Terminator Genisys
John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the rebel resistance, sends his right hand man, Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back in time to the year 1984 with the intention of training and protecting Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), John’s mother. However, upon arrival, it would appear timelines have shifted, stopping Skynet will take a mind bending and time jumping effort by all players, will humanity ever stand a chance?
Implausible time travel plot lines that collapse upon themselves from square one, check. Impossible thrills, chills, and spills, check. Chance for Arnold Schwarzenegger to recite some of his most famous lines ever, check. Humans fighting robot and technology enslavement again, check. Ah yes, we must be talking about the latest Terminator film in the Terminator franchise. Never a franchise known for it’s sharp prose or syntax, we’re not challenged this go round either; but, stepping beyond the norm, the possibility of love is a new addition, hackneyed as it is. Cheese Whiz scripting does little to improve the overall film here. Meanwhile, from an action, explosion, boom boom boom perspective, the film does manage to achieve all of its goals, everything does manage to blow up, if only films were screened in 4D with the heat of real Flame Feel to bring you closer to the explosion experience, now there’s a marketing idea, patent pending. To their credit, the CGI wizards that make this film wholly possible have managed to build upon the earlier and already established look of the previous films, plenty of hat tips to kill shots gone by. Still, the film registers on the forgettable scale pretty high, there’s just not enough “new” in this old idea. Matinee or rental? Maybe. Terminator Genisys is rated PG-13.