Review of Terminator Genisys (2015) by Healingtoolbox1 — 08 Jul 2015

To me, what this movies suffers from is jaded audiences. What's the standard now for summer blockbusters? If the script is good, usually meaning a team of collaborative writers as with Pixar's best movies, and the production values above average, the movie is pretty enjoyable or perhaps near-great. This certainly describes the Marvel movies of the last five years and Jurrassic World as well.

How can people LOVE Jurrassic World but hate T-Genisys? Jaded audiences?

T-5 is not quite as good as the under-rated T-4, the fable of a Terminator who wished to become a human being. Wonderful storytelling. T-5 is almost this good. Its virtues for me are the tender care and consideration given to Terminator lore and to Arnold in his role. If you liked T-2, you probably liked how the two Terminators crash up a shopping mall. That same wonderful energy of casual destruction of cultural places is duplicated--not imitated--in T-5 when they casually crash up a hospital and police station. Duplicating the look, feel and energy of one of the strongest images of Cameron's T-2 is no small feat.

You'd think the excitement of Cameron's original liquid metal Terminator in T-2 would be hard to duplicate. Allen Taylor's oriental cool and deadly liquid T-2 equals or surpasses the original, again, no mean feat.

So what's not to like? If you liked T1 and T-2, I suspect you'll really like T-5; unless of course, being jaded is a value to you.