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Terminator Salvation is a 2009 American military science fiction action film that is the fourth installment of the Terminator franchise, serving as a sequel to Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), but also as a soft reboot.
In 2018, John Connor (Christian Bale) leads a Resistance attack on a Skynet base. John discovers human prisoners and schematics for a new type of Terminator incorporating living tissue, but he is the only apparent survivor of the attack after the base is destroyed in a nuclear explosion.
- Isn't: It Breaks Free of Time Travel
- Isn't: Kinetic Action Sequences
- Is: A Needless Romance Subplot
- Isn't: A Great Cast
- Isn't: It Does John Connor Justice
- Isn't: It Makes Terminators Scary Again
- Is: The Plot Doesn't Really Make Sense
- Isn't: A Low-Tech Vision of The Apocalypse
- Is: Underdeveloped Characters
- Isn't: The Potential For A Bigger Story
Terminator Salvation was the first Terminator movie to break free of the time travel aspect of the franchise and, considering how much of a burden it's been on the following movies alone, it's proven to be a wise decision. Allowing John Connor to finally be the main character out from under the shadow of Sarah Connor and the T-800 also allows Salva...
Embracing the legacy left by Terminator 2, Salvation focuses on its action sequences above everything else and it's not a wrongheaded approach to the material. RELATED: 10 Most Impressive Action Sequences From The Terminator Franchise, Ranked Not only does the action sequences propel the plot forward and develop the characters' relationships, they ...
Though a large chunk of it was cut from the theatrical version of the movie, there's still too much of a needless romantic thread between Sam Worthington's and Moon Bloodgood's characters. Their emotional connection mostly feels like a device to facilitate parts of the plot and ultimately amounts to nothing in terms of drama.
Perhaps it was always too good to be repeatable but Terminator Salvation assembled an eclectically talented cast for its key roles. RELATED: Terminator: 5 Reasons The Franchise Deserves Another Shot (& 5 Reasons It Should End) The proximity of Christian Bale and Sam Worthington to The Dark Knight and Avatar made them seem like two of the only actor...
Taking into account, once again, the following movies in the franchise and how they would both metaphorically and literally butcher this aspect, the characterization of John Connor is the best a Terminator fan could hope for. The legendary resistance leader is not only fearless, heroic, and decisive but he's tested in ways that the franchise has ne...
Though not as horror driven as the original movie, Salvation does more than perhaps any Terminator sequel to make the titular killing machines seem genuinely imposing and scary. RELATED: 5 Reasons Why Terminator Genisys Isn’t As Bad As People Say It Is (& 5 Reasons It Is) Since the T-800 essentially became the heroes of the series after Terminator ...
The breathless pace to the action is beneficial also in making the audience less likely to pause and notice that the big holes in the movie's plot. Though there may be answers to certain puzzling questions that are just never explained, Skynet's apparent awareness of Kyle Reese's importance makes his survival seem all the more improbable but the pl...
Terminator Salvation was the first movie in the franchise to really expand the vision of the post-apocalypticworld in a meaningful way and it makes the world after Judgement Day its own. RELATED: 10 Great Terminator Sequels (Other Than The TV Show And Movies) Eschewing the plasma weapons seen in earlier movies and forgoing the liquid-metal-inspired...
A number of the main characters benefit from the fast-paced nature of events as they work better while being mysterious or because they're well-established by previous movies. Others, however, feel saddled with one or two defining characteristics that never evolve into anything meaningful during the course of the story and it makes a large chunk of...
As the heroes quite literally ride into the sunset at the movie's close, John Connor delivers the obligatory closing narration and does something that none of the other Terminator movies ever did and contextualizes the fight against Skynet as being global. Like every other movie in the franchise, Salvation takes place in Southern California and nea...
- Mark Birrell
Terminator Salvation: Directed by McG. With Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood, Helena Bonham Carter. As the machines prepare for a final attack, John Connor and a mysterious stranger delve into the heart of Skynet and uncover a terrible secret involving the annihilation of mankind.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- McG
- 2009-05-21
Synopsis. In 2003, a death row inmate named Marcus Wright at the Longview Correctional Facility in Texas meets with representative Dr. Serena Kogan from Cyberdyne Systems Genetics Division to donate his organs and tissue for what she believes will be a noble cause (the future of humanity).
In 2018, 14 years since Judgment Day (July 25th, 2004) started the world war between humans and Skynet machines, Resistance leader John Connor (Christian Bale) is searching for his father, Kyle Reese, the man whom John must send back to 1984 to protect his mother, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), from being killed by the Terminator (Arnold ...
May 21, 2009 · In post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor is one of the leaders of the human resistance fighting against the ever-growing army of machines intent on wiping out mankind. After young Kyle Reese befriends Marcus Wright, a former death row inmate, John Connor discovers Skynet's plan to terminate Reese before he can travel back in time.
