Terminator Salvation – How Sam stole the show.
June 5th 2009 09:03
Who's the star?
We’re taken back (or forward rather) to where it all began. John Conner (Bale) is fighting a war against the machines. He’s set up a resistance of humans unwilling to let the robots dominate. He often listens to voice recordings of his mother Sarah Conner for prophetic guidance and splits his remaining time fairly evenly between broadcasting voice transmissions to the remaining humans scattered round America (Sadly the rest of the world didn’t make the cut.) and shooting at machines. It’s hard to ever really like him.
Aussie Sam Worthington plays Marcus Wright, a man with a shady past who gets dealt a second hand with a twist. Admittedly, his expression rarely varies throughout the film but somehow despite this the audience feels a sincere empathy for his plight. Other characters also show flair within the confines of their limited roles. I won’t give away the end, but in a scene reminiscent of when Arnie in Christ-like fashion lowered himself into a molten pit in T2… we once again feel our true hero is sacrificed.
T2- Flashback
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