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Terminator Genisys

Terminator Genisys (AKA Terminator 5)

2015

Alan Taylor

Emilia Clarke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney ...

5.2

22,749

Sci-Fi. Action The year is 2032. When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance against Skynet and the machines, 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A reasonably entertaining and niftily executed sci-fi action-thriller (...) a script that is nimbler in its logistics than in its treatment of its characters (...) the movie's greatest attraction remains Schwarzenegger."	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Action scenes are accumulated as if mandated by a stop-watch and almost invariably seem like warmed-over versions of stuff we've seen before"	NEG
United States	James Rocchi The Wrap	"A flimsy fifth film (...) there’s nothing here with the stark simple power of “The Terminator” or the strong-but-strange brilliant inventions of “Terminator 2.” Instead, it’s all less-than-spectacular “spectacle”"	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"A misguided attempt to give the 31-year-old franchise a massive cybernetic facelift. (...) The “Terminator” franchise, by now, has become its own worst Skynet (...) Awfully futile."	NEG
United States	Joe Neumaier New York Daily News	"One achievement of James Cameron's 'Terminator' is that it overcame its low-rent, B-movie trappings. The great sin of 'Genisys' is that it costs millions and yet isn't worth a dime (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"[This sequel] offers little-to-nothing that we haven't seen before and presenting it in a visually drab and emotionally vacant fashion (...) The action scenes are efficient but perfunctory and dull"	NEG
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"Terminator used to be a sci-fi franchise defined by its cool time-travel concept and even better special effects. Unfortunately, it's 'Hasta la vista, baby,' to those good old days (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"So what if it's a head-scratcher? Arnold is back. And he's the Man. What are you waiting for? (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"'Terminator Genisys' doesn't take any pokes or try any dark satire in its technology-enslavement angle. This is strictly business, and dull business at that"	NEG
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"While the series thrill is lamentably long gone, franchises now apparently last forever."	NEG
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"Alan Taylor handles the big action adeptly as he did in Thor The Dark World, but the script is an ever-decreasing cycle of tool-ups, chase sequences and daft monologues"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"“Terminator Genisys” is the fifth installment in the movie franchise, and by now it’s clear they could have stopped after 'The Terminator' and 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' (...) the best thing in the movie is Schwarzenegger (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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