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  Review by DirkH ★ 53

  No.

  Stop treating this franchise like it's some indestructible robot from the future. It isn't. There is nothing left to tell. To be honest the story was finished after the absolutely brilliant first part.

  I blame James Cameron.

  He set the tone with the sequel, a very well made film that just about negated everything that was brilliant about its predecessor and turned an iconic Sci Fi villain into an accessory.

  And that's how every iteration of this franchise has presented itself. Desperate attempts to fill in gaps that were created in a sketched backstory in part 1.

  And never, ever succeeding.

  In many respects, story wise, Genesys is the worst of the bunch. I have absolutely no problems with…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★ 2

  "This is a meaningless gesture. To hold onto something when you know you must let it go."

  It's time to let go of this series.

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  Review by Gonzo ★★★ 21

  ▶ 2015 Movie Rankings

  Is it better than Mad Max: Fury Road?
  Nooo.

  How does it stack up to the previous Terminator films?
  It can be argued that Genisys is the third best in the series, but that really isn't saying much.

  I haven't seen any of the old Terminator movies. Do I need to watch them first?
  You could watch and understand Genisys even if you haven't seen any of the previous films in the franchise since this one is essentially a reboot. But come on now. How have you not seen Terminator and T2?! Two of the greatest sci-fi films ever! What the fuck, man. Get on that, asap.

  How's the cast?
  Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn will…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★ 4

  Fight! - Stallone v. Schwarzenegger: A Rivalry of Muscular Proportions

  For better or worse, this was actually the first Terminator film I ever watched in theaters.

  And just like on this rewatch, I remember it being okay. As many of these later sequels past T2 have some solid ideas and action, by trying to come up with new twists and turns, again, while there are some good ideas, I don’t feel they were very well executed. The same goes with this sort of reboot. 

  Performances by our new Sarah and Kyle are okay. Emilia and Jai are nowhere near Hamilton and Biehn in terms of their acting or their chemistry, but it could have been worse. There are not precisely…

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  Review by Evan ★★½ 5

  Jai Courtney actually isn't the worst thing about this movie. If anything this gives me a little bit of hope for him in Suicide Squad. I can't even definitively say why, but for whatever reason I liked him in this movie.

  All of the performances are actually pretty good. Terminator Genisys biggest problem is that way too much time spent trying to develop a story that makes little sense. The plot is confusing as hell. Through out the entire film, I just kept thinking to myself "What the hell is going on!?" It's frustrating because with a decent story that makes sense, this film could have actually been pretty good.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★ 4

  Still like this movie and maintain there’s the good stuff in it, but Jai do have a few questions about some of the casting choices.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★ 1

  "time travel makes my head hurt."

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★ 12

  This movie has a lot more in common with STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS than I think most fans of the latter would care to admit. They’re both legacyquels but it goes beyond that. They both recreate the stories of their predecessors, sometimes beat for beat (and, in the case of GENISYS, in a way that's so literal it evokes BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II). The relationships between Sarah and Kyle and Rey and Finn are nearly identical (the guy who believes he is a hero arrives to rescue this woman, who turns out to be far more capable than he is, a fact she repeatedly reminds him of). And Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger's roles are really similar…

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  Review by YI JIAN ★★★ 8

  The greatest sin in Terminator Genisys is not the god-awful title. It's not allowing Jai Courtney to continue his acting career even after a disaster like A Good Day To Die Hard. It's not Emilia Clarke either, who will always have my deepest love no matter how cringe-inducing her lines can get sometimes. It's not the fact that they tried to fool everyone by crediting Hans Zimmer as "executive music producer". (Whatever, man.) It's not the soulless plot, nor is it the extremely cliched Hollywood ending.

  It's casting Lee Byung fuckin' Hun as a terminator, and not let him do anything except getting shot at like a bitch.

  Seriously, how insulting is that? It's like having Morgan Freeman flipping burgers…

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★½ 11

  45/100

  Rating is only this high because I'm a sucker for alternate timelines that recreate and then diverge from previously seen events—one of my favorite movie moments ever is the end of Back to the Future II, when Zemeckis meticulously restages Doc sending Marty back, then has Marty suddenly run into the frame at the exact point where that shot ended in the original film. So the early scenes here that reimagine the opening of The Terminator (using a truly uncanny digital version of '84 Arnold) tickled me, even though Jai Courtney is a dullard who makes Michael Biehn look like Tom Hardy. And I'd even go so far as to say that I like most of the ideas in…

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  Review by Griffin Newman 2

  Just the worst.

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  Review by adambolt ★★★½ 2

  talk about an awkward family reunion amiright