When the opening credits started rolling and I saw that the director's name was McG, my heart and my expectations sank. McG started in music videos for the likes of the Offspring, Sublime and Korn and went on to make some movies that I have never heard of as well as that Charlie's Angels sequel.

While there are essentially no terminators in the opening sequence, it will still blow you away. As will the rest of the film. I have not gripped my armrest in excitement for a long time, but this film is visually astounding and expertly acted. Sam Worthington, as Marcus Wright, is someone I will watch very closely from this point onward. See this movie. It will absolutely not disappoint. The only drawbacks I can think of are that the story of mixing man and machine and the consequences that come of such an action has been done to death. As well as time travel. But the time travel can be excused because of the franchise's history.

I was so impressed with this film that I went to rottentomatoes.com to make sure all those high priced and published critics were in league with me. They are most definitely not. Get this; piece of shit Wolverine is at an approval rating of 37%. Pretty awesome, but essentially just really glitzy Star Trek is at a whopping 95%. And Terminator, a film that we have already concluded is bad-ass in all resepects, is lower than Wolverine at 34%!

Critics are fools. Many of them have to reach a certain word count and just blather on and on. Others are probably inbred. And many others are also probably getting paid by the studios to write whatever they write. I'm just going to write out all the taglines from each reviewer on rottentomatoes and I think my reasoning should be pretty clear by the end.

Andrea Chase: Killer Movie Reviews - Even the terminators seems bored (1/5).
- Check your grammar before you go posting. And this makes even less sense because the special effects are mind-blowingly pristine in this film. 10^10 x better than Wolverine's (which she gave a 4/5).

Maitland McDonagh: Miss Flick Chick - The trouble with Terminator: Salvation ... [is that] there's a yawning void where its emotional center should be. Dear Miss Flick Chick, if that is how you feel about a post-apocalyptic battle for survival, maybe you should just stick to the chick flicks. If she couldn't see the emotion and fear within each primary character, then she didn't want to from the beginning.

Mike Ward: Richmond.com -The problem with the Terminator franchise is that it's beginning to feel more and more like a cold, calculating Machine. Somewhere, it lost its humanity and became Dick Cheney's daydream.
- I like politics in my review just as much as the next guy. The next guy hates them. I never saw the third terminator, but if I'm to compare from the trailers; Salvation is a huge step up.

Gary Wolcott: Tri-City Herald - Didn't George Lucas' Star Wars prequels prove that not all complex sci-fi plots need to be completed?
- Gary Wolcott is the one person in the world who doesn't want more Star Wars films. That is reason enough not to trust him.

Praire Miller: News Blaze - Endless rounds of boisterous battle scenes and eardrum annihilating explosions, until you could care less which side wins. So if there's any real human passion rising to the surface amid the rubble, it's all about the guns, baby.
- I see endless battle scenes in an action film as an endless positive. Thank you for mentioning the films earth shattering pyro-technics. And if you didn't catch it, Praire Miller was watching this film and not wanting the humans to win. Traitor.

Sean Means: Salt Lake Tribune - [The movie] is a lot like the human-killing machines it depicts: ruthlessly efficient, action-oriented, thunderously brutal and loaded with high-tech firepower. It's also just as cold and emotionless.
- As far as efficiency goes, movies need that. McG is constantly attentive of how the sound, space and time of the film will affect his audience.

Michelle Alexandria: Eclipse Magazine - McG is capable of making the trains run on time, but not much else. He has no vision, discernible style, wit or knows how to get much out of his actors.
- Sam Worthington.

Tyler Hanley: Palo Alto Weekly - Director McG fuels Terminator Salvation with exceptional visual effects and sharp sound, but more shouting and explosions than a Super Bowl in Beirut.
- What does that even mean?

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone - T4 is a mixed bag, but it's not fucking amateur.
- I actually broke down my wall of loathing for Rolling Stone in order to go to their site and read this review, just so I could find out why Peter Travers would say something this strange (in a positive review). After slogging my way through the most tepidly boring short review ever, I found that that line above is simply his closing sentence. No rhyme or reason. One more reason to hate Rolling Stone. They must have a quota of swear words to meet, so they just throw them out there. How fucking hip.

Steven Rea: Philadelphia Inquirer - Message to Hollywood: Stop with the time-travel stuff.
- Really, Steven? I couldn't agree with you more in principal, but have you seen a Terminator film before?

Brandon Judell: Culture Catch - T-4 might be mistaken by some as a Transformers sequel.
- Those peoploe would be small children, out of touch people living in asian mountain towns or dumbass critics.

Kevin Carr: 7M Pictures - the whole ordeal made me fantasize about building a time machine so I could send a cyborg into the past to terminate McG's mother before she could give birth to him
- Whoa... Geez, Kevin. Who needs a big hug?

Fred Topel: Can Magazine - Everyone wanted to see the future, but I knew that would just be big robot fights. Cool maybe, but that's a war movie, not a character investment suspenseful action movie. So here, this is what you wanted. Happy now?
- Fred just wanted to be the big dog, but I knew he would always be a dick. Cool in his head maybe, but that's a critic. Not a real person with witty and interesting criticism, just a big giant douche. So there you are Fred, top critic at Can Magazine. Happy now?

Greg Maki: Star Democrat (Eastern MD) - .. A lot of stuff blows up without any style or visual flair.
- We clearly did not watch the same movie. He also heralded Wolverine as "a whole lot of fun."

I'm done.