Terminator Salvation

The fourth installment of the Terminator series follows an adult John Connor (played by Christian Bale) as he attempts to organize a human resistance force which could prove to be mankind's last true hope in the war against the machines. Opening in the year 2018, Terminator Salvation finds John ...more

Whether it’s rivers running red with blood, an unending snowfall slowly smothering the earth, or robots trouncing humankind into inexistence, visions of the apocalypse continue to capture the imagination. The Terminator series continues the tradition of Armageddon lore with Terminator: Salvation, a gritty, heart-racing resuscitation of the 25-year-old franchise. Salvation takes the series into the epicenter of James Cameron’s epic storyline: the future. The year is 2018 and the world has ...more

There's a certain, sad sci-fi irony when one considers that the first Terminator film to feature a robot with a human heart is also the first film in the series that feels like it has no soul. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was no masterpiece, but at least Jonathan Mostow's direction was fairly assured, and the grim apocalyptic coda still felt loyal to James Cameron's original, technologically paranoid concept. The spark was still there, even if it had already begun to fade. Unfortunately, ...more