And when Kyle is captured and taken to the Skynet base in San Francisco, John Connor and the Resistance face a dilemma. In the kind of space/time dilemma the Connor clan must be getting pretty darned sick of, Kyle travelled back to 1984 in the first film, got frisky with Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton, so who could blame him?) and sired the future rebel.
This is because the machines know that Kyle is John Connor's father.
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When they head north, they're perplexed to find themselves prime targets for a series of Skynet attacks. When he reaches the ruins of Los Angeles, he is saved from a T-600 Terminator by a scruffy but quick-thinking young man called Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin). This is Marcus (Sam Worthington), a salty-looking dude who has no idea who he is or where he came from. Connor heads back to base, thinking he's the sole survivor, but after he leaves a naked prisoner emerges from the smoke. He's weighing up the implications of this when a huge explosion kills all his comrades. When he's involved in a raid of Skynet base, Connor discovers human prisoners and plans for a new kind of Terminator that will incorporate living tissue. Though John Connor is not yet a Resistance leader, his exploits have made him a talismanic figure. In this film, it's 2018, and a post-apocalyptic California (looks like old Arnie failed) is being fought over by the Resistance and a terrifying army of machines. A resistance movement grows, ultimately led by one John Connor (Christian Bale), which is why old Arnie was sent back in time in the first place to stop him being born by whacking his mother. After nuking all the major cities, it manufactures a series of killer robots, or Terminators, to finish off the survivors. While it may have a point, its methods are environmentally questionable. And so, in this fourth outing, the focus shifts to John Connor, as he struggles to lead the human resistance to the machines.Ī quick refresher course in Terminator babble: in the near future, a massive computer that orbits the earth called Skynet suddenly becomes "self-aware" (starts wearing fake tan, and parting its hair to one side), and decides that the best thing for planet earth would be if mankind were extinguished.
Ok, I know there has been the Sarah Connor Chronicles on TV, but this is the first Terminator feature film not to boast the presence of a certain hefty Austrian.Īrnie, of course, was unavailable for selection, as he is currently saving California from economic meltdown, a task worthy of any Terminator.