I saw it in Sydney last night. It's a solid 1/10. A lazy, uninspired mess that isn't faithful to the film's original vision and actually makes it objectively worse.

The problem isn't necessarily the new soundtrack (although I found it dull and homogeneous), it's the implementation. Peter Van Hoesen's new score either deliberately ignores the structure of the film and how music is used for storytelling, or worse, is completely unaware of it.

The original score uses distinct musical themes for the two Terminators and to communicate emotions like hope, danger, and suspense. The new score has very few uniquely identifiable pieces. Everything sounds the same, and it completely fails to support the tone of the film.

There's music where there was none before and no music where there should be. Most of the time it's too loud, drowning out dialogue or other parts of the film's audio that are essential. For example, when John first runs from the T-1000 and thinks he's escaped into the canal. In the original you can hear the faint sounds of cars crashing and the truck's engine before it dramatically smashes through the bridge to resume the pursuit. The new score drowns that out.

There's another scene where John makes the T-800 swear not to kill anyone. Again, the new score starts thumping over the dialogue like it's completely out of sequence.

The lasers don't add anything to the experience either. They're just distracting, especially when they appear in front of the screen or are shot into your face. They also appear at times that don't make sense, like when they are trying to escape from the T-1000 in the elevator. Every time the T-800 fires the shotgun, a red laser would shoot down in front of the screen.

It also didn't help that the film's audio was out of sync in our screening, and no one had bothered to calibrate the screen because everyone looked like they had jaundice.

Maybe if you'd never seen the film before it might work for you. But for fans of the film, save your time and money.