Everyone behind the scenes deserves a pat on the back for giving this film a visual style that earns Salvation the right to be considered canon. There's not a single environmental setting that looks pretty, as mostly everything is comprised of large pockets of dirt and rubble as far as the eye can see. To complete the post-apocalyptic world McG set out to achieve, he shook off the tone dampening Hollywood sheen from the environment. Every Skynet branded design is logical when taking James Cameron's directorial offerings into consideration they're cold, just as physically menacing as the fleshless exoskeleton from the first film, and devastatingly calculative.
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Fortunately, Terminator Salvation returns the series to the dark and gritty roots that made the franchise so appealing to begin with. Terminator 3 missed every opportunity it had to keep the viewer grounded in reality, as it often opted to wow the audience with flashy effects and cartoonish machine designs instead. One of the major concerns I had going into this film was how the visual tone was going to be conveyed. Furthermore, Marcus' eventual arrival at Resistance headquarters brings important information to light that challenges everything Connor thought he knew about the machines capabilities and wartime strategies. Connor learns of his father's capture, and worries the attack on the Skynet base will drastically alter the fate of mankind, and any hope it has to survive along with it. Unfortunately, Reese is kidnapped by the machines along the way, and is held at a Skynet facility that the Resistance is planning to destroy. Tired of waiting around to be found and exterminated, they decide to leave their shelter so they can find and join the Resistance. Later that evening, they hear Connor broadcasting an uplifting message of hope and survival. Kyle Reese saves Marcus from the death-hungry pile of tin, and fills him in on everything that's been going on since Judgment Day. Entirely unaware of the ongoing annihilation of the human race by the machines, Marcus eventually finds himself on the run from a T-600 model terminator. Now he's up and walking around again for reasons unbeknownst to him, forced to explore the cracks and crevices of a world he's become a stranger to. He was sentenced to death in 2003 via lethal injection, but had agreed to donate his body to science shortly before his execution. Meanwhile, the central character of this particular Terminator film, Marcus Wright, wakes up naked and confused at a decimated Skynet facility. Initiating a raid on a Skynet base reveals blueprints for the T-800 model he became familiar with during his childhood, as well as a termination order that has his father, Kyle Reese, at the top of the list. Connor's time to stand up and command is drawing close though, as pieces of the puzzle his mother told him about when he was just a boy are finally coming to fruition. On the flip side of the coin, there are also those that consider the hype around Connor to be foolishly unwarranted. When the cogs of war have felt the human spirit was nothing but a distant memory, Connor has continually been the motivational voice to keep morale high when it mattered most. John Connor isn't the leader he was fabled to be as of yet, but his pre-existing knowledge of the machines has gained him a lot of respect amongst the ranks. Since that fateful day, survivors have banded together to form the Resistance, a militant organization that acts as humanity's final hope against extinction. The year is 2018, roughly 14 years after Skynet became self aware and unleashed a nuclear apocalypse (known as Judgment Day) upon the human race. This film is a solid effort that once again brings respectability back to the series by boldly thinking outside the 'Connor' storyline box. With Terminator Salvation finally available on Blu-ray, my concerns have finally been put to rest. The promise of finally being able to see the war being waged between man and machine brought excitement to my inner child, but seeing the same director that brought us Charlie's Angels at the helm kept my expectations in check. However, when I heard the story was going to continue without Schwarzenegger reprising his role as the T-800 killing machine, I found myself to be thoroughly conflicted. Many years of patience was 'rewarded' with Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines, and although it wasn't a terrible film, it didn't bring anything new to the table.
After watching the first two films a bajillion times, playing the video games, and reading countless comic book spin-offs, to say I was ready to see the war against the machines in a major motion picture would have been an understatement. Like many of you, I grew up on the iconic Terminator franchise.
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