Review of Terminator Genisys (2015) by Kimberly B — 13 Sep 2016

Successful remakes, reboots, rehashes - whatever you want to call them - are an elusive beast. This Frankenstein creation, stitched together from the body parts of four separate Terminator movies (one excellent, one good-ish and two mediocre-to-poor), was never going to hack it.

The plot, if you wish to call it that, is so convoluted the Byzantines would have quailed. The movie seems to operate on the presumption that most viewers will find time-travel too arduous to fathom and just watch the constant references to previous installments of the franchise and the special effects.

But I found these so poorly effected that I gave up after about an hour. It's saying something when a Dyson cordless is scarier than a T-800, this effort is best avoided.