Highly Overrated But Still Good

disgusting, overrated, pointless

Disappointment for a huge fan!

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

This is a great history and Arnold is back in the mood as we know him. Hopefully he will make more Terminator movies in the future.

Sequences so bland, they will make you roll your eyes, plot so bad it'll make you vomit, pacing will put you to sleep. Though, it's always fun to see Arnold Schwarzenegger back in a movie so...and also it does bring back nostalgia to when the Terminator series was good. So it's not a FULL out atrocity.

Oh dear. What on Earth has happened here? It is as if Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron have conspired to travel back in time and destroy something fundamental to their existences as movie moguls! In The Bible, verse six of the sixth chapter of the book of Genesis speaks of how filled with pain God was at the fact he had even made human beings in the first place. In "Terminator: Genisys", it is as if the producers are the proponents of something resembling this pain and it is targeted at the first two entries of the Terminator saga! As far as anyone should be concerned, the Terminator franchise had reached a checkpoint of sorts in 2009 with "Salvation"; a project which realised the only stories left to be told were the ones unfolding during the war in the future between man and machine. The preceding three had seemingly dealt with the past-set stuff, with "Rise of the Machines" in particular using as much of the margin as possible in its toying with the lives of the characters involved - even going so far as to change when judgement day happened in the first place. Thus, what remains but to tell the tale of the future war itself? Apparently there IS more story to be told, but in order to do that, we must first run a red marker line through the original films and begin anew whilst systematically attempting to doff our hats to them. "Genisys" is this continuation - a miserable effort at re-inflating the Terminator franchise which runs too long; does horrible things to its established characters; tells a clumsy love story; isn't funny when it thinks it's funny and bashes the frame with too much action. The film begins in 2029, but at the dog-end of the future war between Skynet and the rabble of survivors who came through its initial strike in the twentieth century, when it became aware that it needed to use our nuclear arsenals against us if it was to maintain its livelihood. John Connor (Jason Clarke) and Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) spearhead the final charge, to the extent we essentially 'catch up' on the moment the first film from 1984 begins: the machines, in an act of desperation, send an indestructible machine back in time disguised as a human to strike Connor's mother before he was born. This in turn, of course, causes Connor himself to send back a protector: Reese. But there is a twist in the flop - just as events play out in the way we remember them, Reese witnesses, from the swirling chaos of his time-travel force field, an event which endangers his human allies that was NOT part of the first film's spectrum. Consequently, he is deported off the back of a cliffhanger, and when it appears that the 1984 he was sent to does not match Connor's contemporary description, he knows something is amiss. It is to the filmmaker's credit that they bring to life the 1984 of the first film - that dark; night set; spotlight ridden urban sprawl - as well as they do, but this is as good as it gets. Essentially, the decision has been made to seemingly fuse the 1984 and 1991 films into one, as we learn that history now consists of something entirely different to what we all knew up to this point. Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) is not the mousy, ignorant waitress she once was and has even acquired a T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) of her own. The roles have been subverted: Reese is now the jabbering wreck begging Sarah to tell HIM what's going on... A number of things mark "Genisys" out as a failure: above all else, it is too heavy on the action front where the first two entries resisted this. One of the great triumphs of the 1991 sequel was, despite possessing a premise which encompasses two indestructible robots, its ability to rein the action in and resist just depicting mayhem. Besides cynically being there for the Korean market, actor Lee Byung-hun plays a T-1000 wrapped up in the new universe whose effects are not used sparingly enough. There was always something about the way Robert Patrick oozed through a prison door or dribbled back together again having been shattered apart - director Alan Taylor here just seems to decide none of us are able to sit still, and so must throw the farm at us within the first 20 minutes.Character-wise, in inverting the Michael Biehn-Linda Hamilton roles from the first film, you re-orientate the film to be about Reese finding himself in a new world/predicament and having to come to terms with that. Reese, already being a hardened solider where Sarah was not in Cameron's original, thus has very little to learn or do besides defend Sarah from the new enemy - something her T-800 can do more efficiently anyway. Thematically, the film is therefore not really about anything at all because its protagonist has nothing to learn. Many have jumped on the back of Courtney for his "bad acting" because of this, but he was never provided with anything to do in the first place. Disappointingly, after it plays its hand revealing its new ideas, and once you've ridden the nostalgia wave, the film beds down into a pattern of easy second unit material and a somewhat glib commentary on the role of machines in our lives: this time, it's smart phones and tablets to suit the age. But we have long since left the experience by the time the film tosses Bob Marley onto the soundtrack and has Schwarzenegger skydiving off a helicopter onto another one. I read that Genisys was part of a planned trilogy - let us hope not.

But it was terrible. Didn't keep my attention, didn't make sense. The critics are right on this one.T1 was good, T2 was great, T3 was OK, the rest are all trash, including this.