Here’s why I disliked the movie:
1) some serious plot holes
2) crappy script
3) no reason to care about any characters including John Connor even though we’ve invested more in him than Heidi did on her boobs
4) Michael Ironside in a submarine
I think they just told the wrong story. I thought this was going to be a dark, gritty post apocalyptic struggle where we see what happens after Judgement Day. Where we see John Connor leading the resistance against Skynet. I wanted it to be about his relationship with Kyle Reese and what led up to sending him back in time to protect his mum and knock her up in the first place.
Instead they told some lame story about the first terminator with flesh who doesn’t even know he’s a terminator and Connor’s attempt to locate Reese as a 17 year old kid.
But I imagine it’s because they are setting us up for yet another mediocre movie.
It’s directed by McG, which explains everything. Having just watched Charlie’s Angels on TV the other night it confirmed for me that he’s a heavy handed action director who sacrifices character development, relationships and subtle story telling for unnecessarily long and repetitive action scenes….some of which are stolen from other movies including the first two Terminators (which for the record I love).
To be fair the script itself was terrible in the first place with some pretty big holes and inconsistencies….did they even watch the other movies? Do they realize that performing open-heart surgery in the desert is an unwise and unsafe choice? Is it really that sunny after a nuclear war?
However kudos to Sam Worthington and yes even Christian Bale for trying to take the movie seriously. Although Bale traded in his signature Batman “Where is He!!!!!!!?” yell for “What are you????!!!!” I also spent most of the movie wondering what scene Bale was filming when the infamous meltdown happened.
But what do I expect from a movie that makes Michael Ironside the leader of the resistance, puts him in a submarine with a bunch of Russians and then not expect me to laugh out loud?
