Terminator Genisys

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Terminator Genisys

PG-13

2015

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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.

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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.

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Emily St. James

Vox

10/23/2015

1.5/5

The Terminator franchise has forgotten what made The Terminator and Terminator 2 so great.

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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.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

06/06/2023

2/10

I found this fifth film genuinely unwatchable.

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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.

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Frank H

@RT64886331 4d

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

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David S

@IH8Phags69 6d

Stay at home if you don't want to be bored out of your mind!

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IBMd N

@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 6d

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.

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Chris S

@Janomi 6d

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.

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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

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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)

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Alan Taylor

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Guardian

Jason Clarke

John Connor

Emilia Clarke

Sarah Connor

Jai Courtney

Kyle Reese

J.K. Simmons

O'Brien

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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)