Ultimately the only really meaningful choice you’ll ever have to make in Terminator: Resistance, is whether you want to keep brainlessly blasting your way through to its completion, or hop in your car, drive back to the store and try and exchange it for something better. But the sum total of these choices feels fairly inconsequential, determining which ending you’ll arrive at upon the story’s completion (assembled into an unsatisfying sequence of static storyboard images), as well as which female NPC you’ll have hilariously awkward first-person sex with. Choices may be small, such as deciding between leaving a medikit for an NPC or selfishly taking it for yourself, or large, such as whether you want to help a young woman and her little brother abscond from the underground shelter that acts as a hub in between levels, or convince them to stay. Terminator: Resistance wisely ignores the events of every film subsequent to Terminator 2: Judgement Day.Terminator: Resistance takes the franchise's obsession with making your own fate to heart, offering a healthy amount of player choice along the way. Its plot chronicles the future-set events that lead up to Kyle Reese and the terminator Model 101’s arrival in 1984, and could well have served as a satisfying, Rogue One-esque bit of back story for fans were it not for the truly terrible dialogue and stilted voice acting that delivers so much of it. Set in 2028 Los Angeles, Terminator: Resistance casts the player as Jacob Rivers, a soldier in John Connor’s army who must band together with other human resistance members to stave off the “annihilation line” of terminators systematically wiping out all life on the planet. At '12', the BBFC Guidelines state that in a sexual context nudity must be 'brief and discreet' and this sequence in TERMINATOR SALVATION falls within those limits.Much like the latest film, Terminator: Dark Fate, Terminator: Resistance wisely ignores the events of every film subsequent to Terminator 2: Judgement Day. This is only seen from considerable distance and there is no clear or sustained nudity present within a sexual context. The extended version of the film also contains a scene featuring brief sexualised nudity as we see a woman remove her top, revealing one of her breasts. 'Mature themes' and 'sustained moderate threat and menace' are allowed at '12' in the Guidelines and these are all elements that contributed to placing TERMINATOR SALVATION at '12'. There is none of the darker, sadistic, elements that occasionally take such works to the higher category. The film as a whole does have an unrelenting intensity which is a well established feature of fantasy films at the '12' level but the tone is comparatively light and plays very much to audience expectations for the genre. Given this approach to the depiction of violence the film is contained at '12' under the terms of the Guidelines for violence at that level. For the most part the injuries are impressionistic and the fantasy setting is always well to the fore. There is some injury detail seen, to the Connor character in particular, but these sequences do not dwell on detail and do not contain any emphasis on injuries or blood. Most of the damage and injury is caused to the robotic characters while the human characters generally emerge unscathed. This sets the tone for much of the violence in the film. There are some spectacular battle sequences with heavy explosions and gunfire which include sight of many robots being destroyed, including a close-up shot of a robotic head being crushed by a helicopter. The setting of the narrative in this film is an all-out war between the human resistance movement and Skynet with its army of Terminators. It has been passed '12' for scenes of moderate violence and intense action. TERMINATOR SALVATION is the fourth instalment in the TERMINATOR franchise and sees a grown-up John Connor leading the human resistance movement.
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