Terminator Salvation (2009)

Release date: 2009-06-09
Country: USA|Germany|UK|Italy
Language: English|Italian
Director: McG
Production Co: The Halcyon Company, Wonderland Sound and Vision, Columbia Pictures
Genre: Action, Science Fiction
Rating: 6.5/10
Length: 1h 55min

Storyline

In 2003, in the Longview State Correctional Facility, the criminal Marcus Wright is on death row, and is convinced by the cancerous Dr. Serena Kogan to donate his body to her research and he accepts. In 2018, after an unsuccessful attack to a Skynet facility, only John Connor survives, but he discovers that Skynet is developing the powerful new model T-800. Out of the blue, Marcus appears naked and with amnesia in the location. Marcus befriends the teenager Kyle Reese and the girl Star who help him to survive the lethal machines and they travel together in a Jeep. Meanwhile the resistance discovers a signal that might turn-off the machines and John offers to test it. When Kyle is captured by a machine and brought to the Skynet headquarters, Marcus decides to help the youngster and heads to Skynet; on the way, he saves Blair Williams who suggests to him that he should meet John Connor first. But Marcus steps on a mine and is submitted to surgery, when a secret about his origins is ...

Plot Keywords

machine, future, rescue, held at gunpoint, head ripped off, head butt, grenade launcher, helicopter crash, hit by a car, hanging upside down, husband wife relationship, impalement, jumping from a helicopter, knocked out with a gun butt, gash in the face, child with a gun, crushed to death, death of brother, exploding body, exploding building

Short Review

Missing is Cameron's signature action modification, best exploited in Aliens: the strapping female heroine. McG's testosterone-juiced world feels a little doomed without her.