Terminator
Genisys
They have taken everything you know about The Terminator, chopped it
up, tossed it like a salad and put it on a plate before you promising
it will be delicious. It’s still just a salad.
Jai Courtney stars as Kyle Reese – a dedicated soldier
fighting for the human resistance effort in 2029. John Connor (Jason
Clarke) leads what is left of humans after a nuclear war put computers
in charge, but today is the day all of that can change (Sounds
familiar, right?).
Kyle is being sent back in time to 1984 to save Connor’s
mother, Sarah (Emilia Clarke), from being killed by a Terminator
(Arnold Schwarzenegger) before she can become pregnant with John. Along
with the stunning victory the resistance is about to achieve, this act
will save humanity.
However, Kyle discovers a 1984 much different from what he has been led
to believe he will find, and he must team up with Sarah to change the
future because the evil SkyNet has also changed the past and future in
ways that may lead to the end of humanity.
I dare you to try to
keep it all straight.
Yet, I don’t think that is the point of Terminator
Genisys.
Director Alan Taylor will be blowing some stuff up.
Writers Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier will provide some kooky
one-liners for Arnold.
Arnold will deliver those kooky one-liners.
That’s the gist and purpose of Terminator
Genisys. Think of it as a mish
mash of everything you already know with some new fight scenes tossed
in!
Fans may enjoy the intellectual game of watching what happens to the
future as various forces attempt to change it, but it is too late in
the game for newcomers. Sure, everything is explained and might be
shocking if you have never seen a Terminator movie, but this is a movie
made for people who know every nook and cranny of the canon as the
creative team takes advantage of your love for the movies to deliver
something lackluster and unoriginal.
Emilia Clarke and Courtney do not have the material nor the chemistry
to make their growing attraction feel believable or as vital to the
story as we know it to be.
Schwarzenegger is hamming it up spitting out familiar lines as he does
what he does best – act wooden for ironic and comic sake.
Then, we do get some awesome special effects. The fight scenes,
computers projecting images of themselves, terminators shape shifting
and more all is very awesome to watch, but it’s not enough to
make Terminator Genisys
a MUST SEE movie.
In the end, you get the impression everyone involved in making the film
feels the actual action of doing something is vastly more important
than the why behind it, so we can enjoy the spectacle, but not much
else as Terminator Genisys
devolves into non-stop action.
Terminator
Genisys is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and
gunplay throughout, partial nudity and brief strong language.
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