Just another day in sunny California?

Weirdly, I have never seen "Terminator Salvation" before. Not that it matters - nobody gives a damn about the constantly shifting timelines anyway! Apparently, "Salvation" is the last traditional Terminator film, before the franchise decided to *really* change the internal chronology. As I said, I honestly didn´t notice. 

In 2003, a prisoner on death row is given an offer he (literally) can´t refuse: to donate his corpse to a crazy scientist for cancer research. Unfortunately for "Marcus", his dead body is revived by the intelligent machines after Judgement Day, and turned into a cyborg whose mission is to - you guessed it - kill John Connor, a prominent leader of the Resistance. The machine HQ in San Fransisco also feeds false information to an advanced Resistance submarine in order to trick it into revealing its position. Meanwhile, humans are imprisoned at the Skynet facility in Frisco for unclear purposes. To serve as fodder for new generations of cyborgs? Everything points to a grand defeat of the anti-machine Resistance, until both Connor and Marcus enter the cyborg base in defiance of their respective destinies... 

I admit that "Salvation" was somewhat interesting, perhaps because it didn´t simply repeat all the usual Terminator tropes - well, until the end, when they just had to repeat the usual "final battle between Man and Robot in a futuristic warehouse" kind of thing. They even put Arnold Schwarzenegger´s face on the body of another actor?! A special effect made necessary by the fact that Arnie was serving as governor of California at the time, and hence was unavailable for more extensive movie engagements.

Otherwise, I noted that the scorched earth landscape of post-apocalyptic California looks a lot like the current scorched earth landscape of pre-apocalyptic California, but then, I often get that kind of feeling when watching Hollywood flicks, I mean "Predator II" looks like a on-the-scene documentary from early 1990´s LA... 

Perhaps worth a few hours of your time. Still, "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" remains the best film in this franchise.