Last left in an underground bunker in Terminator 3, John Connor is now an active member of the resistance in a world overwhelmed with robots. While Connor searched for his would-be father to ensure his existance, Marcus deals with awakening in a this nightmarish world.
The story is pretty loose, but it could have easil been fixed with some kick-ass action. Yet it deals with kick ass action, and is still missing something. It's probably the fact that the focus has turned to a human elements that has already grown cold by the chaos.
It's too bad the acting couldn't have kept up with the themes. Christian Bale turns out a factory performance just like the rest of his stoic roles since Batman. While Helen Bohman Carter and Bryce Dallas Howard capably perform their characters are not nearly given enough to do. Bale is unfortunately surrounded by underwhelming soldier types, specifically Common and Moon Bloodgood. Sam Worthington, the out-of-the-blue Hollywood diamond in the rough but was just ok. Constantly slipping back into his accent was annoying and created a weird accent that was neither Aussie or "non-accent" American. The shining point was Anton Yelchin, who somehow channelled Michael Biehn, yet still young, innocent, and naive. I want to see more Terminator movies just for him.
Terminator fell short of a lot of expectations. The trailers were pretty damn good promising a balance of post-apoc action and the human hope that survives amongst so much rubble, yet it was just another run of the mill action flick.. 5/10
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