2009 · action · sci-fi · thriller
Terminator Salvation
Directed by McG1h 55m2009
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.
Our read: Terminator Salvation (2009) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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