Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Series) Heavy Metal (2008) User Reviews

Prepairing to build an army

[Tweekums · 8/10 · 6 February 2010]

For the first time since travelling through time Sarah, John and Cameron learn that Cromartie has survived and even though they only have evidence that his head survived Cameron is sure that he will will be repairing himself, this appears to be confirmed when a shipment of coltran, the alloy used to make terminators, is redirected to Los Angeles. They go down to the docks to take delivery but are surprised when it is picked up by a different terminator and there is enough coltran to make a small army of terminators, not just repair one. Meanwhile agent James Ellison is also on the trail of Cromartie although he doesn't realise that the person he is looking for isn't human, he just thinks he is looking for a killer who has had plastic surgery to make him look like a would-be actor.

The main story was compelling with some good action sequences and a real sense of menace, especially when John is trapped in a bunker with a dormant terminator, this doesn't mean that the secondary storyline about James Ellison's investigations were any less interesting.

Coltan and New Identity

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 22 January 2009]

Cameron shows Sarah and John a picture of the skull of the Terminator Cromartie in the present days (2007) possibly with intact chip; further that a shipment of the alloy Coltan, which is used for constructing the skeleton of the machines, is being transported to the Port of Los Angeles due to an accident in the original destination harbor. She concludes that Cromartie is behind these events, and Sarah decides to move from Los Angeles. However, John, who is having problems to deal with the death of his suicidal schoolmate Jordan Cowan, tells that they should fight while Cromartie is vulnerable. They keep the depot in the harbor under their surveillance and witness an armed group robbing the metal. When John decides to plant a cell phone in the truck to track it, he is trapped in the truck with the criminals that drive to a distant military facility. Meanwhile Cromartie forces a plastic surgeon to operate his face using the identity of the aspirant actor George Laszlo, killing him after the surgery. Agent James Ellison follows his hunch but his superiors do not accept the basis of his investigation.

In this good episode, John is feeling lost after the death of Jordan in the last episode. Sarah still gives a bad treatment to Cameron, and I really do not understand her behavior. The veteran Agent James Ellison shows the importance of experience in his business and his feelings were absolutely right. Cromartie has self-restored and has a new identity. Cameron, as usual, is responsible for the best moments of the show. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Heavy Metal"

Heavy Metal is another pretty compelling episode of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"

[tavm · 7/10 · 10 March 2008]

After a month of writing reviews of movies and/or TV shows relating to Black History Month, this is my first attempt to go back to the current TV season starting with the fourth episode of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles". In this one, John goes off on his own in finding out about these future cyborgs with Sarah and Cameron following close behind. And the FBI agent and his partner come closer in finding out about their own case involving these killers...It took a while but I'm starting to understand what's going on as the series continues finding its own path. Plenty of suspense and some witty lines abound (loved Sarah's "Please shut up." after Cameron thanks her for one of Sarah's sarcastic observations). There's also some cool action from Sarah as she knocks the hell out of one guy and John seems calm here except at the end when his hand is shaking. Probably could have used some more action but next week's preview looks promising. So until next time...

Flashes of brilliance

[ringuette · 9/10 · 6 February 2008]

Great 4th episode!

I'm psyched that they've kept the quality high so far.

The formula elements were fine, the Sarah Connor voice-over was above average (meditating on the apt story of the Golem), and there was a nicely scary bit.

Don't wake the sleeping terminator!

The final scene at home was handled with some subtlety, too, with John being nonchalant about his scary day and then noticing his hand shake when he was alone.

I guess this was all done before the writers' strike, because someone good is definitely on the job here.

Some Good Action

[Littleman95 · 9/10 · 8 January 2021]

Finally we are entering the real story of this show. With action and all the usual Terminator stuff.

The only thing that makes me frown is that, sticking to the movies, the time travel was a technology hard to build and now is used like a normal thing. But let's keep going and watch.

Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles--Heavy Metal

[Scarecrow-88 · 7/10 · 10 January 2011]

There is a second Terminator(played by soap opera heartthrob Brian Bloom), with a superior exoskeleton, who is using humans to help him carry Cobalt steel to a certain warehouse known as Depot 27 where Cameron acknowledges that she and other cybernetic machines will be produced. On a truck, John is trapped when he attempts to set his cell phone in there as a tracking device. Sarah and Cameron will follow behind while Chromartie(the previous Terminator reassembling itself in the previous episode)receives a "face lift", using the identity of a struggling actor named George Lazslo(Garret Dillahunt) as his cover. Special agent Ellison, despite resistance from his government bosses, is convinced that there's more to the murder of a plastic surgeon(the one who gives Chromartie his new face)and feels it is linked to the other deaths his peers believe were drug-related. It all comes back to a unique type of blood which isn't human and Ellison thinks that something is afoot, but needs clarification despite a lack of evidence which would benefit his theories. Bloom, as the second Terminator, Carter, fulfills the requirement of his character, an unemotional robot with synthetic skin mimicking human. This episode displays John's rebellious nature, going against his mother's command to not endanger himself by entering the Cobalt truck, understanding that he must do something to thwart the creation of hundreds of exoskeleton Terminators.

In reply to luvkittys7

[Joseph-Molion · 9/10 · 2 October 2022]

He didn't rebuild his body. It was buried in a scrap yard (no, they didn't bother to explain how nobody noticed an awesome robot body & it wound up in a scrap yard), and presumably on some sort of signal from the head, it came to retrieve itself from the DPW cleanup guy who grabbed the head.

Excellent episode, as most of them were. This show was almost cinematic in its perfection.

I loved this show so much; it was well written, well conceived, and just overall well designed. I wish they had given us a chance to see the future; I guess it was just not meant to be. Perhaps in the fullness of time, they'll give us a real movie or show that deals in depth with the dark days.

Yes, But. How Does A Head Rebuild It's Own Missing Body??

[luvkittys7 · 7/10 · 25 June 2012]

This is a nice episode. Maybe not one of the best, but the scene at the end is breathtaking and I could watch it over and over again. I have actually. I would love to find out where they filmed this episode and actually visit that lake. But let's get right down to business here. Cameron shows John and Sarah a video of a little silver head with weakly glowing red eyes, that apparently made the time transfer with them. She explains how it's Cromartie and his chip is still intact and he will rebuild himself one leg and one arm at a time. I am trying to picture this. I can't do it. I would love to see this process in action. So, it's a good episode but the moral of the story is this: Just How DOES a Terminator Head rebuild it's missing body?

The Keeper of Coltan...

[Xstal · 8/10 · 8 August 2022]

There's a shipment of Coltan that's being hijacked, while an actors identity is hacked and ransacked, Sarah has tension, John's in ascension, Cameron walks minefields, leaves someone there trapped.