judemom
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.
rac060254
OK, this is just entertainment and not 'earth shattering', but this newest 'Terminator' just makes a mess of what had been established in the previous 4 movies. The famous speech in the first movie did not include the famous 'no fate but what we make' part, that was retrofitted into the 2nd movie. In the 2nd movie the extinction of the human race in 1997 was averted, then in the 3rd movie it ended up happening anyway in 2003. The 4th movie held onto all of this backstory and had John Connor married to Kate and looking for (and eventually finding) a teenager Kyle Reese to make sure he can send him back in time to be his father. This movie just ignores all of this, even before the timeline shift that occurs when Sky Net convert John Connor. The movie starts out with the extinction of the human race happening in 1997 which was averted in the 2nd movie, Kyle Reese is found by John Connor when he is still a young boy, the famous speech that was given to Kyle Reese now includes the famous 'no fate' line. All this before any timeline shifts.They people who made this movie could have paid better attention and had all of this recounted according to the way it went in the original 4 movies, it would not have adversely effected the rest of the movie at all. So, why did they botch this stuff up so badly?
MJB784
The action scenes were cool and so were the special effects. It had excitement, but the story wasn't focused. It had too many timelines. It had too many villains and one of the villains appeared briefly as a cop like the liquid metal T-1000, but had nothing to do with the movie. I loved it at first, until they had this frustrating twist of John Connor. In addition, Sarah Connor had a completely different back story shown from when she was nine years old that I didn't think was necessary either. The timeline of the first two has been severely altered, but I still love the first two the most. Out of the five Terminators, I rate this fourth place behind only T3.
nbutcher-69458
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!
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