Review of Terminator Genisys (2015) by Mustisthecat — 02 Aug 2015

The real Terminator 3 for me. I waited 22 years for this. Everything here is well done, with some minor flaws. Great show, nice story and AHNOLD! You will need to watch it at least two times though.

After T3 I was afraid that T5 might be even worse but I went to watch it anyway. And boy am I happy I did! Definitely worth watching, even for T1/T2 fanatics.

To any and all critics giving it below 70 I say GTFO.

STORY.

Too complicated for a Terminator flick. Too many changes of scenery and objectives. The numerous versions of the past and the future messed it up a bit too much. There are a few holes here and there and too many questions arise during the viewing. Most of it is explained in as simple manner as possible by the actors yet it is hard to think about it. The reason for that is the action scenes are too close to each other. Basicly in every Terminator flick what you got was this : setup---action---explaining dialogues---action---more dialogues---etc.---ending. Every --- means 10-15 minutes so the viewer can rest a bit and get the hang of what is going on. Not in T5, here every --- durates for 5-7 minutes and then you get action. Not enough time to comprehend.

At some moment I felt like watching Inception and for an action movie it is not good.

Other than that the story makes sense and is deep enough. The holes are not so gaping to call BS. You watch it and hear the dialogues….ok, I can work with that. It is also interesting to see what T5 did to T1 and T2 and it is faithful to the original material, with one exception.

Moreover I was surprised two times by how it goes and that happens very rarely nowadays. Big props for that.

I absolutely loved the ending.

So T5 is a full action movie with deep enough story as in T1/T2. Classic stuff in the best sense.

Oneliners are great. Dialogues are ok. Some old questions from T1/T2 get answered here aswell.

CAST.

Here I feel the movie could have done better. In T1/T2 all characters are deep and you sympathise with them. In T5 they feel more like story drones. Ahnold who plays a machine stands out among the human characters that are a bit hollow.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is everything I hoped for. He is nothing short of the T2 guy, a bit worse than T1 electronic murderer. It feels like the whole flick is AHNOLD-APPROVED for great entertainment.

Sarah Connor at first I didn`t like but the got through with good performance. Has everything the original Sarah had. With Arnie she keeps up the comical part through the whole movie.

Kyle Reese…no, just no. Kyle was not a hulk of a man he is in T5. He was not as stupid and iritating as the one in T5. Good performance but a mishap of the character.

John Connor - ok I guess, nothing outstanding but he did his part. I`d like him to be more into his character but it came out remote. I guess if he was bad then he`d ruin the movie but it didn`t happen so overall good job.

T1000 for the time he got in the flick I`d say he was meh.

SHOW.

FANSERVICE!!! Lots of it in this movie and in just the right proportions as to not ruin the story. The whole movie pays homage to the first two films and it brought some cool new stuff on its own.

Too much CGI, a bit. It was good but they overdid it just a notch. The T1 Ahnold looked ok but nowhere near natural (although much better than in Salvation).

Overall all the fights look cool, creative and deal some serious environment damage. The only one I didn’t like was the helicopter scene.

MUSIC.

A big NO. What the hell? Am I watching a Terminator flick or a Man of Steel flick?! Completely missed the mood of the movie. Came out artificial and needlessly pathetic. Adds nothing to the movie but feels like an itch with minor minutes of in between breaks. Not every movie needs an epic orchestra tune to make it look and feel good. Didn`t ruin the movie but I can`t believe they screwed this up that much.

I rate Genisys at 83/100.