Christian Bale slips deeper into his male hero, gruff American accent caricature he has been trying to perfect since Batman Begins and in Terminator Salvation, the franchise reboot from McG, he just comes off as a rough draft of his Bruce Wayne. The real standout of the film is Sam Worthington as a death row inmate who signs his body away to corporate villian Skynet only to be revived 15 years later as the newest Terminator. A lot of the strength of this film is mainly due to the Terminator mythology. And like Wall-E and A.I. before it, the most human and identifiable character in the whole film is in reality a machine with human characteristics.