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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, J.K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi, Matt Smith, Courtney B. Vance, Michael Gladis, Sandrine Holt (more)VOD (2)
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When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline. Now, Sgt. Reese finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past, where he is faced with unlikely allies, including the Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger), dangerous new enemies, and an unexpected new mission: To reset the future... (Paramount Pictures)
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I'll bet you a thousand bucks that Arnie will say “I’ll be back” through a tape recorder at his funeral. I don't remember the older episodes so I can't compare too much, but Genisys certainly isn’t a disgrace. On the plus side, there's decent action, decent dark visuals, solid pacing, some cool wisecracks; the best scenes are definitely the helicopter with the bus. The downside is the unnecessary convoluted plot, where the director gets lost along with the viewer, the back and forth time travel, more terminators than people in a supermarket, and it's just chaos and confusion in that regard. The PG-13 didn't matter at all, smart people have long known that blood doesn't flow from a robot and thus wouldn't have been used properly either. I liked the Korean star Byung-hun Lee. 75%.
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And the arrival of Windows 10 begins to provoke a wave of fears... An entertaining mishmash spiced with action with an interesting theme, but a miserable screenplay, ruined in places by stiff dialog and sloppy effects. Overall, I had a better feeling after watching part five than after four and five because it at least tries to link the story to Cameron’s masterpieces, even though this comes nowhere near them. Courtney is still miserable, but less irritating than in the preceding movies, the Clarkes had their best moment some other time or in some other movie, but they give a decent performance. In fact, I would say that we were treated to the most ingenious version of John Connor yet and the twist in the spoiler trailers is one of the most positive aspects of Genisys. Good ol’ Arnold Schwarzenegger is the viewer’s favorite, of course, and the best thing you’ll see in the movie. He repeats himself, says great lines the way we love it, but he’s no longer the Terminator we know. There was only ever one of those - or rather two - Cameron’s. Overall pretty decent entertainment that updates us (very like Jurassic Park, but with diametrically different results - a box-office failure), but not a full-fledged part of the saga, more of a bolt-on.
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It's certainly not a bad film. The opening part, which plays with the viewer and (mainly) with the first part of the saga, was even excellent, but then it (very smoothly, I admit) turned into an extremely and unnecessarily overcomplicated goulash, which was only saved by every shot, every line and every "smile" by Arnold Schwarzenegger. If someone asked me for one reason to see the new Terminator, I'd tell them it's because of Arnold. Actually, for the Arnolds, to be exact. Otherwise, I was disappointed by the lack of action scenes, the sometimes very flashy digital gimmicks (not true of the 1984 T-800, but definitely true of the school bus crash or the helicopter chase), the supremely unsympathetic Jason Clarke, and I was literally annoyed by the scene in the end credits.
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Meh The Fifth Terminator pretty much disappoints in pretty much everything. Arnold is pushed to the background at the expense of Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese's story, which admittedly isn't very compelling, nor are the two actors. The script makes virtually no sense and the paradoxes and problems associated with time travel are all openly disregarded, and when it stops playing on a nostalgic note after half an hour, it ends up being a generic action sci-fi flick that relies more on quantity than quality. There's plenty of action, but it is usually no more than average, and at some points they go way too over-the-top (the helicopter chase was something truly terrifying). The film plays second league in all aspects and hopes to bludgeon you with references, Arnold, and lots of explosions, shootouts, and fights. And it doesn't quite work. The result is a more or less uninteresting hundred and fifty million action sci-fi flick where there's always something going on, but you probably won't be entirely sure you're enjoying it. Not enough for Terminator, but speaking for myself, I'm not too surprised.
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Everything with measure is okay, as long as you don't start thinking about it. Because getting into this mess of a script is really tricky, because all the pasts, futures, presents, alternative pasts, etc., will make your head spin, and that's a shame for a property like Terminator. However, as a compilation of the best shots and iconic scenes from the previous four parts, it works quite well. Unfortunately, in general, it totally lacks the feeling of the second one, it doesn't have the drive and the well-crafted eye-candy visuals from the third one, and you won't find the gloomy post-apocalyptic atmosphere from the fourth one either. Where are the times of Kristanna Loken and her battles with Arnold, because after 12 years, we haven't really moved forward in terms of technology! For example, there's nothing like awesome truck scene. And that is something to think about.
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