Terminator Salvation is the 4th film in the Terminator franchise and takes place in 2018, where humanity is battling Skynet. As narrated early in the film, the Resistance leaders are growing desperate.
Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) is a death-row inmate in 2003 who has signed a consent form to donate his body to science after his execution. He will later resurface in 2018 alive and believes himself still to be human.
Christian Bale is Resistance leader John Connor. who led the Resistance attack against a Skynet base and discovered human prisoners, including the then-unconscious and chained-up Marcus Wright. He also found out about plans for a new hybrid protoype for the Terminator that infused human tissue with technology that makes the Terminator what it is.
When Marcus Wright found John Connor's father, it took me awhile to finally realise who Kyle Reese was even though his name had rung a bell, they moved on with a child to meet John Connor.
Along the way, Kyle Reese and the child was taken away by Skynet and Marcus Wright, having grown attached to the young man, wanted to rescue them. He later rescued a female pilot of the Resistance who led him to John Connor. At the Resistance's base, John Connor and co. discovered who Marcus Wright really is, his role setting the tone for the rest of the film.
Terminator Salvation is an all-action movie from start till finish. While Bale (his portrayal as Batman, in the revived and revised franchise, is heavily laudable) was roped in to provide fresh impetus as the star character John Connor, it is Sam Worthington who steal the show as a man caught in past and present. It was his humanity, addressed on a minor, but signifcant, scale, that underlined the movie's recurring theme of human versus machine.
Questions will be asked of where the Terminator franchise will next take its course but audience will probably be disappointed that Marcus Wright.....
Terminator Salvation carried enough punch to make this a good blockbuster film. While not really matching the intensity and the tension of the first two films, which will forever be hard to match, this latest instalment is a neat stepping stone to close down some loose ends from the previous movies while simultaneously giving enough space for the storyline to be expanded further.
Rated 3 out of 5.
akim
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