Terminator Salvation is the attempt of director McG to breathe some new life into an old franchise. He seemed poised for success (despite a moniker such as his), signing Christian Bale as John Connor and shooting with a script polished by not only Paul Haggis, but Johnathan Nolan as well. Nolan and Bale were two of the main ingredients in blowing up the latest Batman installments. So I was very disappointed that it just didn’t quite hit the mark.
The fourth movie in the series opens in 2018, with Judgment Day in the past and SkyNet working to finish extermination of the humans (I’m left with the burning question of what the machines will have to do once they do win the war). John Connor is grown, a leader in the resistance, married to Kate, and with a baby on the way. Marcus Wright is a product of CyberDyne, a machine with human organs, a melding of the two sides that the machines believe will finally give them the edge. Each man finds that Kyle Reese has become their top priority and both set out to do everything they can to protect him.
If you’ve seen any of the other movies in this franchise, you’ll understand that my synopsis is highly oversimplified. The ideas of time travel are far too complicated to include in such a short review. I will say that I enjoyed the story, that of John Connor ensuring the safety of the teenager that will one day become his father, but I hoped that there would be more story to it. The film relies heavily on battle scenes and visual effects and the more interesting events and ideas of the timeline remain unexplored and unexplained. It’s not a bad movie, but definitely not a great one.
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I’m so sad this movie’s not great. Waaah.