Connor but the rest of the cast was average. The special effects a lot of the times went way over the top, I was thinking OK calm down with the effects.
The story wasn't brilliant. With Marcus Wright, it is completely obvious that he is a machine because he signed a contract that has the word SKYNET on it. I can't believe that was a twist
The direction and filming was good, but I wish Cameran did it again. I think this one was more aimed at kids not actual Terminator fans.
There were a few goods bits which were good, but they don't really last long. There were quite a lot of ridiculous stunts they you can not survive through, for example Connor is on a helicopter on top of choppy, stormy seas possibly one hundred feet up. He dives off in the sea to get to a sub which is underwater and then cuts to when he's in the sub. Seriously, why did they do that?
Overall it was OK, but not really Terminator. It was more like an action that doesn't use any brain cells with the word Terminator in it. Termintor is an action film with an awesome story and uses a lot of brain cells.
You can go and see by all means. But I would rather wait till the DVD is out to rent. I think a lot of Terminator fans would be more outraged than I was.