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The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
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| Homepage | https://www.paramount.com/movies/terminator-genisys |
|---|---|
| Release Date | 2015-06-23 |
| Runtime | 2h 6m |
| Directors | Alan Taylor, Kramer Morgenthau, Elena Albanese, Shawn D. Bronson, Marlene Chazot, Aaron Haye, Alexander Witt, Larry Blanford, David Sardi, Philip A. Patterson, Richard Oswald, Hans Bjerno, Alexander Witt |
| Producers | Bill Carraro, Laeta Kalogridis, Megan Ellison, David Ellison, Patrick Lussier, Dana Goldberg, Paul Schwake, Shari Hanson, Thomas Nittmann, Chad Nixon, Kevin Field, Fathy Hassan, Shari Hanson, Rupert Porter, Mare McIntosh, Kim Phelan, Mark Webb, Christine Dougherty |
| Writers | Patrick Lussier, Laeta Kalogridis, James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd |
Some people have said that Terminator: Genisys is disrespectful to its source material (first two films) but I disagree. Out of what is clearly a massive homage to Judgement Day, Genisys gives away the entire plot and central “twist” in its promotional material months before its release, just like Judgement Day did!
All levity aside, Terminator: Genisys is not great. They took some risks with their casting and it didn’t explode in their face which is nice, a lot of the effects were very visually impressive, and it was fun to see the weapons of the future be purple lasers again, but these aren’t things that make a good movie by themselves. When you mix them up with a plot that doesn’t completely make sense, a story that’s just plain not all that great, some hammy dialogue and a lacklustre ending, then you SPOIL YOUR OWN DAMN MOVIE IN THE TRAILERS AND POSTERS, then you’re lucky to even be coming away with a middle of the road score like this one.
At least it’s not Rise of the Machines.
Final rating: ★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.
— Gimly
Terminator Salvation was pretty bad, but this brings it to a whole new level. What we have hear is a reboot of the canon that no one actually asked for, that no one actually wanted, and that makes really no sense.
Honestly, it's even worse than T3, which at least felt like a continuation of the series.
Here everything is changed so much that, well, there is nothing left. It took the entire Terminator franchise, and re-worked it to kill all the canon, all the mythology, for no apparent reason whatsoever.
And what you have left is a disheveled mess that is guaranteed to make the old fans give up and walk away because of the sheer needlessness alone.
— GenerationofSwine