【英语时差8,16】没有阿诺的「魔鬼终结者」（在线收听）

Ex-music-video maker and "Charlie's Angels" director McG, ignoring the [dict]constraint[/dict]s of time and space, and the [dict]essential[/dict] insanity of the original trilogy, approaches "Terminator Salvation" far more seriously than the tone of previous installments. But he doesn't skimp 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 lieutenant to Gen. Ashdown (Michael Ironside). The [dict]wild card[/dict] in all this is Marcus (Sam Worthington), a death row inmate 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 portrays 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 relatively 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 warfare by remote control. Anything resembling real life in "T4" is no doubt a total