Being a fan of the Terminator films, I was really looking forward to this movie. The original was amazing. T2 was even better. T3 was lacking a bit, but I expected this one to make up for it. I intentionally shielded myself from previews, trailers, and chatter so that I could get the full experience of this film. What a waste of effort that was. I was expecting a future war with carnage and explosions and much butt-kicking and coolness on both sides. What I got was a string of dead end storylines, incoherent plot devices, underdeveloped or unnecessary characters, and a naked CGI Arnold. So I'm trying to figure out what the main storyline was: Was it John Connor trying to find his teenage father from the future to send back to the past to meet his mom? Was is Marcus the cyborg who thinks he's human trying to show that what makes us human is our hearts because he's basically just a robot with a human heart? Was it that Was it the fact that pregnant veterinarians can perform open heart surgery in the desert when necessary? Or was it that Christian Bale can use the Batman voice in more than one movie? Whatever it was, there was too much going on to keep track of it. What I really don't get is why the machines decided to use Kyle Reese as bait for John Connor. Reese is Connor's father. As soon as they identified him, one bullet would have changed history and made for a war well won for the machines. There would have been no John Connor. The whole movie made no sense, answered no questions and had me asking, "what am I looking at?!" for 2 hours. It stank on ice.