Rotten
Part of what makes Terminator Genisys so pitiful as an evening out is that all the actors do over and over again is tell us why they're in a particular scene and why the movie exists.
Wesley Morris, Grantland
Terminator Genisys
Reset the future
2015 · 2h 6m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Alan Taylor
Overview
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
Rotten
Of course the special effects are more impressive than ever. But nearly every curveball offered up in this new parallel-universe version of the Terminator world isn't as interesting or as original as the timeline we loved in the first place.
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Terminator: Genisys, however, has none of the stakes, and none of the moral preoccupations, of its predecessors.
Megan Garber, The Atlantic
Fresh
"Terminator Genisys" is the first fully worthy successor to Cameron's original films and it shows Arnold may be old, but he's not obsolete.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
Screenwriters Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier pile on so many pulpy sci-fi conceits -- involving time travel, alternate realities, and the end of civilization -- that you might be carried along by the batty excess.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
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