If you do want to pay full price to watch Terminator Salvation, you can rest assured that the Blu-ray does everything it’s supposed to - namely, look great, sound great, and include plenty of nifty bonus material. You get ’em here, in spades, and if the fact that the acting is almost uniformly horrible and the narrative sags makes Salvation a bad Terminator movie, that’s more or less to be expected for a 25-year-old sci-fi franchise that’s been abandoned by its creator and probably never needed to go beyond its first sequel, isn’t it? It isn’t every day a studio spends $200 million on a solidly cheesy B movie, and we should just relax and enjoy the experience - especially now that we don’t have to pay the price of a movie ticket to see it. Look at the cover art on the box: What is Terminator Salvation promising? Homicidal robots. If the storyline doesn’t quite jibe with whatever twists and turns the other films have carved out, and if characters come and go in the blink of an eye, so what? That’s stuff for the nerds to worry about. It rarely lags, the special effects are first-rate, and Sam Worthington shows the most acting talent any action hero has displayed since Brian Bosworth pretended to tackle Bo Jackson. But thankfully, that doesn’t happen too often: There are maybe four conversations in the entire movie that aren’t interrupted by some sort of crisis or explosion, and whatever his shortcomings as a director, McG was at least smart enough to pack the majority of Salvation‘s relatively slender 114-minute running time with badass, rock ’em-sock ’em man vs. It’s all very silly, in other words, and when Terminator Salvation slows down enough for you to notice that Anton Yelchin is running around with extras from the cast of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, or asks Moon Bloodgood to do anything other than run around and look fetching, or asks Christian Bale to do anything at all, the movie’s awkward, robotic clanking drowns out everything else. On that front, Terminator Salvation delivers beautifully: You get big robots, human-sized robots, freaky-looking water robots, robot-controlled motorcycles, and Christian Bale as a robot actor with its voice button stuck on “shout.” You also get a plot that, like all the best science fiction, is both needlessly complicated and unintentionally hilarious I’m giving nothing away when I tell you it includes a character leading an anti-robot resistance army that includes a boy who will grow up to be his own father, or that one of its more allegedly touching moments revolves around a cyborg giving up its heart for the good of all mankind. Like every other red-blooded American male, I watched and enjoyed the first two Terminator chapters, but I skipped 2003’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (and both Transformers movies), so I figured I was overdue for some heavy-duty robot action. No movie enraged its target audience more thoroughly this year, and since few things are funnier than grown men and women losing their shit when movies about evil death robots let them down, I had to see Terminator Salvation for myself. But what he didn’t understand was that the Terminator franchise isn’t about robots anymore - it’s really about canon-quibbling nerds who spend their downtime between new installments sharpening their knives for the next poor sap who dares to walk the hallowed path James Cameron cleared. He thought he was hired to direct a badass, rock ’em-sock ’em movie about evil death robots from the future (not Michael BublÁ©), and that’s what he delivered with Terminator Salvation. But as Skynet adapts new strategies to end the Resistance forever, Connor and Marcus must find common ground to take a stand against the onslaught-to infiltrate Skynet and meet the enemy head-on.Poor McG. Connor must decide whether Marcus can be trusted. But something totally new has shaken his belief that humanity stands a chance of winning this war: the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger from the past whose last memory is of being on death row before awakening in this strange, new world. Now the world is on the brink of the future that Connor has been warned about all his life. One man, whose destiny has always been intertwined with the fate of human existence: John Connor (Christian Bale). Controlling the Terminators is the artificial intelligence network Skynet, which became self-aware 14 years earlier and, in the blink of an eye, turned on its creators, unleashing nuclear annihilation on an unsuspecting world. But small groups of survivors have organized into a Resistance, hiding in underground bunkers and striking when they can against an enemy force that vastly outnumbers them. An army of Terminators roams the post-apocalyptic landscape, killing or collecting humans where they hide in the desolate cities and deserts. Judgment Day has come and gone, leveling modern civilization.
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