The Plot: John Connor (Bale) is joined in his attempt to defeat Skynet and its army of Terminators by Marcus Wright (Worthington), a man who apparently has been rescued from the past, though Connor wonders if instead he's been sent from the future as a foil to his plan. As Connor and Wright push deep into the heart of Skynet, they get closer and closer to learning the secret behind the organization's mission to wipe humankind off the planet.
Terminator Salvation reminds me of Iron Man in that it capitalized on Comic-Con to get fans of the saga off of McG's back and on his side instead. After a spirited presentation in San Diego last year, where the director eloquently described the story's theme of an individual's free will versus their destiny, the haters unfolded their arms and realized that the man up on the stage isn't the same guy who made Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. In all honestly, once Christian Bale signed up to play John Connor, I sensed that TS might wind up being the second best Terminator movie ever. And with Sam Worthington bending the story's mythology a bit more, do you really need a Schwarzenegger cameo here? (No, but I, in narrator mode, give a roar of approval for the presence of Linda Hamilton.) More memorable awesomeness from Comic-Con was Anton Yelchin's quote regarding his ambition for his character, Kyle Reese: To show "how Michael Biehn became so awesome that Linda Hamilton would sleep with him."