Terminator Salvation

Watched Terminator Salvation with Edwin and Yiling just now. The synopsis and review are as follows.

Set in 2018, the film focuses on the original war between the human race and the Terminator computer network, Skynet. After destroying almost the entire human race on Earth in a nuclear holocaust, a group of survivors led by John Connor stands up to the war and together they struggle to keep those machines at bay and from completely wiping away the human race.

Critics mainly slammed this movie but I enjoyed Terminator Salvation quite a bit. The movie is highly engrossing from start to finish and it has incredibly high octane action sequences. The cast with the likes of Christian Bale and Sam Worthington did quite a good job, with the latter doing a better job. The story is better than the average action movie, with character development of Marcus Wright from start to end. He was the crux to this movie as this story exemplifies the strength of the human heart and its limitless boundaries.

However, there are some portions of the story which does not explain clearly to audiences how they happened, for example the time travel part which was not shown. Still, this futuristic action film deserves props for the intense action sequences, awesome special effects, good cast, and better than expected storyline.

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