Finally got to catch Terminator Salvation just now.
I must say, this third sequel to the franchise (or prequel, if you want to get all particular about event chronology) is a sci-fi, action packed 3D feast for the eyes. Wait, have I said that about another movie before...? Digressing...
It's pretty easy on the newbies, if you consider giving the series backstory in short lines of text over at the start of the movie easy. Other than that, newbies: you're good to go.
This installment features a future, older John Connor, played by Christian Bale. Battle-hardened with probably an overactive paranoia of machines, John's come a long way since we last saw him in the events of Terminator 3, and has since been seen as the de facto leader of the resistance and the human race. Okay well, maybe not leader; preacher, or chaplain maybe? As in those Warhammer 40K Space Marine leader units. Okay, I see many blank faces...moving on.
Rollin' in his crew is his officer and right hand man Barnes, played by *gasp* COMMON! Probably one of my favourite hip-hop artists to date ever since I first heard his track 'Go!' on one of the Don and Drew podcasts.
Fanboy moment there. XD
So apparently he's got to find Kyle Reese a.k.a his father from the future. Thing is, in this present time, Kyle's only a teenager, lost in the ruins of L.A. Okay, so he finds him. But think about it: what's he gonna do?
Tell him: "Hey, I want you to go back into the past, save my mother and hopefully screw her so that I might actually exist. You'd do that for me? Hey, thanks dad. You're the best dad EVER! *HUGS*"?
This whole past/present/future time travel thing gets fucked up the more we try to think about it.
My suggestion?
Stop.
