terminator salvation

I heart Anton Yelchin. Seriously, who is this kid? First in STAR TREK and now there he is being fabulous in TERMINATOR SALVATION....Yelchin plays Kyle Reese, teenage father-to-be of John Connor.

Leading up to seeing this flick, the roomie and I watched the first three films. This fourth film is truly a departure of tone from the previous ones. It feels much darker and moodier, most likely because we have finally had Judgement Day, and the world is now a dusty war zone. The Resistance is fighting SkyNet, and they believe they may have found a weapon to beat it.


The fight sequences in this film are fabulous, and there are some nifty new machines making chaos for the humans. Christian Bale makes a good John Connor, although in many ways, this film belongs to the very talented Sam Worthington. (It is such a bummer that they revealed in the trailer for the film that his character Marcus is part machine....it would have been so cool to have that revealed in the course of the film - instead, I was just waiting for that scene to happen.) Bale is not yet leading the resistance, instead more of a general in the army. He and his wife are working together, she as a doctor. One bummer of this movie is that they set up Kate in the 3rd movie to be a kick-*ss partner to John, and in the fourth film, although played by the lovely Bryce Dallas Howard, she doesn't do much of anything, and you don't really get to see that partnership, or her really being the leader that she is supposed to be.


Final thoughts: Cool action sequences, some very cool actors, a fun, summer movie. The real question is, during what scene did Bale have the very famous freak-out?

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