Terminator Salvation
May 20, 2009 in theaters
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.
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"So that's what death tastes like."
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Sam Worthington was cast as Marcus Wright before Avatar -- both films released the same year and launched his career.
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The franchise's attempt to leave the time-travel structure behind and tell the post-apocalyptic war story that the earlier films only hinted at. The concept is sound and the production design is genuinely striking, but the execution is uneven -- Christian Bale's John Connor is written as an icon rather than a person, and the film never quite finds its emotional center. An interesting experiment in expanding the mythology that doesn't fully justify its own existence.
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