Salvation doesn’t take much time to consider anything. Although the first three movies have more than their fair share of action, there are moments to pause and consider what role saviors have in this upcoming war.
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That’s an odd problem for a movie to have: “How do we get our movie star and main character to organically fit into the plot?” and it’s a problem the film never really solves. The particulars may be unclear, and I suppose there’s the mystery of “Why does he not know he’s a Terminator,” but it’s a slog to get to that point, and that’s because John Connor is in the way.
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When he emerges from the crater left by the machines (who I guess were precise enough in their detonation to avoid hitting the terminator they needed), we know he’s not human.
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All the prologue really tells us is that Marcus did something bad and he’s signing his body over to science. The movie fumbles from the start where we know more about Marcus than he does about himself, so we’re waiting for him to learn he’s a terminator. It’s a dry action movie where a lot of set pieces happen and the characters are mostly ineffective and insignificant. The script development for Terminator Salvation is more interesting than the movie, but the key take away from that article is that while the original script was no great shakes, the killer blow was shoehorning in John Connor ( Christian Bale) at the expense of Marcus Wright ( Sam Worthington) so that neither character makes much of a difference.