fatcats-955-961162 I know it's not a huge favorite but no idea so much hate was being given to this movie. I loved the redux of a familiar and well loved plot of the original Terminator being twisted after several scenes completely the same. We get to see a little more backstory of future John Connor and Kyle Reese. We see the events leading up to the tactical time machine weapon being used. And while no one can ever replace the original actors portraying the characters, I feel like this new version of the movie series represents the heart of the series haunting refrain: the future is not set. This could be one of the many potential futures triggered by time travel. Arnold reprises his titular character. His character in his original youth - cgi special effects looking both plastic and odd but also fitting his robotic character. In a scene where we all know and love to see the 80's punks getting their butts beat up and killed, we see it interrupted by a much older, and grayer, Arnold. The younger plastic Arnold attacks, and we enjoy a fight between them.Later we see Kyle Reeces arrival and what starts out faithfully recreated also contains a new twist. Finally after a near death experience and a rescue, the plot is tweaked again, and we discover the rescuer is none other than Sarah Connor. I don't want to keep giving way the plot, so will only say that events and plot develop into an exciting movie. Give this a shot. Don't expect it to be a faithful and complete scene for scene recreation of the movie. And I'm thankful for that. I didn't want another remake but I think for this series with time travel being an integral part of the mythos that it makes sense. Great acting, decent writing and dialogue and limited exposition along with strong special effects support the plot. While many hate this movie, I applaud it. Is it perfect? Oh no. Never that. But. It's solid. And enjoyable. And I'm looking forward to this new version and future movies with same characters returning to delight me.

strupar-66747 How on earth did Emilia clark got the role of Sarah connor? She is an awful actress.

MJB784 The action scenes were cool and so were the special effects. It had excitement, but the story wasn't focused. It had too many timelines. It had too many villains and one of the villains appeared briefly as a cop like the liquid metal T-1000, but had nothing to do with the movie. I loved it at first, until they had this frustrating twist of John Connor. In addition, Sarah Connor had a completely different back story shown from when she was nine years old that I didn't think was necessary either. The timeline of the first two has been severely altered, but I still love the first two the most. Out of the five Terminators, I rate this fourth place behind only T3.

nbutcher-69458 Arnie is back again in a Terminator movie, and while all the special effects and explosions are back in all their twisted glory - the story just makes no sense whatsoever.It's really not even comprehensible. I mean, I tried and all. However the story writers decided to seriously complicate the plot from a "Back to the Future" understanding of time travel and fast forward it all the way to a "Primer" levels of time travel. The end result is an incomprehensible mess of a story.If the plot is just so utterly jumbled - that even IF I were to sit down and motivated to even try to understand it - it really doesn't matter. The end result is a story we don't understand. A story we don't care about. A story about people we don't understand and couldn't care less about - because we have no idea who what or why anything is even happening. It's as if the movie wants to say "Things are going to blow up! Just accept it!".Terminator Genisys is a pure example about how movies can ultimately say nothing about the human condition and for all the special effects effectively mean zilch - and be all the worse for it. There was some subtle theme about being too trusting of technology with all our connected devices in there but it was so limp-wristed, so pathetically tacked on, and half-hearted that it deserves to be ignored.But by golly, by jingo, by jimminy willers, there were a lot of explosions!