Judgement Day has happened and the remnants of humanity are at war with the machines. The leadership find a signal that switches the machines off, and John Connor (Christian Bale) sets out to test it. But the machines have something new up their metal arms…
As a slightly cheesy sci fi romp about humans and robots, this does fine. As a Terminator movie it fails pretty badly.
This is the film we’ve been waiting for for 25 years, ever since the Stan Winston effects had Terminators busting in to scrappy bunkers and rolling over piles of human skulls. Looking at the admittedly messed up time line this is actually set 11 years before that, but its still a bit disappointing.
How are the humans able to have such blatantly open bases without being molested? Where were the big tank machines? (I think you do see one, but you see more motor bikes) Why if its 11 years earlier are the T-800 already in the works? And why the fuck doesn’t this film focus on John Connor?!
In fact his role is actually expanded from what it was, but the film still largely focuses on Sam Worthington’s Marcus character. For no damned logical reason. And its why I say this works okay as a sci fi film but not as a Terminator one. While Connor is in this, he’s not even close to being the focus. He’s the B or possibly even C story in a franchise BUILT on that surname.
I’ve seen everything Terminator bar the tie in anime. The first two films are brilliant, the third is largely a pile of arse, and the TV show was damned good except for the story lines that focused primarily on Sarah Connor ironically enough. In fact it had my favourite scene of, I think, 2007. This one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc6M4WBL6hA&feature=related It’s fucking GORGEOUS, and that’s a bad ass Johnny Cash tune.
But I digress. Badly as that TV show follows a separate time line and doesn’t match what passes for movie continuity.
I wish they hadn’t skipped the first 9 or 10 years of the war against the machines. I wish we’d seen scrappy bands on humans fighting against terrible odds to try and destroy Skynet. What we got was a combination between Transformers and the Matrix sequels. There’s still potential but I can’t see there being any films for a while due to the rights being all over the place/no where. Probably best to just watch the first movie on a loop and revel in its awesomeness. Not that this doesn’t have the odd moment
It just didn’t fill the gaps in between with the right other moments….
Next up: Paul Blart: Mall Cop
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