Film Review - Terminator Salvation

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3. Film Review [Word count: 432] Terminator Salvation (2009) Directed by McG Produced by The Halcyon Company in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision Running time 114 minutes Terminator Salvation, the fourth film in the Terminator series, manages to salvage the franchise from the wreck that was Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). Frenzied action and spectacular special effects make for a highly entertaining film that Terminator creator, James Cameron, would be proud of. The first few minutes of Terminator Salvation are set in 2003 where Marcus Wright, a death row inmate, donates his body to science. The rest of the plot takes place in post-apocalyptic 2018 where humanity is in a fight for survival against the machines. Here we meet John Connor, modern-day prophet and resistance hero, number two on Skynet’s most wanted list. Both Connor and the machines are looking for Skynet’s most wanted person, Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) who, sometime in the future, will travel back to 1984, meet Sarah Connor and father John. When the amnesic Wright encounters Reese in 2018 a series of coincidences bring him into contact with Connor and eventually to the realisation of what he has become. The film provides many familiar Terminator moments, including the recycling of the catchphrase “come with me if you want to live” and most famously, “I’ll be back”. The unexpected twist which sees an age-defying Arnold Schwarzenegger resuming, if briefly, his role as the T-800 (thanks to some seamless CGI work) will definitely please the fans. That said, Terminator Salvation is much more than a rehashing of the previous films in the series. With the disappearance of the time-travelling cyborg and post-apocalyptic setting of the film, Terminator Salvation introduces a new storyline centred on John Connor (Christian Bale) and the (not so) mysterious Marcus

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