Terminator Genisys (2015)

Powerful

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

First off, I Loved the original Terminator and T2 was incredible. I felt T3 wasn't needed and was lacking but, I didn't hate it. I guess it was he female terminator that was the major dosapintment. I really enjoyed the fourth film Salvation. I don't know why people didn't like it. It was a good film. Now Genisys started with some great ideas and I was getting really excited. Using elements of the first 2 films and creating something really hectic crazy. I was into it. Then it got stupid. In a lot of ways. I don't like to put spoilers in here, so I won't. But, one things is they ruined John Connor and all he is meant to be & stand for. Instead of tying in with the originals 2 films it actually crapped on hem and ruined their whole story and the point of John Connor. What a twist!? Yes. But, a stupid one. John Connor aside, the amount of jumping through time was getting too much. I understand time travel was a part of the first 3 films but, very minimal, the films didn't keep focusing on it. Anyway.... nothing wrong with the acting here. No best actor awards I'd give but, everyone was fine. It wasn't the actors faults that this movie is a mess. It's the story and possibly made worse by how it was put together. I'd recommend missing this one unless you can handle the mess it makes of the Terminator universe and just view it as a B-Grade flawed SciFi movie on its own.

This movie isn't a 7, but it's better that T3 and T salvation. Arnold brought this movie back. T2 is awesome cause of Sarah Connor. This weakness of this movie is not the real Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese. They were the let down.

I just caught this on FX for the first time. I'm not a fan of remakes, especially anything beyond the "sequel" level. This is about the 5th installment of the Terminator Franchise so I didn't expect much, but if you are in the mood for an Action movie, it will satisfy your entertainment desires.There is plenty of cool action sequences, and surprisingly, the movie has an emotional aspect to it like the original two classics. However, nothing can compare to the first 2 in quality overall. There are a couple of scenes where they "drop the ball" in cannon to the original movies, but I guess if it was for a few laughs, you can't complain much. There were some really funny scenes in it, and Arnold has his "one liners", which was good to see.Emilia Clarke does a good job despite having to live up to high expectations. Compared to the comic book movie genre that has flooded the film industry, I'd say a quality return to the original Terminator franchise for action movies is much better.7.5/10

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.