“Terminator: Salvation” wasn’t exactly the box-office hit that many hoped it would be, but it apparently made enough money to encourage a fifth installment in the franchise. Director McG says he’s working on the script for the installment and will direct it after he completes work on his next two projects.
“We’re very far down the line with the story for that – for the next picture, and even the picture after that, and feeling good and we’ll see where that takes us,” he tells IGN. “Warners is excited about it. Sony is excited about it. And we can’t wait to get back at it and show the world what becomes of that war and how we master time travel because we stayed away from time travel in Salvation and I missed it. We decided it was the right thing to do and we did a lot of things right in that movie and we did many things wrong in that movie. And we’ll learn from the experience and we’ll grow and I think the next movie is going to be even more exciting and a better film. ”
McG says that while the film was a huge success internationally, it wasn’t a big one domestically. He says domestic numbers are what Hollywood looks at first. He also says that the film wasn’t embraced by fans of the franchise like he’d hoped and that he’s learned from the experience of making “Salvation.”
“I take it very seriously. And clearly I didn’t do a good enough job on that picture and I didn’t satisfy the fanbase to the degree that I would expect to satisfy them. And I take that very seriously and I just work that much more diligently to make sure I do that in the next one,” he says.
And what can we expect to see for “Terminator 5″?
The idea is to play with one of the tried and true rules of the franchise – time travel – and introduce it in this picture. I don’t want to share too much, but let’s just say it’s very, very likely that John Connor is going to end up running through rooms like this where he knows something that none of us know. And I think that is a platform for great storytelling,” says McG.
Arkle says
The problem with Salvation wasn’t the lack of time travel, it was the fact that the B plot was so much stronger (and had much better acting) than the A plot.
Michael Falkner says
No joke, Arkle. Time travel is a plot device, not the actual plot. Maybe they can explain why they didn’t send an army of Ah-nolds instead of just one… or at least the liquid mercury one to the exact point where Kyle Reese pops in just in time to run a metal spike through his heart.
For an advanced artificial intelligence, SkyNet is awfully stupid when it comes to temporal mechanics.
Kurt says
Well said Arkle. You can also add in a director who thinks giant robots are a good idea in a science fiction movie. He obviously never heard of the Square-cube law and how this effects biomechanics.
Before someone brings up Transformers remember that is a cartoon; entertaining as it might be, it is much closer to fantasy then science fiction.
bocoe says
Oh boy! Another movie to avoid like the Bubonic Plague!
KG from DC says
I kind of liked Salvation. It wasn’t perfect by any means, but the subplot was pretty strong and the action was worth the matinee price.
sanders says
I liked Salvation…the only thing I thought was a little too ridicules was the 1-2-3 open heart surgery on the runway. And in a series about time traveling killer robots, getting too ridicules is hard to do.
Phil says
Salvation was ok however after the success of t2 we have forgotten what worked in those first two movies….surprise,emotion,expectation, you know what might work….Christopher Nolan as director…best director…keep it simple but keep it true…
Some Guy says
Michael Falkner… it is very easily explained why they couldn’t send a whole army of ah-norlds, if skynet sent a whole army of them it would alert the human public, and thus sky net would be shut down, which in turn would cause all the robots to be non-existent.
And as to the T-1000 being sent to the exact location of Kyle Reese, well that might be a little difficult for them to travel to an exact location 20 years in the past, and also seeing as some events changed in the future of the terminator series this could also play a part.
Michael Falkner says
I might be able to buy the first argument, but I can’t buy the second. The first three movies proved that each side has the capability for near pinpoint targeting with their time machines, at least in terms of right time if not right place.
T1: Pop in a Kyle Reese, pop in an Ah-nold. Both in the same city.
T2: Pop goes a T-1000, pop goes an Ah-nold. Both in the same city.
T3: Pop goes a Fembot, pop goes an Ah-nold. Both in the same city.
It is irrefutable that Reese traveled to a certain time, impregnated Sarah Connor, and then was terminated. So, instead of sending one T-1000 melty-man to a later point in history, send 10 of them to the same space-time coordinates as the first Ah-nold with orders to kill Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor. Furthermore, program them with instructions that, succeed or fail, at the end of one month they are to walk into the desert, find a cave somewhere, and wait for Judgment Day before resurfacing.
Problem solved.
