Two Terminator movies in the same decade? Hopefully they'll get it right this time... Uh-oh, this one is PG-13...

I was so disappointed when I saw T3 I wasn't gonna pay the $10 to see this in theaters, but when this came out on DVD I figured to be fair and give it a chance. So, this one begins shortly before the bombs dropped at the end of that last pice of, I mean movie. Sam Worthington is a death row inmate named Marcus who signs his corpse over to Cyberdyne Systems so they can well... Do SOMETHING with his body, which they didn't really get into.  Next we see the Mad Max like future and John Connor (This time played by Christian Bale) is a grunt in a squad trying to get intel on what SkyNet's doing as well as free human prisoners. Well, that place explodes and leaves Connor wanting answers. In the wake of the destruction, Marcus emerges to find his world turned into a desert of ruins and wasteland.

"Greaaaaaat... I fell asleep at the desk playing Fallout 3 again..."
-Sam Worthington

So he wanders and finds a kid named Kyle Reese. Marcus considers leaving him and his mute friend to their fate but a scout machine finds them and they all get the Hell out of there in what winds up being a pretty badass road chase scene with Motorcycle Terminator things... A failed rescue attempt by military fighter pilots leads Marcus to find a lone pilot that wants to get back to her base and get some food and rest. When they arrive, Marcus trips a magnetic landmine and the humans discover he's an experimental Terminator; a living human with mechanical body parts and a computer chip imterfaced with his brain. With the help of his pilot friend he escapes and leaves for SkyNet to know what he did for him. But Batman, I mean John Connor follows him wanting answers of his own... The only way for them to get answers is to get to SkyNet, work together to save Kyle Reese, and dig up the information on the computers.

"Become Robin and together we can save my da, err...  I mean Kyle Reese and rule the wasteland as masked DC superheroes! It is our destiny..."
-Christian Bale
"I'm the son of Zeus and a cyborg experiment. Call me Robin again and I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass!"
-Sam Worthington

So there's a pretty climatic finish where they save Kyle Reese in a factory where SkyNet is developing the T-800 series and although Arnold's not really in the movie, they used CG and stock footage which made him look like he's beating the snot outta the Batman. In just a few minutes, they burn his skin off, battle the iconic Terminator skeleton, and wreck the SkyNet base. Without giving away the ending, they leave Marcus with a choice of being humane or being the cold hearted bastard that he believes he is.

All in all, this movie was pretty good for a Terminator film and is pretty much what T3 should've been. This one also blends the last previous films together and somehow made it all fit. Even the bitchy redhead John hooked up with is in this movie though her role's really been downsized... She still tries to throw her attitude around and acts like being married to John Connor makes her special but he's the one battling the T-800 and saving the people... Not her. Anyways, I have to say this film is as good as the first 2 and well deserves 4 out of 5 conflicted experimental cyborgs. Really wish they continued this movie instead of making Terminator: Genisys but it's too late, what're we gonna do?

"Well you see... We, we should work with the Battyman and reprogram an Arnold The Barbarian and uh, well send him back in time and ha ha.... Terminate! The director. Because uh, Genisys? ... It's a bad joke... I would know! Ha ha!"
-The Joker