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Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jai Courtney, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke
Scene after the Credits: Yes (actually just after cast scroll, but before crew scroll)
Would I see this again: Yes
Notable Previews: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part2
Bottom Line: Back to the exciting T2 days!
I'd heard this was doing so well at the box office and was concerned, but after seeing it, I'm guessing that trying to compete against Jurassic World and the latest Pixar film stole some of its ticket sales. This is the 5th film in the series, and while 3 & 4 were disappointing, I felt that Genisys brought the franchise back to the excitement of 2nd film.
The movie starts in the future and shows how John Connor & Kyle Reese captured the Skynet base that holds the time machine used to send the Terminator back to 1984. We see Kyle get sent back in time as well as the original T-800 model Terminator. His arrival recreates the original movie's opening scenes, including a much younger-looking naked Arnold approaching the 3 punks. Sadly, no Bill Paxton in the scene this time. Ooh, I just realized -- Bill Paxton played the punk leader in the original, and Michael Biehn played Kyle Reese. Two years later, both actors would appear again in Aliens; one of my favorite movies!
This time though, the T-800 never makes it past the punks, nor to the biker bar, because another, older-looking T-800 is there to greet him. "I've been waiting for you." I like how later on in the film they explain why the T-800 looks older, rather than staying the same. Meanwhile, Kyle Reese arrives in 1984, steals some pants from a homeless man, and is accosted almost immediately by a police officer... except, instead of a cop, it's actually a T-1000 model Terminator! Something he's never seen before. The T-1000 is played by actor Byung-hun Lee, doing a passable Robert Patrick impersonation. It seems that just as Kyle Reese is being sent to the past, John Connor is attacked by Skynet, which somehow alters the timeline, dumping Reese into an alternate 1984, where instead of Sarah Connor being a naive young waitress, she's now a hardened woman who has been preparing for this day since she was 9 years old. What?! Kyle is completely confused by things being totally different from the way John has always described his mother, and he finds it very difficult to trust Sarah's friendly T-800, that she calls "Pops".
Once again, the race is on to stop Skynet from going active, but this time, instead of a military program, it's designed as a world-wide networked app called "Genisys" that will connect people's internet devices and phones all together along with all networked computers everywhere. But once live, the already sentient AI will instead take control of the world and begin its mission to wipe out all life on Earth. And if that's not bad enough, a NEW model of Terminator is on hand to stop Sarah & Kyle!
It's a time travel story, so it messes with your head, but the evidence seems to explain how this new timeline comes about. In The Terminator, the T-800's hand & computer ships survives, which what allows Skynet to be created in the first place, this causing the events of T2: Judgement Day. At the end of that film, all Terminator chips and bits are destroyed, so now Cyberdyne doesn't have the technology to create Skynet, which leads to this film where a global all-device networked app becomes the new Skynet. Paradox would imply that sending the T-800 back in the first film is what causes Skynet to be created in the first place, but then how was it created in the first place to make the T-800 to send back?! Ow, my head!
I really enjoyed this film. The callbacks to T1 &T2, the dialog, the scary new Terminator... all this AND J.K. Simmons! Joy. Arnie is back in full form, and supposedly worked out 3 hours a day to get himself back to Terminator standards. I'm not familiar with Emilia Clarke, but she did okay as the new, tough-from-the-start Sarah Connor. (she's either really short or the guys are really tall)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jai Courtney, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke
Scene after the Credits: Yes (actually just after cast scroll, but before crew scroll)
Would I see this again: Yes
Notable Previews: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part2
Bottom Line: Back to the exciting T2 days!
I'd heard this was doing so well at the box office and was concerned, but after seeing it, I'm guessing that trying to compete against Jurassic World and the latest Pixar film stole some of its ticket sales. This is the 5th film in the series, and while 3 & 4 were disappointing, I felt that Genisys brought the franchise back to the excitement of 2nd film.
The movie starts in the future and shows how John Connor & Kyle Reese captured the Skynet base that holds the time machine used to send the Terminator back to 1984. We see Kyle get sent back in time as well as the original T-800 model Terminator. His arrival recreates the original movie's opening scenes, including a much younger-looking naked Arnold approaching the 3 punks. Sadly, no Bill Paxton in the scene this time. Ooh, I just realized -- Bill Paxton played the punk leader in the original, and Michael Biehn played Kyle Reese. Two years later, both actors would appear again in Aliens; one of my favorite movies!
This time though, the T-800 never makes it past the punks, nor to the biker bar, because another, older-looking T-800 is there to greet him. "I've been waiting for you." I like how later on in the film they explain why the T-800 looks older, rather than staying the same. Meanwhile, Kyle Reese arrives in 1984, steals some pants from a homeless man, and is accosted almost immediately by a police officer... except, instead of a cop, it's actually a T-1000 model Terminator! Something he's never seen before. The T-1000 is played by actor Byung-hun Lee, doing a passable Robert Patrick impersonation. It seems that just as Kyle Reese is being sent to the past, John Connor is attacked by Skynet, which somehow alters the timeline, dumping Reese into an alternate 1984, where instead of Sarah Connor being a naive young waitress, she's now a hardened woman who has been preparing for this day since she was 9 years old. What?! Kyle is completely confused by things being totally different from the way John has always described his mother, and he finds it very difficult to trust Sarah's friendly T-800, that she calls "Pops".
Once again, the race is on to stop Skynet from going active, but this time, instead of a military program, it's designed as a world-wide networked app called "Genisys" that will connect people's internet devices and phones all together along with all networked computers everywhere. But once live, the already sentient AI will instead take control of the world and begin its mission to wipe out all life on Earth. And if that's not bad enough, a NEW model of Terminator is on hand to stop Sarah & Kyle!
It's a time travel story, so it messes with your head, but the evidence seems to explain how this new timeline comes about. In The Terminator, the T-800's hand & computer ships survives, which what allows Skynet to be created in the first place, this causing the events of T2: Judgement Day. At the end of that film, all Terminator chips and bits are destroyed, so now Cyberdyne doesn't have the technology to create Skynet, which leads to this film where a global all-device networked app becomes the new Skynet. Paradox would imply that sending the T-800 back in the first film is what causes Skynet to be created in the first place, but then how was it created in the first place to make the T-800 to send back?! Ow, my head!
I really enjoyed this film. The callbacks to T1 &T2, the dialog, the scary new Terminator... all this AND J.K. Simmons! Joy. Arnie is back in full form, and supposedly worked out 3 hours a day to get himself back to Terminator standards. I'm not familiar with Emilia Clarke, but she did okay as the new, tough-from-the-start Sarah Connor. (she's either really short or the guys are really tall)