It's missing from this film completely - just serious and depressing all the way through. If you know how I feel about Transformers, you'll know that I'm not a fan of mashing together juvenile humor and serious action, but in the previous films they managed to fit in a bit of appropriate humor here and there. If you're not going to say something significant about it, why bother to have her pregnant at all?
Try a "how do we raise a child in a world like this" or something. It's obvious visually but it's not even really addressed or acknowledged in the film. she served as no more than window dressing, and seemed to be in the film for no other reason than to demonstrate the continuity established in Terminator 3. There was also Bryce Dallas Howard as Kate Connor, John's wife. As a matter of fact through the entire film it seems like all we get are brief sentences of dialog from most everyone. However here I think the problem lay in the script - there just wasn't enough there for us to get to know him or connect with him. What about Anton Yelchin as Reese? He did a decent enough job and I was surprised at how I was able to buy him as a teenage Kyle. We never get a clear explanation of his background or the details surrounding how his mystery came to be in respect to the existing Cyberdyne/Skynet technology. He's the character you'll most likely actually end up caring about, but he's also the character that feels shoehorned into the mythos and that doesn't belong in the film at all. There was one other thing that was great but I don't want to give away anything else. I thought Sam Worthington was one of the best things in the film, but even with him there were problems (which I'll get to shortly). In any case they WERE intimidating and it was great to see them functioning in their own element, out in the open. I suppose you could say that Skynet was "practicing" until it got it right with the T-800. It was too big to be mistaken for a person, had rubber skin, and most of the ones we saw didn't even have much of that. and actually in view of that, the Terminator model that made the LEAST sense in the film was the T-600. It made sense to me to have a variety of different robots for different tasks. washed out tones and a true sense of a world in which the joy has been removed.Īnd what about the variety of Terminators? Personally I liked them. Of course there was certainly a good amount of CGI, but overall I found it well done - not like the apparently under-rendered effects in Wolverine. The action scenes are impressive - I especially liked the fact that (as far as I could tell) a fair amount of physical models and props were used in the film.