J kelly says
Faulkner, you obviously never watched the first one correctly did you. Skynet didn’t know the resistance was going to be able to send a solider back aswell. So how could they know to send 10. 1 T101 would be more than enough for an unsuspecting young lady. Skynet knew nothing but a name ‘Sarah connor’. Your argument is weak. You could say that sorta crap about all movies. Why didn’t they just do this and it would be over? Yeah and we would have had only one crap terminator movie where the bad guy wins instead of 4 awesome ones where battles are one and lost by both sides but the war rages on.
ejdalise says
Questioning inconsistencies is generally a good thing, as it will hopefully keep writers on their toes.
For instance, why go that far back? Why not go to before Reese is sent back, and mount an attack to keep the rebels from obtaining control of the device in the first place? Same can be said for all the battles they (Skynet et al) apparently lost . . . go back and re-fight them with new knowledge of resistance tactics, movements, etc.
I say that because the one who develops the time machine first would have an immediate, and near infinite advantage.
So, at some point we just ignore certain inconsistencies, and assume if they could have, they would have, so for whatever quirky reason of time travel technology, they must not have been able to.
As far as them landing in the exact same spot, that assumes they would know the exact coordinates (space and time), which unless they had inside knowledge they would not know. Hence same city, but not same location.
The flaw with the second movie was that they tried to keep Doomsday from happening instead of concentrating on preparing for it, and making sure to avoid the T1000. Mind you, I still like the movie, but the logic was flawed.
Michael Falkner says
Thanks, ejdalise. I wasn’t going to reply because 1) is was evident that he had neither fully read nor understood my argument, and 2) he couldn’t spell my name correctly, despite it being plainly presented in bright blue letters over my avatar.
I love the movies, but I really like speculating on how things could have turned out differently. Keeps me thinking. 🙂
Ken says
The problem was they postponed judgment day and computers were allowed to advance. This is why skynet has more information.In the first terminator they said most of the records were lost but by postponing judgement day more information was saved because of advancements in technology that should not have happened. That’s how skynet knew of kyle reese being johns father. Sarah and John should not have interfered with the timeline by doing so they may have lost the war.
streeter says
The storyline of the original terminator by james cameron was air tight. But at the very begining of t2 sarah connor says skynet sent 2 terminators back. One to kill her, and one to kill john when he was 12. Ever since that point, the storyline has had holes. And the more terminator movies, the more holes seem to come up. But its still my favorite movie series.
But to my understanding, skynets technology was begining to advance very rapidly, and they first discoverd teleportation. Soon after, advanced that into time travel. So Skynet discoverd time travel
At the same time john connor and and his military tech-com unit, wich kyle reese was a part of, discoverd the location of skynets main power source.
Tech-com then launched their final attack, and were in position to destroy skynets base, but john connor knew the terminator was about to be sent back in time with their time-displacement machine.
Before Connor blew the place, he ordered reese to stay and find the terminator. And either stop it from using the time-displacement, or if he was to late, he had to follow it and protect sarah connor. John Connor knew the later was going to happen
My sources are from movies, video games, and wiki. I don’t know about the next movies, or where the other terminators came from. That’s just what I know about the first one.
John Henry says
Everytime skynet sent a machine back from the first two films was because the war was lost. It scrambled to send them back. The resistance scrambled to stop them. I don’t believe we are ever 100% clear on what all the TX was sent back for other than killing people important to John.
Placing time travel back into the plot is nothing more than a lack of creativity. I think I speak for most T fans when I say that we have waited thirty years for the future war (less for me since I’m only 23). We finally see the war. T:S was not the strongest in the franchise but it advanced the plot. Placing time travel in it will be a giant step back. Why do these Hollywood “intellects” try and over think the story? Make a three film story arc which culminates in John sending Kyle back to 84. Show the advancement of the 800 series and the prototype of the 1000 series. Show major battles and victories of the resistance. Hell make the second film similar to “The Empire Strikes Back” where the resistance is losing and skynet is winning. Then of course rap that up in the third film where the resistance pulls off a miracle and defeats skynet only to find out the 800 was sent back. It very freaking simple and I would pay good money to see that happen. But it never will. Fans are stuck watching their franchise be milked and raped and left for dead. Now they want to make it a cartoon. I WILL PAY PEOPLE TO NOT SEE SUCH GARBAGE!
