(This is just one of the script’s time travel complications.) With the help of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a newcomer to the resistance group, John attempts to infiltrate the command center, find the teenaged version of his dad and free the scores of other human captives being held against their will in the belly of the building. However, an attack on the robots’ Skynet headquarters is postponed when John discovers that Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin), his future father, is a prisoner at the facility. John Conner (Christian Bale), now an adult with a wife (Bryce Dallas Howard), and a baby on the way, leads a smattering of human resistance fighters in a last ditch effort to stop the army of Terminators. Except for a few pockets of survivors, most of mankind has been destroyed. Set in a dreary 2018, this fourth installment focuses on the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust known as Judgment Day. (The sexiest scenes we get are a woman removing her jacket and exposing some lingerie while dressing a shoulder injury and a couple of carefully shadowed naked males running around a war zone.) Instead, filmmakers have avoided all but a dozen or so moderate profanities and curtailed almost any sexual activity in order to maintain the non-stop assault of bomb blasts, gunfire and other incendiary explosions. Terminator Salvation is the first in this ammunition-riddled series to earn a PG-13 rating in the United States, opening the ticket lines for younger audiences to get in on the action long before it releases on video store shelves.īut, don’t expect the violence to be tamed down in this post-apocalyptic thriller out of respect for the milder rating.

Yet, it’s not him who gets to utter those famous words, “I’ll be back.” To find that out, you’ll have to see the movie.Īnd, thanks to the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), seeing this flick will be a whole lot easier-especially for kids and teens. While gubernatorial duties seemed to have kept Arnold Schwarzenegger from reprising his role as the muscle-bound Terminator in this latest film, a digital version of the former actor does make it on to the screen.

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