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Jul 1, 2015 · 26% Tomatometer 278 Reviews. Rotten audience score. 52% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings. When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance against Skynet, sends Kyle Reese (Jai ...
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Jul 1, 2015 · Reviews. Terminator Genisys. Christy Lemire July 01, 2015. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The central thrust of the scattered, clanging and unwieldy “Terminator Genisys” is that the Cloud will destroy us all. Now, they don’t exactly call it the Cloud, as they do in last year’s “ Sex Tape .”
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By Eric Goldman
Posted: Jun 29, 2015 10:22 pm
It’s been 24 years since we’ve had a truly great Terminator movie – though we did have a terrific, albeit short-lived TV series a few years back – and unfortunately, that doesn’t change with Terminator Genisys.
While the new film -- which comes from director Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones, Thor: The Dark World) -- offers a pretty dramatic alternate reality scenario, this is hardly the first time the convoluted Terminator franchise has seen things change from what we knew to be true. Here though, that’s a specific plot point from the get go, as Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) travels back to 1984 to save Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), only to find the situation incredibly different than he expected. Instead of a nondescript waitress, Sarah is already a hardened, battle-ready warrior, trained since childhood by a Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger, of course). Well aware of the entire scenario in the future, Sarah is determined to stop Skynet once and for all (yep, again!), with a plan involving time traveling to yet another era – though that trip doesn’t go as planned, in more ways than one.
It's good to see that Genisys doesn’t specifically copy the formula from the first three Terminators – while there are obviously still robots trying to kill Sarah and Kyle, it’s not exactly the same scenario, and the three different time frames the movie takes place in enlivens the proceedings. The early scenes also are innately fun in terms of using our familiarity with the first Terminator film to fuel the story. The extended opening credits show us, for the first time, the lead-up to both the original T-800 and Kyle being sent back to 1984, and the moments right before their appearance in the first movie. And as the trailers indicate, specific scenes from The Terminator are recreated, but with a twist, as things don’t go as Kyle (or we) expect in his encounters.
However, the movie, written by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier, never really comes into its own. There are a lot of obvious references to the original and several to Terminator 2 peppered through the movie and what feels like veiled nods to events and reveals from Terminator 3, Terminator Salvation and even, intentional or not, to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (when Kyle and Sarah time travel together, where they end up feels very similar to a scene from that show). These are amusing, sure, but at times pretty extraneous – it’s nice to see Miles Dyson again (here played by Courtney B. Vance), but his inclusion is ultimately inconsequential. He’s there for us to go, “Cool, Miles Dyson!” And then he doesn’t actually do anything.
Terminator Genisys isn’t lacking ideas. It has multiple realities, takes place in multiple eras and involves a familiarity with multiple movies. (In one of the film’s funnier moments, Schwarzenegger’s Terminator at one point exasperates Kyle as he attempts to explain what is going on.) But it also feels pretty messy and unfocused. There are some no...
Jun 24, 2015 · By Justin Chang. Courtesy of Paramount Pictures. “I’m old, not obsolete,” mutters Arnold Schwarzenegger ’s aging android in “Terminator Genisys,” and his words could be a wishful mantra for...
Jul 1, 2015 · Terminator Genisys: Directed by Alan Taylor. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney. When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.
Jul 1, 2015 · Generally Unfavorable Based on 41 Critic Reviews. 38. 12% Positive. 5 Reviews. 59% Mixed. 29% Negative. 12 Reviews. 75. Rolling Stone. Jul 1, 2015. Terminator Genisys fires on all action cylinders when director Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) follows the model James Cameron set in the first two films, still the glory of the series. Read More.