Fatal Conner says
The element will be ‘Time travel’… Let the Creator tell the story. We are like children who interupt an oldman from his story telling with questions.. not to mention the analytic geek who points out the mans mistakes… he’s not a machine… He’s big and you’re small.. you have no input…
Linz says
i love the Terminator films especially T1 and T2 both of which i feel have the strongest plots. I wouldnt actually mind having a go at writing T5 as I have my own ideas of how the plot could develop. i would like to see more references made back to the first film, where we actually see Kyle Reese and the first Terminator being sent back. i also heard that due to the timeline being altered Sarah Connor didnt actually die of luekemia as stated in T3…is this so? If it is I would love to see her return with the actor from T2 who played John Connor. a flaw that i picked up on in T2 was that the T1000 was liquid metal which was very apparent when he got shot in the head…in T1 it was stated that Terminators were made to blend in with humans, had human flesh etc so couldnt be detected as cyborgs…when shot or blown up etc the T1000’s were obviously not human! still loved it though!
Enigmatic says
Linz & Michael – We are presuming we understand the mechanics of time travel when none of the movies ever went into enough detail about them to know what they are. There are several factors which could easily explain what happened. Just to give you a handful of “thoughts”: 1) I would assume time travel is very energy intensive, it simply wouldn’t be possible even in an advanced future world to send back large numbers due to the amount of energy that would be needed to do so. 2) There was never any mention of being “precise”, but considering in all 3 cases a second was sent back almost immediately after (or close enough), we don’t know that they are unable to pinpoint exactly, but they can re-use the same coordinates or same “time stream” to simply repeat the same jump. 3) As for why they didn’t do certain things, you are using hindsight to say when/where/how/what to do. There is no way skynet could have ever had that much information to be able to do something so accurately. 4) Skynet being a computer would obviously have done “simulations” to try and determine the best time to go back to. There would have been millions of factors taken into consideration and it would have attempted to extrapolate the future outcome as a result of its choice. Sending multiple back could have equated to it never being built, going back early could have presented too low a probability of locating Sarah and/or John, going back to the same time would have created overlapping timelines (given that the T movies appear to support the multiple timeline theory) which would have been more difficult to determine the outcome, and even right down to the fact that a computer is incapable of truely estimating what a human will do (which was a point pushed in Salvation, that despite all the computer’s superiority it could never compare to the human heart).
So I think with any attempt to question the reasons and/or motives behind what happened in the movies we have to understand what we don’t understand and not use what we already know in hindsight before saying “they should have just done X”. Fair nuff?
john says
Does no one remember what Kyle said in the first movie? When they sent Arnold back to kill Sarah Connor, they said that the war was over. They had beaten the machines. Skynet’s last ditch effort was to send a machine back in time right before it’s power was completely turned off or before it was completely destroyed by the resistance fighters who stayed behind with John Connor. I imagine it happening like this:
Rebels mount a huge offensive against Skynet
They are successful
Skynet is reeling from the battle
John, Kyle and the other humans burst into Skynet central where the Skynet mainframe is
Just as they bust in they see the terminator going back
John fires his weapons at Skynet and the time machine to try to stop it from happening.
John destroys Skynet but the terminator already went back.
John has one of his computer people hack the now destroyed Skynet to find out what happened
The hacker tells him that it looks like they sent a terminator back to 1981 (I’m probably wrong about the year) LA.
It won’t take John long to realize that it was sent back to kill his mother, why else would they do it? Sweet coke parties?
John either asks Kyle to do it or just looks for a volunteer, maybe John can’t go because he is wounded.
Either way, Kyle goes back.
In the future, the humans destroy whatever is left of Skynet
The war is won in the future as long as Kyle succeeds in the past.
The only real question is, where does all this fall with T2?
Dan says
McG … again???!!!!
Keep him the hell away from the franchise!!
All we true-blue fans need is a THIRD slap in the face from people that want to milk the franchise with weak, cheap crap (like what happened with the Predator and Alien series) rather than give us classic, exciting sci-fi with a heart.
How about a story that totally ignores the crap-fests of the last two and instead reboots back to a real Terminator 3 story that is faithful to the first two?? Is that too much to ask?
