Terminator Salvation Page #4

Synopsis: In 2003, in the Longview State Correctional Facility, the criminal Marcus Wright is on death row, and is convinced by the cancerous Dr. Serena Kogan to donate his body to her research and he accepts. In 2018, after an unsuccessful attack to a Skynet facility, only John Connor survives, but he discovers that Skynet is developing the powerful new model T-800. Out of the blue, Marcus appears naked and with amnesia in the location. Marcus befriends the teenager Kyle Reese and the girl Star who help him to survive the lethal machines and they travel together in a Jeep. Meanwhile the resistance discovers a signal that might turn-off the machines and John offers to test it. When Kyle is captured by a machine and brought to the Skynet headquarters, Marcus decides to help the youngster and heads to Skynet; on the way, he saves Blair Williams who suggests to him that he should meet John Connor first. But Marcus steps on a mine and is submitted to surgery, when a secret about his origins is discl
Director(s): McG
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
PG-13
Year:
2009
115 min
$125,286,889
Website
1,453 Views


and I see that thing

beating a mile a minute.

Kyle Reese...

He's in Skynet.

You do that, he's dead.

I can get you in.

How?

Look at me.

That's why

I don't trust you.

I'm your only hope

you have.

I need to find

who did this to me.

So do you.

Make your choice.

You kept being...

You tell me

where I can find Kyle Reese.

- Yeah?

- I will.

Contact me on that.

Let me know

he's still alive.

What are you?

I don't know.

Hey,

he's over here.

Where is he heading?

You alright?

Any sign of him?

He's gone.

What'd you do?

I saw a man,

not a machine.

How's your leg?

I'll live.

Let me go!

Connor.

Command for you.

This is Connor.

Connor,

are your men ready?

Negative.

Nobody is ready.

We are not,

you are not.

We must abort the attack.

The game has changed.

What are you talking about?

All our elements

are past the release point.

They are in

assault position.

Then delay the attack.

At least, delay the attack.

I have a chance

to infiltrate Skynet

and rescue

those prisoners.

Give me

that opportunity.

No, absolutely not.

This is not the time

for a rescue mission.

What you ask for,

will undermine the whole operation.

Skynet has Kyle Reese.

And that is his fate.

No, it's our fate.

I have to save him.

He is the key.

The key to the future,

to the past.

Without him,

we lose everything.

No!

You stay the course!

If we stay the course,

we are dead!

We are all dead!

As of this moment,

soldier,

you are relieved

to your command.

You are no longer

a part of this Resistance.

I didn't catch

that last statement.

Neither did I.

This is John Connor.

If you're listening

to this,

you are

the Resistance.

Listen carefully.

If we attack tonight,

our humanity is lost.

Command wants us

to fight like machines,

they want us to make

cold, calculated decisions.

But we are not

machines.

And if we behave like them,

then what is the point...

in winning?

Command is going to ask you

to attack Skynet.

I am asking you

not to.

If even one bomb

drops on Skynet before sunrise,

our future will be lost.

So, please.

Stand down.

Give me the time

to protect our future,

that all of us,

are fighting for.

This is

John Connor.

What should I tell your men

when they find out you're gone?

I'll be back.

[Song:
You Could Be Mine

Band:
Guns N' Roses]

Skynet Perimeter

[North Gate]

Perimeter Breach

Analyzing

Marcus Wright

Access Allowed

I'm coming for you.

Come on, Marcus.

Marcus Wright

Identified

Verification Pending

Sync Complete

North Gun Turret

Disarmed

Cell 46

Kyle Reese

Cell 46 Kyle Reese

Sending Location

Okay.

Murderer Donates Body To Science

Marcus Wright To Donate

Body After Execution

Serena Kogan Succumbs To Cancer

Science World Bids Farewell To Kogan

CyberDyne Systems Purchased

By U.S.A.F.

Skynet:
Online

Override

Signal broadcasted

with full thrift, sir.

Good.

Commence

bombing of Skynet.

We have a green light

for the attack.

