Terminator Salvation (English - 2009)

Terminator Salvation is a 2009 English Action Movie which is a sequel of the famous Terminator series. Its a complete action filled science fiction movie which tells the story of a full fledged war between humans and machines. If you've watched the previous movies, you'll find it easier to understand and link with the concepts.

The film starts with an incident that took place in an American prison in 2003. An inmate Marcus, who was sentenced for execution by lethal injection is convinced by a scientist of Cyberdyne systems to donate his body to a scietific project. And in 2004, if you've watched Terminator 3, the skynet system gets activated and it destroys most of the humanity in an event known as Judgement day. But the remaining humans got together and started to fight against the machines in an attempt to regain control of the earth. Then the film advances to 2018 and we are in a war field with a number of human soldiers (the Resistance) lead by John Connor (Christian Bale) is raiding a skynet base. There they found out lot of human captives and it becomes clear that the machines are using these humans for the development of new type of terminators which resembles humans in the external appearance. But before the team lead by Connor can do anything the machines attack their own base with nuclear arms and everyone except Connor got killed. Before leaving the site, Connor had to fight hand to hand with a Terminator, but he survives in the end and leaves to his base. Later from the base one more person comes out and that is Marcus. He also proceeds on foot to find out someone.

After a long walk, Marcus reaches Los Angeles and there he was attacked by a terminator. But then an young lad Kyle Reese and his friend, a mute girl, came to his rescue and they informs him about the Judgement day and what happened to the world. By this time, Connor reaches his head quarters and informs his seniors about the humans he had found in the skynet base and the possible plans of the machines to create advanced Terminators. The headquarters is in a submarine and Connor was air dropped to the sea for entering into the head quarters. That was an awesome scene. From the head quarters he is informed about a particular frequency that was believed to be useful in shutting down the machines. He takes that and leaves to his base. Later Marcus and Reeves happen to hear Connor's radio broadcast and they leave Los Angeles in search of other humans. Enroute they got chased by a terminator, but Marcus manages to destroy it. They reaches a fuel station where they found out some humans, but within a few minutes, a bigger terminator arrives and takes a number of people as hostages.




Marcus, Reeves and the little girl manages to escape, but were chased by the terminators. They caught them on a bridge, and Reeves and the little girl were also taken as prisoners. By this time, the Resistance had spotted extensive movements in an area near to Los Angeles and sent two fighter air crafts for support. These fighters engages with the terminators and both were destroyed. The terminator took the hostages to its base. Marcus fell down to the river under the bridge, but manages to survive and he finds out Williams, the fighter pilot. Both of them then moves to the nearby base. Enroute they were attacked by a number of humans who didnt believe in the war. They tried to harm Williams, but then Marcus came to her rescue and this made them close to each other.

Later when they arrived at the base, Marcus is wounded by a land mine. And the people at the base were stunned to find out that he is a cyborg. But Marcus and Williams believes that he is human and Williams later helps Marcus to escape from Connor's prison. In the following fight, Marcus saves Connor from the terminators, and they make a pact. According to that, Marcus will go to the Skynet headquarters and will try to disable the defence system so that John can enter into it and can save the humans who were taken as prisoners.

The Resistance was planning to launch an attack on the machines that day. But because of this development regarding Marcus and the prisoners, Connor requests his leaders not to launch the attack. But they wont listen to him and soon after an arguement, Connor was released of all his commands. But the soldiers who were loyal to Connor refused to launch an attack and they stayed with Connor. By this time, Marcus enters the Skynet Headquarters and helps Connor to get in. Marcus comes into contact with the central system and he came to know that he indeed was a project of the Skynet and they were using him to bring Connor to the Skynet. And it turned to a trap. Even the frequency that the Resistance got was part of the trap. But Marcus refuses to accept all these and in a rage, he destroys the interface. Then he goes in search of Connor.

By this time, Connor rescued all the prisoners and was in search of Reeves. He was aware of the execution list that the machines were following to destroy the resistance. He was the second one in the list an Reese was the first one. Reese was the person in the first Terminator film who came to rescue Sarah Connor. And John knew that Reese is going to be his father. But he faces a terminator(Arnold) in the prison that was told to him before as the prison of Reese. And there starts a big fight. The terminator is so strong that whenever it gets hold of Connor, he is thrown away. Later Marcus also comes to his help and they manages to destroy the Terminator. But in this fight, Connor is seriously hurt. Later Connor, Marcus and Reese are air lifted to the base.

In the base, Connor is in a critical situation. His heart is damaged. But Marcus tells them that he is ready to sacrifice himself for the humanity by donating his heart (he has a human heart, but metal body) to Connor. In the end Connor broadcasts a radio message to the fellow Resistance members telling that eventhough they won this war, it is not yet over.

The movie is for only an hour and around 40 minutes. But its fully action packed and its worth the money you are paying. I give a 4 star to this movie.

My Rating : Must Watch (****)