Okay, I’m feeling old. The original “Terminator” came out twenty-five years ago (of course, I wasn’t even born yet). In this, the year is 2018 and Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear Holocaust. Enter John Connor (Christian Bale) one of the few survivors attempting to stop them/it from further destruction. But many years ago, Dr. Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) used a death row inmate’s body for science and today he’s reborn as a human-heart Cyborg named Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) who is instrumental to Connor. The movie is gritty and heavy metal, probably because of director McG whose history is music videos and the kick-ass “Charlie’s Angels”- the movie. But while it feels like “Mad Max” in style, and has redeemed franchise written all over it, Bale again takes a backseat to Worthington much as he did to Heath Ledger’s Joker in the “Dark Knight.” Worthington is our rugged manly-man star, and we love him. Arnold Schwarzenegger was serious when he said, “I’ll be back” and he does show up for a brief second in a digitally- inserted moment. But the biggest problem with this film by far, is that there aren’t enough special effects. Kidding. The biggest problem is there isn’t enough story. Seriously. And what little there is, is delivered in explosions. Two tiaras
