His famous line 'I'll be back' is uttered by one John Connor or another, and I hope it draws more chuckles than it did at the screening I attended. Schwarzenegger, indeed, reappears in this fourth film, thanks to a body double and a special-effects face, which makes him, I think, a cyborg of a cyborg. In it, Edward Furlong was infinitely more human as John Connor than ' Terminator 2: Judgment Day' (1991) was a fairly terrific movie, set in the (then) future, to prevent the nuclear holocaust of 1997.

The first 'Terminator' movie I regret (I suppose) I did not see. But in regard to the answers to my questions: You know what? I don't care. Believe me, I would have enjoyed traveling forward through time for two hours, starting just before I saw the movie. They also will charge me with not seeing the movie before I reviewed it. I know with a certainty approaching dread that all of my questions will be explained to me in long detailed messages from 'Terminator' experts. Marcus is a convicted murderer from the past, awakened from cryogenic sleep.

That's Marcus Wright ( Sam Worthington), the guy from the past, who looks so much like Connor that maybe he only thinks he's Wright. Connor, who is not even human, vows to save them. Ashdown ( Michael Ironside), who wants to destroy Skynet and all of its human POWs. The resistance is run from a submarine commanded by Gen. No towns, no houses, no food, no farms, no nothing. There is nothing visible in this world but a barren wasteland. And listen, Skynet buddies, what Bale thought about that cameraman is only the tip of the iceberg compared to what he thinks about you. In fact, one metal man is covered in molten ore and then flash-frozen, and keeps on tickin'. They also shoot at each other, to little effect. How do these antagonists fight? Why, with their fists, of course, which remains a wonderfully cinematic device. However, it has many fights between a humanoid cyborg and robotic Skynet men made of steel. Raises them, and then leaves them levitating. Christian Bale plays the role of Connor, in a movie that raises many questions about the lines between man and machine.

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