So i saw it last night and have been digesting for almost 24 hours now and i must say I am still underwhelmed with the movie. I really REALLY wanted to love this movie. Perhaps i built it up to much for myself. I found much of the dialogue to be incredibly forced. Also i found much of the story and characters extraneous.
I think the Resistance Leaders and “signal” story line were completely unnecessary. I know it was supposed to be a set up for a trap to lure Conner into the Skynet base but the same thing could have been done by taking the prisoners alone. AS much as i love Mikey Ironside his character and the other resistance leaders did nothing. They were the terminator equivalent of a Star Trek Admiral.
I thot most of the cast itself served no purpose. The little girl Star…brought nothing to the story in fact i think she kind of weakened Kyles character.
They tried to give Commons character aback story but it as completely wasted. Conner’s wife also was wasted.
I found it annoying that Skynet set the trap for Connor letting its defense systems get turned off yet it failed to reactivate itself once all the helicopters start flying in and taking everyone away.
I think they used the run into humans who are willing to kill humans one to many times. I understand it helps set the mood for the world but it took away from the story. I like the first one better. Watching the near rape seen was unnecessary. It would have been better if it were a Terminator attack.
That all said there were some things i really did enjoy. I loved the terminators in this. I thot it was so cool to see the giant terminator launch the cycles down its legs. i first thot it was going to transform into a big truck and got really excited. It was also really awesome to watch the big guy ride the transport vehicle like a motorcycle.
The action scenes were actually really cool. They did those really well. And they even managed to break a stupid movie trick of shooting a tanker and making it explode. I also liked all the callbacks to the other movies.
Now some nitpicks that bugged me
Kyle Reese really did nothing the entire movie out side of saving Marcus the first time. He did some support fighting off the motorcycles but he was mostly a damsel in distress the entire movie. Which bothered me when he gets the coat with the blood mark. At that point he didn’t deserve it. I think it would have been much better and more meaningful if he got it in a later movie.
The fact that Skynet was filled with lights. Terminators dont need light. It would work to their advantage if the complex were lightless
The Cycles had handles and shifters (seemingly) now this might also be so another terminator could ride on one of them.
I am starting to get really sick of the having humans being thrown into walls and cars and things and getting back up like nothing happened.
Speaking of getting sick i am done with just out flying explosions. (which in fairness only happened once in this).
And to leaving on a lighter note.
I think it is clearly a really bad idea to let John Conner fly a helicopter. Once he gets behind the stick he ends up crashing it moments later.
so What say you all.
