John Connor sends Kyle Reese back in time to protect Sarah Connor, but when he arrives in 1984, nothing is as he expected it to be.
Director:
Alan TaylorWriters:
Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick LussierStoryline
When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline. Now, Sgt. Reese finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past, where he is faced with unlikely allies, including the Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger), dangerous new enemies, and an unexpected new mission: To reset the future...
User Reviews
Man, if you care about your childhood favorite movies, every time there's a new installment there's a great hype about it, but if George Lucas teach us something from the Phantom Menace, it's that sometimes is better for fans to leave a franchise rest in peace (even if the producers disagree). If you still hold a resentment against Lucas for that "NOOOO!" at the end of "Revenge of the Sith", please, don't watch Terminator: Genesys. It's a BIG F*** YOU to T1 and T2.
It, literally,aims to "rebuild the franchise" at it's core, making a move that only Skynet would dare to do, and that is to "erase" the past: T1 happened in some sort of twist, weird, way, but T2 is forgotten forever. "Hasta la vista, Baby" never happened (and never will).
In the movie, each character acts as if they had already watch the whole saga and said like: "Now, were are doing it our way...". They know like each fun fact from T1 and T2, in some point, i was really expecting anything: Marty Mcfly making a cameo? it was a high possibility.
It started as Mad Max: Fury Road, and ended like San Andreas, and not only because they are settled in San Francisco.
There are some cool actions scenes (and few hardly emotional ones), but everything is mainly a remake of the best scenes in T1 and T2, so Arnold can come up with it's iconic one-liners. But, there are two scenes involving music, that really, REALLY, messed up with the whole Terminator essence that James Cameron wanted. Example: there's a scene that looks like a musical (or any STOMP show), and i'm not kidding.
But, the BIGGEST, the WACKIEST thing they did to the WHOLE TERMINATOR FRANCHISE is...renaming the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) as: POPS. Again, i'm not kidding: no more T-800, "It's Pops, kids, it's Pops...". So, if this is you're first Terminator movie, you'll know from here on the T-800 as Pops, no as "The Terminator". It really, broke my childhood into pieces look at what James Cameron did and what this monsters had done (and refuse to stop).
Why "Pops", Why that silly name? WHYYYY???
The Terminator saga is like Skynet, it refuses to die...Each new movie is damaging more our childhood and the saga as a whole. And why? BECAUSE TERMINATOR WAS SUPPOSED TO END IN T2. Not to continue forever.
Maybe, as a stand alone film, it can hold up, but, knowing what T1 and T2 are and achieve (specially if you're a fan), it really is a brand new: "RIGHT IN THE CHILDHOOD".
Forgive them, James Cameron, the don't know what they are doing..Forgive them.
It, literally,aims to "rebuild the franchise" at it's core, making a move that only Skynet would dare to do, and that is to "erase" the past: T1 happened in some sort of twist, weird, way, but T2 is forgotten forever. "Hasta la vista, Baby" never happened (and never will).
In the movie, each character acts as if they had already watch the whole saga and said like: "Now, were are doing it our way...". They know like each fun fact from T1 and T2, in some point, i was really expecting anything: Marty Mcfly making a cameo? it was a high possibility.
It started as Mad Max: Fury Road, and ended like San Andreas, and not only because they are settled in San Francisco.
There are some cool actions scenes (and few hardly emotional ones), but everything is mainly a remake of the best scenes in T1 and T2, so Arnold can come up with it's iconic one-liners. But, there are two scenes involving music, that really, REALLY, messed up with the whole Terminator essence that James Cameron wanted. Example: there's a scene that looks like a musical (or any STOMP show), and i'm not kidding.
But, the BIGGEST, the WACKIEST thing they did to the WHOLE TERMINATOR FRANCHISE is...renaming the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) as: POPS. Again, i'm not kidding: no more T-800, "It's Pops, kids, it's Pops...". So, if this is you're first Terminator movie, you'll know from here on the T-800 as Pops, no as "The Terminator". It really, broke my childhood into pieces look at what James Cameron did and what this monsters had done (and refuse to stop).
Why "Pops", Why that silly name? WHYYYY???
The Terminator saga is like Skynet, it refuses to die...Each new movie is damaging more our childhood and the saga as a whole. And why? BECAUSE TERMINATOR WAS SUPPOSED TO END IN T2. Not to continue forever.
Maybe, as a stand alone film, it can hold up, but, knowing what T1 and T2 are and achieve (specially if you're a fan), it really is a brand new: "RIGHT IN THE CHILDHOOD".
Forgive them, James Cameron, the don't know what they are doing..Forgive them.
