Terminator Genisys Review

Not all films can make a franchise, not all films have the material and the content to create a series of films with enough quality. The Terminator franchise, started by James Cameron in the 80s, created a universe that crossed multiple time zones and the first two are flawless sci-fi classics, since then however it’s all gone horribly downhill, and now with the horribly titled Terminator Genisys it’s difficult to see if there’s any hill left, because this is a new level of terrible. First the good parts, the opening is a strong depiction of the post judgement day future, there is also some phenomenal CGI work creating a fight sequence between an old T-800 and a young T-800 (old Arnie vs young Arnie). Now the rest, Emilia Clarke is an abysmal Sarah Conor, never convinces in the slightest as an action lead, looking and acting for the most part like someone made a terrible decision and handed a teenager a rifle. Jai Courtney continues his terrible run of form as a terrible lead in a terrible film, Kyle Reese is meant to be a weak food deprived survivalist who is genuinely terrified of T-800’s and T-1000’s, what Courtney brings is a muscle bound quippy superstar who never feels threatened. The worst sin of this film by far is its story; it feels like a group of studio executives just threw out some random ideas and then never made the effort to make them work at all. Nothing is explained and the film poses about 1000 questions that it’s obvious even the film doesn’t know the answers to. The only thing that saves this from being a one star films is the amount of time I spent laughing at the film, but I was laughing at it, never with it, and I hope to god that this franchise is dead, I’m off to watch T2. (Low 2 Stars)