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Terminator Genisys

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When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance against Skynet, sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect his mother, Sarah (Emilia Clarke), from a Terminator assassin, an unexpected turn of events creates an altered timeline. Instead of a scared waitress, Sarah is a skilled fighter and has a Terminator guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger) by her side. Faced with unlikely allies and dangerous new enemies, Reese sets out on an unexpected new mission: reset the future.
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Critics Consensus

Mired in its muddled mythology, Terminator: Genisys is a lurching retread that lacks the thematic depth, conceptual intelligence, or visual thrills that launched this once-mighty franchise.

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Sarah Marshall Bitch Media 01/28/2021
This film should be more on-point than ever, since technology has taken over our lives. But rather than actively antagonizing us, technology simply allows us easy ways to indulge in laziness and cruelty. Go to Full Review
Nick Schager The Daily Beast 10/23/2015
To watch Genisys is to see the franchise become a figurative embodiment of the Terminators themselves: convinced of its own superior vision of the future, it tramples upon the dusty skeletons of the forefathers it's slaughtered to achieve it. Go to Full Review
Emily St. James Vox 10/23/2015
1.5/5
The Terminator franchise has forgotten what made The Terminator and Terminator 2 so great. Go to Full Review
Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson 09/04/2023
2/5
As flashy as it is with tremendous and eye-popping special effects, it has created an extremely convoluted mess of merged timelines and revisionist storytelling that treads all over what made the 1984 original and superior 1991 sequel so great. Go to Full Review
Grant Watson Fiction Machine 06/06/2023
2/10
I found this fifth film genuinely unwatchable. Go to Full Review
Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies 08/25/2022
2.5/5
A ‘Terminator’ film brings with it certain high expectations (from some audiences), and “Genisys” doesn’t meet them. Go to Full Review
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Frank H @RT64886331 1d 11 years later I finally watched this, no hype, no spoilers (that I can remember) and it wasn't that bad. The first act was great, and it was a solid fun movie. Better than T3, more fun than Dark Fate and way more enjoyable than Salvation. I know they gave away a BIG MASSIVE spoiler in the trailers but being so far removed from that, the movie still had plenty of surprises. Time travel is messy. Don't get wrapped up in the nit-picking See more David S @IH8Phags69 2d Stay at home if you don't want to be bored out of your mind! See more IBMd N @Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 3d Terminator: genisys, while obviously spelling it completely wrong is a surprisingly great take on the series and around as close to the mark of the first 2 as we’re ever gonna get, unless Cameron once again rewrites the entire universe just for some cash with a new one, but sadly i can see a few more happening. See more Chris S @Janomi 3d Terminator Genisys deserves some credit for trying to reinvent the franchise instead of simply remaking the earlier films. By introducing an alternate timeline, the screenplay attempts to surprise longtime fans with new twists while revisiting familiar moments from the 1984 original. Arnold Schwarzenegger is once again the movie's biggest asset, bringing warmth, humor, and plenty of charm to the older Guardian T-800. The visual effects and action sequences are consistently impressive, but the increasingly complicated timeline makes the story harder to follow than it should be. The emotional chemistry between the leads also never matches the original films. Despite some entertaining callbacks and Arnold's dependable performance, Genisys never fully capitalizes on its ambitious premise. See more Andre T @andrestuckmannmoviereviews May 28 Terrible man, I hated this film since watching it in the theaters because is by far the worst terminator film ever. F See more Jaycen D. @JDtheGoat May 25 I don’t care what you say this was a blast (might just be because of how glad I was to see Arnold Schwarzenegger back) See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance against Skynet, sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect his mother, Sarah (Emilia Clarke), from a Terminator assassin, an unexpected turn of events creates an altered timeline. Instead of a scared waitress, Sarah is a skilled fighter and has a Terminator guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger) by her side. Faced with unlikely allies and dangerous new enemies, Reese sets out on an unexpected new mission: reset the future.
Director
Alan Taylor
Producer
David Ellison, Dana Goldberg
Screenwriter
Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick Lussier
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Skydance Productions
Rating
PG-13 (Gunplay Throughout|Brief Strong Language|Intense Sci-Fi Violence|Partial Nudity)
Genre
Sci-Fi, Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 1, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 7, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$89.8M
Runtime
2h 6m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital, Datasat
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)