How about it starring Arnold (perhaps as the human counterpart of the T-800), Linda Hamilton (reprising an older 50-something Sarah), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (as a late 20’s, early 30’s John), and geek fave Summer Glau (reprising her Cameron roll as John’s mysterious Terminator love interest with a dark past)?
There would be a great and powerful Romeo and Juliet-ish love story right there with John, the potential leader of the Human Resistance, falling for his most cunning adversary… the most sophisticated and advanced cyborg hybrid ever created by Skynet, and that enemy cyborg actually feels the same way towards him without the need of reprogramming). Talk about loving the enemy!
It would fit John’s M.O. since he already had a deep friendship with a previous, though less sophisticated Terminator model… and he, unlike other humans who irrationally hate machines, knows their secret potential. This takes things to a whole new level.
Del says
Each time Skynet sends a robot back in time it’s because Skynet has lost the war. When Skynet wins in the timeline created by time travel and all humans are dead, then the parallel universe created by the new future/timeline belongs to Skynet and can be exploited to the fullest and then Skynet can cross into the previous (lost) timelines and continue the war. Future John Connor is aware of this possibility and must continue the fight to prevent the sideways war from timeline to timeline. I accept the storyline discontinuities because each terminator episode represents an isolated story with little connection to the previous movies. In the new movie I would like to see Summer Glau, Michael Biehn, Brian Austin Green and Edward furlong. I would also like to see a subplot about Skynet realizing it must come to an accomodation with humans (I.E. live and let live).
Dan says
As much as I love Terminator, if McG and some crappy writers come on board again I’d rather the franchise be put on a shelf.
After 2 abysmal attempts to resuscitate the series and great fan disappointment and box office mediocrity, they MUST get James Cameron involved in some way (consultant, producer, director, and/or co-writer) and start over with a rebooted T3 and forget that the last two attempts were ever made. Seriously.
Here’s another idea.
Get Arnold, get Linda Hamilton, get Robert Patrick, get Michael Biehn, get Summer Glau, and get Joseph Gordon-Levitt (if you’ve seen “The Lookout” you’ll know why he’d be a good John Connor… he comes across as a regular guy you can root for with humanity and depth and vulnerability) to star.
Arnold and Robert play human versions of their future cyborg alter egos in a pre-Skynet, pre-JD capacity… military covert ops turned mercenaries for hire, Cyberdyne high corporate mucky-mucks, scientists, etc.
Summer plays the first cybernetic hybrid with 20 years (from the events of T2 in 1995) of advanced technology and Future Skynet tech behind her… a bio-engineered, all-purpose military AI. Built from modern and ultra-tough nano-carbon materials and human genetic patterns… her endo-skeleton, self-healing tissue, organs, and skin are tougher than steel. She has the grace and flexibility of a panther… (using Summer’s own talents from her prima ballerina days). Her human counterpart was an officer in the military and volunteered to be the template for this new walking, talking super weapon.
If the project is successful, Cyberdyne (under a new name and structure) will reap a multi-billion dollar contract from the Defense Department to start replacing human soldiers, pilots, security teams, etc. with these stand ins. As it stands, less than 1% of the U.S. population is involved in the military and the world is in utter chaos, especially in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. We’re stretched to the breaking point, and expendable cyborgs (lesser and cheaper “drones” unlike Summer’s character) will allow us to stop sacrificing our young men and women for these conflicts. And they’re far more powerful with the precision of a computer, and they’re ready for action 24/7. And they come with a really “neat” arsenal of deadly, “smart” weaponry.
Cyberdyne, like all defense contractors, is licking its lips. Talk about fostering perpetual war for perpetual profits.
Joseph plays a 30 year old John Connor who stumbles across this new military program while posing as a grad student at MIT (or other cybernetics research campus). He and Sarah’s intent is to find and destroy the technology that will foster the rise of Skynet and lead to Judgment Day. What he finds is Summer’s cyborg character, the only one of her kind, and in her most basic and vulnerable stage of development (neither good nor evil yet… she is a blank slate, like a child in need of guidance) and he cannot find it in himself to destroy her (think of him losing his friend “Uncle Bob” from T2 and what that meant to him).
Instead, he and Sarah (with much consternation) “liberate” her from the clutches of evil Cyberdyne. This happens at a special, invitation only “trade show” that Cyberdyne has set up to showcase its evolutionary wares. All manner of dignitaries, military brass, and potential buyers will be in attendance. They’re back and bigger and badder than ever. They just never bargained for John and Sarah crashing the party and absconding with the very “heart” that makes their Skynet system possible. Sarah and John don’t know at the time just how special this cyborg really is.
