Mediocre, not worth seeing unless you absolutely have to see everything Terminator.

Rating: 5/10 (27 June 2009)

So this one has absolutely NO humor in it at all, and maybe that's what felt "off" to me about it - it's just so thoroughly dark, bleak and plodding throughout, with even the action scenes having this weirdly dank feeling about them. This is a very foreign, detached movie, with characters you barely know due to changes in actors and new ones that you're not given time to be accustomed to, what with the generally pulverizing pace of the film, and I'm not sure that's a good thing, because this film is just so hard to really get into because of it. It never relents and gives you time to care about the characters like the old ones did; you're just supposed to accept who they are and be swept up in the ride. It doesn't even feel like a Terminator film a lot of the time, which is a big point against it - with some alterations, this could just be another random action epic. It seems stunted and incomplete.
I do like the settings though, they were very, very well crafted. This entire film looked GREAT, that is for sure. The action was loud and in your face at all times, sometimes flat-out overwhelming the viewer, but always being really flashy and over the top. They aren't very captivating, though.
Really, though, the ending DID leave me disappointed, being way too cliché and half-cocked for me to really feel inspired by it, especially after seeing the other movies so recently...