【英语时差8,16】没有阿诺的「魔鬼终结者」

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Ex-music-video maker¹ and "Charlie's Angels" director McG, ignoring the [dict]constraint[/dict]s of time and space, and the [dict]essential[/dict] insanity² of the original trilogy, approaches "Terminator Salvation³" far more seriously than the tone of previous installments⁴. But he doesn't skimp⁵ on the scary stuff. McG drops us in 2018, with Skynet's machines well into their campaign against humankind. John Connor (Christian Bale) is at this point an uncooperative lieutenant⁶ to Gen. Ashdown (Michael Ironside). The [dict]wild card[/dict] in all this is Marcus (Sam Worthington), a death row inmate⁷ turned cyborg. The opening scene of the film finds Marcus being visited in his cell by a, cancer-stricken Dr. Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter). Marcus reawakens, post-lethal injection, during the war. Marcus the machine is a far more interesting character than Connor, whom Bale portrays⁸ with a single-minded focus that is less [dict]engaging[/dict] than Marcus and his conflicts. The dark mood of "Terminator Salvation," which is relieved occasionally by the script going completely out to lunch, might have come off as [dict]pretentious[/dict] but instead seems relatively⁹ believable. The action is startling, and it adds to a movie that's as believable as it can be when its subjects are humanity under attack, rebel forces, and warfare¹⁰ by remote control. Anything resembling real life in "T4" is no doubt a total