Terminator Salvation (2009)
Directed by McG
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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What critics say influenced Terminator Salvation
Terminator: Salvation does not seem like a Terminator movie, at least when compared to what we have experienced from filmmakers James Cameron ( The Terminator , Terminator 2: Judgment Day ) and Jonathan Mostow ( Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ).
Reese will, alas, grow up to be as humorless as John Connor, but James Cameron sensibly didn�t ask Reese to anchor The Terminator.
Even charismatic leading man Christian Bale -- whose expletive-riddled rant at "Salvation" cinematographer Shane Hurlbut became an Internet hit -- can't rescue the film from its own destructive disposition.The year is 2018, and the hopeless, war-torn future Sarah Connor so aggressively tried to alter (in "The Terminator" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day") has come to pass.
“Terminator Salvation,” directed by McG and written by John D. Brancato and Michael Ferris, mines the mythology of James Cameron’s original 1984 “The Terminator” by indifferently hacking away at it with a virtual remote-controlled backhoe.
Like the sentinels from The Matrix, the plucked-up people and cattle calls from Spielberg�s War of the Worlds, General Grievous from Revenge of the Sith the "you arrogant ass, you've killed us" moment from The Hunt for Red October and about another half-dozen lifted derivatives.
It was reminiscent of the scary sound made by the Tripods in Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds.”
While it’s true that there is a staleness to some of the action scenes in “Salvation,” such as when humans are violently plucked and collected for study by towering robots (think Steven Spielberg’s version of “ War of the Worlds ”), other scenes are fresh and exciting, such as when snake-like robots swarm in for a feast and then find themselves writhing for their undead lives.
Then we could follow the Predators as they do their work, expanding the limited conception that the writers gave him (one of the few creative elements that was carried over from the first Predator film to the second was that Jim and John Thomas wrote both scripts).
Like the sentinels from The Matrix, the plucked-up people and cattle calls from Spielberg�s War of the Worlds, General Grievous from Revenge of the Sith the "you arrogant ass, you've killed us" moment from The Hunt for Red October and about another half-dozen lifted derivatives.