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TERMINATOR SALVATION
So, after all the rants, the raves, the ratcheting up of tension, can this, the latest instalment of the Terminator franchise, really live up to the hype? The answer is a resounding yes, because there's never been a summer blockbuster where the money has been more up there on the screen. If you want action, thrills, spills, amazing CGI and make up effects then look no further because Terminator Salvation delivers on absolutely every front.
In this particular episode of mankind against the machines we visit events in the future Sarah Connor never told her son John about - mainly because this fourth part of the story hadn't even been envisaged when the original came out. However, scriptwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris, do well to keep in all the facts we do already know and then augment them with a new, well thought out story strand. In our own time Sarah Connor has been visited by a man from the future who becomes the father of her son, John (Christian Bale), who grows to lead mankind's resistance against the deadly machines. Also in our own time the newly introduced figure of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) is facing the death penalty for killing his brother and two policemen. Believing himself to be damned, Marcus is offered a 'second chance' to redeem himself by scientist Dr Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) who, after his execution, wants him to donate his body to a special experimental procedure she hopes will help cure cancer in the future. Unfortunately, she has no idea what a nightmare the future will turn out to be, so when Marcus reawakens he finds the last dregs of humanity, including a young man named Kyle (Anton Yelchin), valiantly battling machines intent on wiping out mankind. There is a rumour that a brave leader named John Connor is their last best hope of winning the war and so an amnesiac Marcus and Kyle set out to try and find him. Their frequent encounters with terminators on the way throw up more questions about just who the seemingly indestructible Marcus is than they answer, and by the time Marcus finally meets John no one - not even Marcus himself - is sure what he has become and whose side he is on.
Although the storyline may sound slightly complex, in fact it is so straightforwardly explained the audience is left to concentrate on what Terminator Salvation is really all about - spectacle. From the very opening scenes of a resistance attack on a machine base through some truly awe-inspiring chase scenes (by car, terminator bike and by fighter plane) to its last showdown in the terminator factory, this is real seat of your pants stuff. The film creates an almost unbearable atmosphere of paranoia and fear and you'll be gnawing your knuckles down to bare bone with the tension of it all. Christian Bale's intensity sears white hot from the screen but this isn't, in fact, John Connor's movie. For long passages of the film he's not even on screen as the action sits firmly on Sam Worthington's shoulders as the confused, tormented Marcus. Worthington - in the absence of an Arnie Terminator character -- provides a perfect foil for Bale while Anton Yelchin (so brilliant in Star Trek) once again adds youthful energy as the idealistic Kyle, innocently hero-worshipping John Connor. So, if you want stupendously explosive action with seamless special effects and real heart-pounding excitement, look no further. The summer blockbuster has landed.
Dee Pilgrim
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