Terminator’s first forgotten attempt to save himself

By Joshua Tyler | Published 23 seconds ago

Looking back now Terminator salvation It may have been appropriately named. Released in 2009, the objective of the film was a revitalization of the Terminator franchise. It was the first attempt to take it to the era after the Arnold. It should be the salvation of the Terminator franchise.

He failed, and the franchise has staggered a failure to the next since then.

Terminator salvation It is an entertaining movie, as long as you don’t think about it. The special effects are splashed, and the action is accelerated and fun.

The characters, with the exception of John Connor something blank of Bale, are interesting and well acted. The tragically left too soon, Anton Yelchin really shines on him, like Kyle Reese. In fact, forget John Connor. They should have given us a full film focused on it.

The problems of the film have nothing to do with anything that happened on the set during the creation of the film; They are much deeper and more entrenched than that. It is the script. It is the complete premise in which the film that is to blame is built, and there really is nothing that the director of the film, MCG, even if it had been allowed to deliver the film with R classification, this franchise deserved, it could have made to fix that.

The problem is Terminator: Salvation Villano, Skynet, which in this version is far from the unstoppable, abruptly intelligent machines that we have seen before. The film’s narrative is based on a complicated Skynet plot; Everything is in motion for that plot, everything happens due to that plan, and that plan is completely stupid.

Here is that plan: Skynet captures Kyle Reese and uses it to attract John Connor so he can kill him. Skynet knows that John Connor will come to save Kyle because Skynet knows that in his future, Kyle becomes John’s father, and Connor needs it if he wants to be born.

Kyle Reese is bait. John Connor is the goal. Why does Skynet not only shoot Kyle Reese in the head? Wouldn’t the problem solve that? Finished game. John Connor is dead.

Instead of doing so, Skynet builds a human cyborg and sends it after Connor. Cyborg believes he is human; In fact, he has free will and thinks exactly as a human.

Why Skynet would build such a creature is beyond the scope of any logic of the machine that can conjure. It establishes something that cannot be controlled, completely sure that it will still do exactly what is told, although there is absolutely no reason to believe that it will. Later, when it is given evidence of a positive proof that its creation Cyborg has changed sides, Skynet does not seem interested in doing anything to stop it. Instead, our Cyborg MacGuffin leaves without discomfort and is going to work undoing the terrible Skynet plan. Perhaps by then Skynet, like everyone in the audience, has decided that this plot is no longer worth it.

Terminator salvation It is based on a ridiculously unstable base, and there was no way to save it from such construction with brain death. However, it is fun to have him in him, as long as he does not happen more than a second thinking about logic in any of that.

Unfortunately for the Terminator brand, a terrible plot is not the way to launch the next phase of a mega box office franchise. Hollywood has continued trying after the salvation disaster, with equally terrible entries such as Genisys Terminator and Dark destinationBut nothing has worked. Terminator salvation It may have been your only opportunity for salvation.