Saturday, May 6, 2017

Terminator: Salvation (2009)

This was supposed to go up on Friday, but I ran out of time.  A skeleton-like machine with bright red eyes holding a gun in the background, while two men in battle fatigues, one of them holding a rifle, stand in the foreground. Below them are the credits, tagline and title.  This was a really terrible movie that just goes to prove that you can have a beloved franchise chock full of stars and still suck.

The future is now.  John Connor (Christian Bale) works within the Resistance against the machines, struggling with the knowledge that was given to him out of time by his mother (Lady Not Appearing in This Film).  He captures a terminator that doesn't know it's a terminator (Sam Worthington) and learns that teenage Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin, RIP) has been captured by Skynet.  Then he must decide whether or not to trust the existentially-conflicted robot.

I'm telling you people, this is bad.  It is not worth watching.

The sad part is that it tried so hard to tie in to the other three movies.  Canon doesn't equal good.  I don't have Terminator Genysis but I've heard it's even worse.  At this point, I am willing to disavow knowledge of 3 and 4 and pretend the first two are the only ones that exist.  And the Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show.  That's can stay.

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