Terminator: Salvation, by far the most underrated Terminator film, finally gives us a long (two hours' worth, anyway) look at the bleak future glimpsed in the original Terminator. It looks like we all dodged a bullet, for now, since the movie, set during the war between humans and machines, takes place in 2018.
Surprisingly enough, the movie, the only one to not star Arnold Schwarzenegger and the first to not receive an R-rating, is among the best of the series. Salvation is also the only Terminator movie that doesn't feature time-travel.
The story centers on an adult John Connor during his time as a member of the human resistance but before he becomes its leader. While the troops under his command recognize John's potential, the heads of the Resistance have little time or faith in a quasi-prophet without a military background. A teenage and orphaned Kyle Reese, who ultimately fathers Connor, is also in the mix, struggling to survive in the bombed-out remnants of Los Angeles, which is teeming with various Terminator models stalking any remaining homo sapiens.
Sarah Connor, Skynet's long-ago (and future) target for assassination, is long dead and only exists as a voice on a collection of cassette tapes she recorded for her son. The newest player in the AI-gone-wrong saga is Marcus Wright, a deathrow inmate who remembers signing his body over to medical research before the nuclear strikes that wiped out most of humanity. changed the world.
As Connor discovers to his horror, the T-800 line of Terminators, one of which will eventually be sent back to 1984 to prevent his birth, have just come online and are nearly unstoppable.
But the T-800s are merely the cutting-edge of what the machines have to throw at mankind. Skynet's extensive arsenal includes: hydrobots, which patrol bodies of water; Moto-Terminators - riderless speed bikes that patrol the streets; T-1s, which are upright robots that travel on treads; T-600s, which are 800-lb humanoid robots with rubbery skin; T-700s, which look like skinless T-800s; HK-Aerials - flying robots that provide air support for ground-based machines (the HK stands for Hunter Killer); and Harvesters - giant robots that transport human captives.
But the T-800s are merely the cutting-edge of what the machines have to throw at mankind. Skynet's extensive arsenal includes: hydrobots, which patrol bodies of water; Moto-Terminators - riderless speed bikes that patrol the streets; T-1s, which are upright robots that travel on treads; T-600s, which are 800-lb humanoid robots with rubbery skin; T-700s, which look like skinless T-800s; HK-Aerials - flying robots that provide air support for ground-based machines (the HK stands for Hunter Killer); and Harvesters - giant robots that transport human captives.
Terminator: Salvation, released five months before the 25th year anniversary of the original's premier, returns the series to the dark tone of The Terminator.
Originally Posted 12/4/18
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