Terminator Already Wasted Schwarzenegger's Best Franchise Role 15 Years Ago
Terminator: Salvation features an appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800, but the divisive 2009 film ultimately wastes his best franchise return.
Terminator Salvation (2009)
In post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor is one of the leaders of the human resistance fighting against the ever-growing army of machines intent on wiping out mankind. After young Kyle Reese befriends Marcus Wright, a former death row inmate, John Connor discovers Skynet's plan to terminate Reese before he can travel back in time. The military leader is forced to scour the war-torn wasteland to find his teenage father to ensure his own survival.
Terminator Salvation
- Director
- McG
- Release Date
- May 21, 2009
- Studio(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Cast
- Sam Worthington , Moon Bloodgood , Christian Bale , Bryce Dallas Howard , Anton Yelchin
- Writers
- Michael Ferris , John Brancato
- Runtime
- 115 minutes
- Franchise(s)
- The Terminator
- Sequel(s)
- Terminator: Dark Fate , Terminator Genisys
- prequel(s)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day , Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) , The Terminator (1984)
- Budget
- $200 million
Summary
In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?
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