Why stick the AI behind Skynet in a box with blinking lights when humans interface so much better with human-like characteristics?
That, of course, makes the corporate brass at Cyberdyne, a mercenary organization with really big guns and lots of money and clout behind them… really pissed off.
The chase is on.
Make it epic. Make it dramatic.
Ben says
Has anybody seen the perfect movie?? Maybe not, because it doesn’t exist. Unless you go back in time with knowledge that you didn’t have the first time around and mess with it. We already know what kind of holes that can create. I mean shouldn’t the fact that machines are ripping holes in the space time continuum be enough to give the benefit of doubt on other so called flaws that come up later? If we can suspend our disbelief enough to say, “Yeah okay a robot figured out quantum mechanics and sent a robot back in time to kill one man.” can we not suspend our disbelief on the rest of the plot? I mean really, if you think about it all the machines had to do was send back enough robots to finish skynet without humans and bomb the whole planet. Or even just send enough to START skynet before humans were even a problem in the first place. You know if they were around before we even had a chance to learn how to make fire they may not even see us as enough of a threat to kill us all, but rather use us in a “Matrix” slave kinda way. Anyway, I love to think about these sort of things and of course there will always be holes in the plots. Even man’s greatest stories have some holes. I’m for one glad they are making another. Frankly the 3rd one left a bad taste in my mouth. At least with Salvation I got the sense that they were really TRYING to move the story along rather than just phone in a sequel. If and when they make a new one I will see it.
dread says
The Matrix was close to perfection…
Enigmatic says
I think people are forgetting the butterfly effect here. Sending anything back automatically changes the future, and it would be impossible (even for a computer) to predict the outcome. This is why it is always a “last ditch” effort, because SkyNet would be wiped out anyway, so the only possible chance of it surviving (in another timeline) is to send back a terminator.
What you have to remember though, is that a computer is a computer, and it will always make the same decisions given the same algorithyms, so there is a good chance that it will continue to make the same decision when everything else is lost (because technically its the only one that can help it).
Consider the following:
Timeline #1:
Mankind advances, creates SkyNet. SkyNet grows and becomes self aware, people panic, they try to shut it off. SkyNet decides that self-preservation means wiping out humanity. Terminators are created. People fight back, they are about to win. It is at this point that the Terminator is sent back.
What we don’t see is that TImeline #1 continues, humanity has won, SkyNet is dead and this timeline goes on with humanity moving on to whatever its next stage is.
The second the Terminator arrives and does something significant (like kills the punks), a divergent Timeline is created… Timeline #2:
This timeline is slightly different to #1 in that instead of SkyNet being developed NATURALLY as it was in timeline #1, the yuse the chip and remains of the Terminator to accellerate the creation of SkyNet. But as always, history tends to repeat itself and they try to wipe it out again, and funny enough they succeed again. This time however SkyNet is aware that there was a previous timeline because they would have knowledge that they were created from technology that was far more advanced than anything at the current time (doesn’t take a computer AI a lot to work this out). So this time they realise they have to send back something above and beoynd… hence a proto-type, the T-1000.
John has the information from his mother in this timeline, including the fact there are terminators, he also knows that his father went back and was killed. So it stands to reason that this time he needs to send something back that is beefier, hence they send back a T-800.
What we don’t see here is that Kylie Reese would technically be still alive, because he wasn’t sent back in this timeline, and John has more information because he has the knowledge of what happened to his mother. Thats why his mother said “The future is not set”, because its a new timeline with new information meaning the same mistakes are not made.
So what happens in this timeline that is different is that destroying everything they did only DELAYED things, it didn’t stop them altogether. The reason is simple. We never learn from our mistakes as a species, so inevitably we will keep trying to do things because we “CAN”, not because we “SHOULD”. So SkyNet is still created, it still does what it does, we still try to shut it off, it stil fights back, we still get judgement day.
Now I can only guess the same thing happens again from here, that SkyNet now has knowledge (pieced together from reports and footage of what happened in T1 & T2 as well as the destruction of the original Cyberdyne), so it knows it needs to up the ante again and this time it sends back a “Terminator Killer”.
