Great summer movie

Rating: 9/10 (24 September 2009)

i saw this movie twice this past summer and both time i really enjoyed it. recently a friend asked me about it and said that he didn't see it because he doesn't like Christian bale, i told him the movie was good and that the main character is not really bale but the terminator. i do like bale as an actor but trailers sold this movie on him being the main focus when in the opening credits you become aware of the fact that he is not. my theory on movies is that within the first 10 minutes of a movie you see the main character and generally the first trailers released show more truth about a movie than later one. when this movie released its trailers it was bales voice over but hardly any scenes with him in it (by the way a scene with a terminator coming out of the water behind bale underground was never in the movie but it was in multiple trailers, disappointing) my favorite part of the movie is the fight between bale/Connor and the t-800/animated Arnold. when this scene starts you hear the music start up and the t-800 walk out of smoke showing a young Arnold face, awesome. this movie does seem to have parts not needed like hostel human groups in two different scenes and a drawn out scenes that could have been shorter. one thing that i was hoping to see was a fulls scale battle between the humans and machines, but who knows they have two more movies to make in this trilogy. besides those few things i really enjoyed the movie and recommend this movie to watch in theaters if you still can and as a buy when it comes out on DVD/bluray.