Although not entirely new, the latest "Terminator Salvation" trailer has plenty of fresh footage, riveting action sequences, cool tag lines and appropriate background rock music to make anyone excited about its May 21 release.
Most revealing about the trailer is footage that shows that Sam Worthington's Marcus Wright's body is not only made up of replicated human tissue over metal endoskeleton, but that he - it would be more accurate to say "it" - for some reason believes himself to be human and the only hope for the human resistance.
Could Marcus Wright be an all-too-human reconnaissance cyborg that the resistance can turn against SkyNet? If the machine proves himself to be as loyal as Blair Williams (Moon Bloodgood) believes him to be, perhaps he is the one that provides the know-how of how to reprogram Terminators to serve the human resistance.
New cuts of footage also show John Connor (Christian Bale) attempting to contact via a radio the members of the human resistance presumably from the Crystal Peak military complex moviegoers last saw him in toward the end of 2003's "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."
John Connor likely has his own battalion, but is looking for new recruits or to join forces with Michael Ironside's General Ashdown's unit. One has to wonder if John Connor saying "If we stay the course, we are all dead!" refers to a difference in the battle strategies of both leaders.
More of Kate Connor (Bryce Dallas Howard) is shown in her role as a veterinarian-turned-battle-physician, discovering that Marcus Wright is more than just a run-of-the-mill human and something she and John have never before seen.
This indicates that his cyborg physiology is either entirely different from known T-600 and T-800 models or something else entirely.
A bulk of the trailer's footage reveals nothing new so much as it shows new footage of what has already been seen such as a Moto Terminator motorcycle performing an awesome evasive maneuver, T-600 Terminator models being worked on by someone in some unknown production line and one on the floor with his head having been blown open, a clearer look at The Harvester, more shots of HK-aerial planes and hydrobots, many humans standing around in cattle-like enclosures.
Not to mention the human resistance combating a combination of SkyNet's metal cronies on a bridge that apparently survived Judgement Day in tact, but might not be left standing by the end of this 130-minute-long film.
Has humanity begun rebuilding society or does the war take place somewhere outside of the immediate blast radius of the nuclear war?
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