Terminator Genisys

by Alan Taylor (Director)

Other authorsLaeta Kalogridis (Author), Laeta Kalogridis (Producer), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Actor), Jason Clarke (Actor), Dana Goldberg (Producer), J. K. Simmons (Actor), Matt Smith (Actor), Courtney B. Vance (Actor), David Ellison (Producer), Patrick Lussier (Author), Roger Barton (Editor)15 more, Sandrine Holt (Actor), Michael Gladis (Actor), Kramer Morgenthau (Cinematographer), Lorne Balfe (Composer), Emilia Clarke (Actor), Jai Courtney (Actor), Byung-Hun Lee (Actor), Dayo Okeniyi (Actor), Bryant Prince (Actor), Wayne Bastrup (Actor), Bil Carraro (Producer), Willa Taylor (Actor), Ian Etheridge (Actor), Nolan Gross (Actor), Seth Meriwether (Actor)
DVD, 2015

Description

When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2015-07-01

Publication

2015.

Local notes

Included in the T1-6 box set.

Library's rating

½

Library's review

Unfairly maligned. It's a bit overly glossy and shallow, to be sure, but compared to "Salvation", this is a solid, fun film. E. Clarke does a fine job as Sarah Connor (she even looks a bit like Hamilton) and the way the first film's continuity is revisited and revamped is almost Back to the
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Future-esque, in a good way. Some of the jokes land fairly well, J. K. Simmons is (as ever) fantastic, and Schwarzenegger gets to be funnier here than in any other Terminator film. Does it hold a candle to the original two? Heck, no. But it can probably stand shoulder to shoulder with the just-fine third one, and the main strike against it is simply all the loose ends it left hanging for the sequels they never got to make.
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Rating

(13 ratings; 3)

User reviews

LibraryThing member infjsarah
OK, I guess but very much milking a franchise to its last drops.
The original Terminator is a fab little sci-fi film with great ideas and where Arnie is not the star. Terminator 2 is a good film but it's bangs and explosions and Arnie as the star and the films since then have been much the same.
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This passed the time but that was about it. And I really didn't like what was done to the John Connor character.
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