Terminator.
back on topic, I just watched it.
I liked it. a local paper ripped it apart, but, hey, they hate everything.
the CGI set design for the background was excellent, there was a helicopter scene where they did a continuous shot of Bale at the controls, hit, damages, spinning, and crashing upside-down that was done extremely well.
And bringing back the AH-Nold Terminator was awesome!
One note to pick at, I don't know why John Connor doesn't have radiation sickness because he was near enough to TWO nuclear blasts to blow his skin off.
There were Lots of nods to things in the movie, the Guns & Roses track was to the G&R used in the first movie, the Human cattle scene reminded me tons of Pink Floyd: the Wall, and lots of references to classic Terminator movements that were emulated perfectly.
One surprise that I liked, the theme was composed by Danny Elfman, and orchestrated by Steve Bartek, a co-conspiritor of Elfman from Oingo Boingo. That was nice.