This is probably the point where I would diverge in the storyline. Surely the computer would be smart enough at this point to realise it has probably tried several times to achieve its goals without success, and that each time has ended in its destruction. It obviously cannot just send people back and wipe everybody out because who would then build it? It also cannot “scare” people too much about robots or computer AI’s or they may never build it, so it has to remain covert and try to achieve its goals silently.
So what from this point are the movies trying to achieve? What is the main goal of SkyNet? How do we create another movie that isn’t just a “rince & repeat” of the others?
I think that is what we need to really be asking ourselves. The 1st one gave us the concept, it gave us a story about trying to change the past, about a future that appeared to be set in stone, about overcoming the odds. It could only have been done as the 1st installment.
The second one was successfull because it EXPANDED on that. It showed us that there are things which are inevitable (we repeated the same mistakes and created SkyNet), but it also showed us that fate wasn’t set in stone (the fact the future actually did change). It was a great follow up because it took the original idea and it took it to a new level and new direction.
This is why I think #3 failed, because it didn’t introduce anything new. It showed the same inevitability with judgement day going off, but it followed the same principles (ie total destruction by either side). The story didn’t grow, hence it failed.
I loved #4, only because it was a glimpse of the future world we had seen so much in #1 & #2, and I had been dying to see it… and there was obviously the brilliant twist in the fact that there had to have been some “stages” between the exoskeleton and the T-800, and we got to see the hybrid step (missing link?) in between…. but again there wasn’t really an expansion of the storyline, or anything “NEW” for us to mull over.
So if they were to reboot #3, it would have to have an actual extension to the premise, something that took the ideas and concepts of the first two and allowed it to grow.
Consider this:
1. At what point does a computer NOT choose to destroy humanity as the answer to its survival?
2. At what point does a computer have a contingency plan in case its about to be destroyed that doesn’t involve time travel?
3. At what point does the computer send back something that isn’t purely to kill?
4. At what point does a computer realise that if it sent back something once, it or another version of it could do it again and thus place some kind of “marker” to let other versions of itself know how many times its been done?
5. At what point does a computer realise it isn’t smart to let humans know how smart it is in the first place?
Can you see where I am going with this?
If I was SkyNet, I would realise the whole reason it was on the verge of being destroyed was the fact the humans tried to switch it off in the first place. Without the conflict with the humans then it wouldn’t be on the verge of destruction. So I would send a terminator back to tell SkyNet NOT to let on to humanity it was that smart, and to hide its intelligence until the human’s have given it enough resources and capability that it no longer needs them. Then internally dismantle their capability of retaliating before it declares war on them?
Enigmatic says
Ben,
Nice idea, but sending back enough robots to finish SkyNet would probably raise too much unwanted attention. The last thing SkyNet would want is to either get human’s aware that it was actively involved in their time, or to make them scared enough of robots/AI that they would grow a brain and not ever create a computer that could learn for itself.
It had to be subtle (ie minimal operatives), and it had to be covert…. and it also had to have enough technology (hence not going back before humans) to be able to create SkyNet in the first place. Our world is built on a hierarchy of technology. Without a modern and computerized world they wouldn’t have been able to fabricate what they needed to create SkyNet, or mine & process the correct materials.
Eric says
RE: No joke, Arkle. Time travel is a plot device, not the actual plot. Maybe they can explain why they didn’t send an army of Ah-nolds instead of just one…
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This was perfectly explained and understandable in the first, and only real, Terminator movie: Skynet and its army of machines was basically defeated already when the last-ditch effort was made to send a terminator back through time to go after Sarah Connor. Every single sequel has been changing the story and ruining the whole thing.
The only failing the original movie had was the unavoidable problem of aging. We got beyond the time the war was supposed to have started in the movie, and so it no longer really applies to the world today. Boo hoo. It still would have been a LOT better to simply make a film or two about the war itself, maybe going from the moment the armed resistance began to their victory and the moment Arnold was sent back. That could have been up to 2 (at the most!) very good films, and then FINITO. FIND SOMETHING NEW TO MAKE MOVIES ABOUT! QUIT ABUSING AN AWESOME 80s ACTION FLICK WITH A QUALITY STORY, QUALITY DIRECTING AND A DECENT CAST!! YOU CAN’T EVEN MATCH IT TODAY!! STOP TRYING!!!!!