Watched Terminator Salvation on Saturday evening at Satyam Cinemas.
This is the 4th installment of the immensely popular Terminator Movie franchise. And this is the first one that doesn't feature the man who was created by God to play the role of the Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger. Any number of Marlon Brandos and Al Pacinos and Christopher Reeves and Denzel Washingtons may come and go, but none of them can ever be a Terminator.
The role of the Terminator suite Arnold perfectly because of his absolute inability to act or deliver dialogues with emotions. Unfortunately, the plot of the latest installment of the Terminator series - Terminator Salvation - required the Cyborg to emote. Not something that the Governor of California can do.
The other big change in Terminator Salvation is the lack of Time Travel. In all 3 earlier editions, the T machines came to the present from the future. But in this movie, there is no such travel across the time quantum.
And that kind of threw me a little off-balance. The story takes place in the "current" year of 2018. But John Connor is actually older than his father Kyle Reese. In the absence of a time travel, I am unable to understand how this could happen. Maybe I am now doubting the very basis of Terminator movies, but still, I hope some Sci-Fi aficionado would be able to explain things to me.
Special effects were quite good, but nothing to rave about. The plot was not convincing and presented a lot of "why didn't he do that?" and "why are the machines not doing this?" type of questions. But on the whole the movie was not great.
That at the least the opinion i have and am sticking to it.
2 comments:
A few years after this movie, Skynet develops a machine that has the ability to warp space-time, just enough to send stuff back into the past. Which was how Arnold Schwarzennegger was sent to the past to kill Sarah Connor. John Connor sends Kyle Reece back to the past to save Sarah Connor, and Kyle gets busy and impregnates Sarah Connor, hence fertilizing the way for John Connor to be born. Which is why saving Kyle Reece was so important in the present i.e. 2018. In other words.... podaaango.
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