I didn’t mind the third Terminator film and felt that it was closer in tone to the original two that this one (even if this one is a better film). I doubt we’ll ever get a Terminator film as good as the original two but I hope that the planned 5th and 6th films are a little more involving.

I couldn’t agree with you more on this review. It is hard to believe that Christian Bale is getting such a huge draw as he is b/c he has not really seemed to branch out from the singular acting mode that he has donned since The Machinist, in addition, he is actually ‘out-emoted’ in the film by the actor playing Marcus Wright, who is supposed to be part machine and, by extension, partly emotionless. Also, the chronology from the original films does not appear to sync as Reese, whom we were led to believe was far older in the original film, appears to young and has to much to age to allow him to be the ‘correct age’ in the original film. The story was actually well constructed, I felt, but it felt like a prologue of a more major film and seemed to drag b/c the viewer never was on edge for any length of time as all the major plot lines were foretold in the story itself so there was never any element of unpredictability, which was crucial to the success of the first 2 films (we should pretend the 3rd film never existed, although I feel the 2 main actors in that film would have done far better as John Connor and his spouse than Bale and Howard.