Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Too much of everything

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Terminator Genisys (2015) ReviewIt gets off to a promising start with an entertaining future war battle and a confrontation between a liquid metal terminator. There is also a fun fight where Arnold fights his younger self. However by the time the second act kicks in the film becomes convoluted and starts to fall apart becoming a parody of itself. They re-filmed some of the stuff from the 1984 film like the shooting locations which look spot on and a really convincing CG recreation of a young Arnold. But the punks who get their clothes stolen look nothing like the ones from the first film. Put those two scenes side by side and you can tell instantly from their clothing and hairstyles that they look nothing alike, they just look like bad cosplayers. Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese was a poor casting choice as he bares little resemblance to the previous actor who played him and his acting is also very wooden. Emilia Clarke is great as Sarah Connor and she does look like Linda Hamilton from the 80's but towards the end she just becomes a little bit annoying. Arnold Schwarzenegger looks to be enjoying himself here but being in his late sixties he really needs to consider quitting. Yes they explain that cyborg skin ages like humans (which is a stretch even for these films) but it's just an excuse to keep him in the role for years to come. "Old, not obsolete" is his new catchphrase. The villain is quite interesting as its non other than John Connor merged with a cyborg (thank the trailers for ruining that twist). His abilities look visually stunning but he's wasted as he doesn't show up until the third act. There are too many plot threads going on throughout and the film loses it focus. There is some fun to be had and the action sequences are enjoyable but they don't really serve a purpose, they are just there for the sake of it. They tried to do something different with it but it just isn't enough for it to work as a Terminator film. Clearly a victim of studio meddling, it's just another needless sequel to the franchise which has run its course. They are currently shooting a reboot which ignores the events of the last three movies. Third times the charm. Let's hope they don't mess this one up.

This movie is terrible they ruin everything before this movie and the worst actor of maybe all time jai courtney is in this and as always he is horrible so this movie ruins the first terminator in 15 minutes by screwing up the timeline and they screw up the second one too and then John Connor is now a terminator why would you do that the most interesting character and then turn him into a terminator the good terminator movies are gone it's now hollywood's slave for money and another problem like that the last one it's pg -13 terminator is not for kids like the first three this movie is a huge disgrace to this franchise.

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.

Arnie is back again in a Terminator movie, and while all the special effects and explosions are back in all their twisted glory - the story just makes no sense whatsoever.It's really not even comprehensible. I mean, I tried and all. However the story writers decided to seriously complicate the plot from a "Back to the Future" understanding of time travel and fast forward it all the way to a "Primer" levels of time travel. The end result is an incomprehensible mess of a story.If the plot is just so utterly jumbled - that even IF I were to sit down and motivated to even try to understand it - it really doesn't matter. The end result is a story we don't understand. A story we don't care about. A story about people we don't understand and couldn't care less about - because we have no idea who what or why anything is even happening. It's as if the movie wants to say "Things are going to blow up! Just accept it!".Terminator Genisys is a pure example about how movies can ultimately say nothing about the human condition and for all the special effects effectively mean zilch - and be all the worse for it. There was some subtle theme about being too trusting of technology with all our connected devices in there but it was so limp-wristed, so pathetically tacked on, and half-hearted that it deserves to be ignored.But by golly, by jingo, by jimminy willers, there were a lot of explosions!