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Terminator Salvation is an action-packed science fiction film and is the fourth Terminator film.

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Christian Bale as John Connor in "Terminator Salvation"

The movie starts briefly in the year 2003 where Dr. Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) convinces death row inmate Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) to sign his body over for medical research following his execution by lethal injection. The year after, the Skynet system is activated and sees humans as a threat to its own existence, and eradicates much of humanity in the event known as Judgment Day.

Fast forward to the year 2018, John Connor (Christian Bale) leads an attack by the Resistance on a Skynet base. John discovers human prisoners in the underground but shortly after that the base is destroyed by a nuclear attack and John seems to be the only survivor. Marcus emerges from the wreckage of the base and walks to Los Angeles.

Marcus is saved from a T-600 Terminator by Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) and his mute friend, Star (Jadagrace Berry) in the ruins of Los Angeles. The three leave Los Angeles in search of the Resistance upon hearing John Connor on the radio. Though they survive the attack by the machine, Kyle, Star, and several other humans are taken prisoner while two Resistance aircrafts are shot down. Marcus manages to locate the pilot Blair Williams (Moon Bloodgood). While they find their way to John’s base, Marcus is injured by a land mine. The Resistance discovers that Marcus is a cyborg with human organs and a mechanical endoskeleton when they try to save him and John orders to destroy the cyborg. However, Blair helps Marcus to escape from the base. During the pursuit of Marcus, John is saved from Skynet hydrobots by Marcus and they form an unwilling alliance where Marcus will help John gets into Skynet base to save Kyle Reese.

In the process of saving Kyle and the other human prisoners from Skynet base, John is critically injured by a T-800 Model 101 Terminator although Marcus manages to get rid of T-800 eventually. Although John manages to destroy Skynet base by rigging several Terminator nuclear power cells to form an explosive, his heart is damaged by a T-800. Marcus offers his heart for transplant as he thinks everyone deserves a second chance and thus sacrificing himself to save John.

Overall, Terminator Salvation is an action-packed film that is brilliant and lacks nothing except maybe it needs a little bit more romantic scenes. Sam Worthington definitely fares better than Christian Bale with his outstanding performance while Anton Yelchin (the Russian who acted in Star Trek) did exceptionally well although his duration on the screen is lesser.

My ratings: 8 out of 10.

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Terminator Salvation a.k.a. Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins is the fourth Terminator movie. It continues from the 2003 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. After Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, a group of survivors led by John Connor (Christian Bale) struggles to keep the machines from finishing the job. Terminator Salvation will be released on May 22, 2009.

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