This is Bakersfield.

That's a no-go

on your last. Out.

Targeted

Standing down.

This is Reno.

Negative on your last.

Eugene, Reno, Bakersfield,

they're all standing down.

They will not attack.

Unless Connor gives the order.

Cell Secured

Locks Released

Kyle Reese?

No!

Get to your transport!

Go!

Is Kyle Reese here?

Welcome home, Marcus.

We knew you'd be back.

After all,

it was programmed in you.

Oh, and you executed

that programming beautifully.

What am I?

You are

an infiltration prototype.

The only

one of your kind.

We resurrected you.

Advanced CyberDyne's work...

amended it.

You're dead.

Calculations confirmed

the serene code

on this face

isn't easiest for you to process.

It can be others

if you wish.

Marcus...

What else could you be...

if not machine?

A man.

The human condition

no longer applies to you.

Accept what you

already know...

That you were made

to serve a purpose.

To achieve what no another machine

has achieved before.

To infiltrate,

find a target,

and then bring that target

back home to us.

We've been at war since before

either of us even existed.

You tried killing my mother,

Sarah Connor.

You kill me...

You tell me

where I can find Kyle Reese.

Yeah, I will.

Kyle Reese!

Kyle Reese!

Move! Move!

Kyle Reese!

Get to your transport.

Kyle Reese!

You, move!

In times of desperation,

people will believe

what they want to believe.

And so, we gave them

what they wanted to believe.

A trick,

in the form of a signal,

the Resistance thought

would win the war.

And they were right,

it will end this war.

Except that it is the Resistance

that will be terminated,

not Skynet.

Get the attack to

Skynet's Central back online.

I want our aircraft in the sky,

immediately!

Sir, sir, we got a bogey

with a very large radar signature

closing in

on our position.

The signal?

Weapon Lock

Incoming

We have destroyed

ourselves.

Skynet tracked

our signal.

We led them

straight to us.

Our best machines have failed,

time and again,

to complete the mission.

Something was missing.

We had to think,

radically.

And so we made you.

We created the perfect

infiltration machine.

You, Marcus.

You did what Skynet

has failed to do for so many years.

You killed John Connor.

Kyle!

Hey!

Don't fight, Marcus.

Remember

what you are.

I know what I am.

I'm better this way.

You will not be given

a second chance.

You cannot save

John Connor.

Watch me.

We got a message

from Connor.

He's in Skynet.

Needs air support.

Let's go!

Scram for the aircraft.

Stop!

Stop, no!

Die! Die!

Die! Go back!

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

What's your name?

Kyle Reese.

Stick with me.

Back!

Get back!

Come on, Star,

move!

Move!

T-800s.

There's so

many of them.

Be careful!

- What are these?

- Fuel cells.

Life source

for the T-800.

Nuclear.

Enough

to level this place.

Cover us.

You ready?

Run!

Come on, come on!

Let's go!

Come here!

- Come on!

- Come on!

We got to get

to the transport!

Where are you going?

- I gotta end this.

- No, no!

I'm not gonna

leave you!

- You didn't.

- Who are you?

John Connor!

Primary Target:

John Connor

Vulnerability

Terminated

Error

Location:
Unknown

- Hang back now!

- Hey!

Hey, John Connor's

in there.

Where?

- You show me there.

- Hey, hey!

What?

John Connor's

in there.

Come with me!

Connor!

I need help!

Help!

Connor, it's Kyle!

Help!

You son of a b*tch!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Let's get

out of here.

John...

We can't make it

back to base.

Center's down

and they never say so.

Medevac, urgent.

Call the surgical team.

We're locked.

It's Connor.

How long?

His heart...

can't take it.

He's going to be okay.

He's going

to be okay, Kate.

Kyle?

Take it...

You earned it.

Kate...

Take mine.

Marcus?

Everybody deserves

a second chance.

This is mine.

What is it

that makes us human?

It's not something

you can program.

You can't put it

into a chip.

It's the strength

of the human heart.

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