Let me make one thing perfectly clear as I possibly can, this is not an arnold terminator movie, this is not a time traveling robot that everyone has grown love over the past 25 years but this is the future war that everyone has been expecting to see. So everyone in their I love arnold mindset better throw it away, get real you already know he is too old to be doing those terminator parts, so get that little bug out of your heads. The thing with movies is you are not always going to get what you want(if that was the case we'd all be directing and making our own movies)so sometimes you as a fan are going to have to give into the movie instead of the movie always giving in to you. Christian bale as john connor was better than all the other people in the past who played john connor, he played a great leader, he brought us a grittier john connor, he lived up to the john connor we expecting to see judging by all of the flashbacks in the first 3 movies and I truly enjoyed his character. The special effects were off the chart(yes even the CGI arnold was cool)this movie introduced you to old and new terminators or other machines that are trying to kill us in the near future lol. Sam Worthington was fantastic and he picked up where arnold left off as a protector in this movie and did a great job at it. Yes he did lack size compared to arnold's character of the past but his acting was so much better than arnold that it made up for it. The movie did a good job telling and showing the 2 story method just like the 3 before it by showing john's story and then marcus' story, and then you just them come together. That scene when marcus and john first meet was intense and kept you on the edge of your seat because us as the audience knew that marcus wasn't a villain and we were looking at john as if he were crazy but from john's point of view he was paraniod, he had the whole stone cold steve austin "don't trust anybody" mindset. My only complaint was they didn't show enough kyle reese, they could have did more with him you know just give him a couple of more scenes because soemtimes you forget that he's even in the movie. But overall I give that movie a 8 out of 10, my suggestion is for the critics or people who watch this movie is to let go of the first 3 and to get in gear with this new one(out with the old and in with the new).