Ebert is a populist. He's one the last critics you can call an elitist.

So whats your personal  ratings over 10? 

I did say some movies not all movies. But Its good that you brought up Dark Knight because when you think of how well the Batman has reinvented itself, i cant help but feel it was a miss opportunity for the T series to do the same. As previous posters mentioned, the casting are bland, dialogs are forgetful and the story is kinda meh. Sure the CGI is great but thats pretty much all it has going for it. Take that away and you left with nothing. 

Nothing to do with accepting illogical ideas, all sci fi and fantasy based films are imaginative fictions. Its how those ideas are presented and fit into the film that matters to most adult audience. I ldo ike some of the T4 scenes and concepts, but their executions and sequence are just cheesy and even downright cheap. Thats what puts me off. It doesnt have to sophisticated like Dark Knight, it just has to be polished and well thought out.

when u expect too much from too little, and capturing every plotholes existed, while comapring to past directors, and poor execution of the flim.

you will have much, much, much to critic.

unless u hv a mentality of a child

Is there an action scene that is not jarring and messy?

hohoho
i hope you won't be watching T5 if it ever come out in the future then.

It's becoz that there are terminators that existed from the past becoz it came from the future.
So, future terminator will help to give info to the past skynet.
Simple as that..

same here. i pay my respect to the terminator franchise by watching T4, not T3. t3's full of jokes and humor and should not be seen in near times cause it made the terminator looked lame and dumb. T4? phew, one of the most dead serious film in 09' i can tell. although it utilize a bad edit and does not have characteristic background, but i still loved it and definitely will watch it for the 3rd time.

what's the most important thing? a good replacement for T3. that's all. majority of t-fans were pissed because of that hillarious film. it made arnold looked dumb, it made the tx look beauty and dumb at the same time.

worst? nothing is worst than the disastrous T3 lar...
the lame female T-X, and the lame JC which looks like a junkie, and the lame list goes on
watching T3 once in the cinema is enough for me, and I'll never watch it again in any format