Terminator Salvation - Movie Review and Synopsis
Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
Terminator Salvation reminds me of Iron Man in that it capitalized on Comic-Con to get fans of the saga off of McG’s back and on his side instead. After a spirited presentation in San Diego last year, where the director eloquently described the story’s theme of an individual’s free will versus their destiny, the haters unfolded their arms and realized that the man up on the stage isn’t the same guy who made Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. In all honestly, once Christian Bale signed up to play John Connor, I sensed that TS might wind up being the second best Terminator movie ever. And with Sam Worthington bending the story’s mythology a bit more, do you really need a Schwarzenegger cameo here? (No, but I, in narrator mode, give a roar of approval for the presence of Linda Hamilton.) More memorable awesomeness from Comic-Con was Anton Yelchin’s quote regarding his ambition for his character, Kyle Reese: To show “how Michael Biehn became so awesome that Linda Hamilton would sleep with him.”
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and language.
Director: McG
Stars: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: 27 May 2009 (Indonesia)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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