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Their resistance efforts turn to testing end deploying an "off-switch" signal against the machines, but in his free time, Connor still sends out messianic radio broadcasts to his small but loyal audience of true believers and listens to tapes from his dearly departed mother Sarah (Linda Hamilton). John Connor's "J.C." has always been the promised savior of the post-apocalyptic human race, though here he's still grudgingly taking orders from elder non-believers (especially, in a nice bit of genre-friendly casting, Michael Ironside of Total Recall). Among the women, only Moon Bloodgood's Blair gets an interesting story beat, as she bonds with her savior Marcus. The deeply respected Jane Alexander turns up for only a handful of lines, and Bryce Dallas Howard gets an entirely thankless role as Connor's pregnant wife Kate. Even more paltry than the themes are the supporting roles. "If we behave like them, what is the point in winning?!" (take that, American torture defenders!) A few lines like these are sprinkled about the picture merely to excuse the mindless but spectacular sci-fi action unfortunately, the clunky dialogue and dopey plot twists do damage by inspiring inappropriate laughter. Suffice it to say that Terminator Salvation is a sort of "man and superman" tale with thinly developed super-text of what it means to be human. The film's opening sequence leaves little doubt as to what's going on with the Wright character-and the film's previews have left even less. He's also said to have an exceptionally strong heart. Wright, an ex-con carrying a heavy weight and a cloudy past, has mysterious ties to Skynet, the computer system that became self-aware and nuked Earth as an opening salvo in a war against humans. And so it is that John Connor shares equivalent screen time to new protagonist Marcus Wright (up-and-coming Aussie Sam Worthington).
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Brancato & Michael Ferris (who also wrote Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, a punching bag for many fans) wrote the underlying script, the first set primarily after Judgment Day (excepting an episode of Fox's just-cancelled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), but the finished screenplay is the result of contortions conditional to Bale taking the role of Connor, and a polish by Jonathan Nolan, a screenwriter trusted by Bale. Most of the relentlessly grim Terminator Salvation takes place in 2018, in a desaturated post-Judgment Day landscape that's the setting for the machines' ongoing holocaust of the human race. But the unfocused story is only half-considered, with important connective tissue no doubt on the cutting room floor (and soon in the home-video bonus features) and lapses in logic that no amount of blooming fireballs can conceal.
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The order of the day is lots of noisy, yawning, metal-crunching mayhem, and purely on that level, Terminator Salvation is passable action trash. Beside the heavy artillery, we get Christian Bale (from the studio's top-performing Batman franchise) as John Connor and, yes, a CGI cameo from the Governator-just in case. In an attempt to prolong the life of a franchise seemingly past its sell-by date, Warner Brothers has literally and figuratively brought out the big guns for Terminator Salvation, the fourth Terminator film. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) Hell on Wheels: The Complete First Season (2012) Pocahontas/Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1995)įalling Skies: The Complete Second Season (2011)