Terminator Genisys
Tags: good versus evil, humor, murder, sci-fi, flashback

Plot synopsis:
In the year 2029, John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human Resistance against Skynet launches a massive final offensive on Los Angeles. He is notified by his unit, Tech-Com, that Skynet will attack on two fronts in the past and future, thereby changing warfare forever. Connor sets up two attack forces, one to strike at Skynet's main defense grid in Colorado, and a second one, led by John and his trusted lieutenant Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney), to destroy Skynet's main weapon, a time machine hidden at a remote storage facility.Before the Resistance can reach the time machine, Skynet sends a T-800 terminator back in time to 1984 to kill John's mother, Sarah Connor. Reese volunteers to go back in time in order to protect her and ensure John's existence. Moments before Kyle disappears, he witnesses a cyborg posing as a Resistance soldier suddenly attack John. As Reese floats in the machine's magnetic field, he receives fragments of memories belonging to an alternate 12-year-old version of himself (Bryant Prince) with a young Sarah, including a cryptic warning of events that will happen in 2017.Both Reese and the original T-800 arrives in 1984 Los Angeles. The T-800 materializes near a garbage truck, and goes to the Griffith Park Observatory, where it confronts three punks and demands their clothes, as before in the first film. All seems to go just like it happened in the first film, that is, until a new, much more aged T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) appears to confront the original. The three punks run away just as the two cyborgs engage in a one on one brawl, with the younger one gaining the upper hand. However, just as the younger T-800 is about to finish the older one off, a sniper allied with the T-800 shoots it from the observatory's roof, disabling its onboard computer.Meanwhile, Reese materializes in a back alleyway. He steals a pair of pants from a homeless man. Moments later, a police car arrives and its officer chases Reese into the alleyway. Reese corners the officer, taking his revolver and demanding to know the date and year, just like before in the first film. Much to Kyle's astonishment, the cop reveals that he knows Reese was to arrive at that precise time. Reese fires several shots at the officer, revealing that it is a T-1000 terminator. The shots stall the T-1000 long enough for Reese to escape into a nearby department store, where he grabs some new clothing. While fleeing, he inadvertently runs into two officers, Garber and O'Brien, who subdue and handcuff him.Garber and O'Brien lead Kyle away in handcuffs, failing to see the T-1000 emerge from a dressing mirror. It impales Officer Garber through the back. Kyle and O'Brien manage to take cover behind another counter. Just when it seems like their luck is about to run out, an armored van driven by Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) bursts through the storefront, and knocks the T-1000 out of the way. She then empties a Desert Eagle pistol into it, stalling it long enough for Reese to get into the truck with her ("Come with me if you want to live!!"), and then drives off.As they drive, Kyle finds out that the original timeline has been altered: Sarah already knows about Skynet, Judgment Day, and his role as her protector.Furthermore, Kyle learns that the T-800 sent from 2029 was already dispatched by Sarah and the new Terminator, who is now known as "The Guardian" (or as Sarah sometimes calls him, "Pops"). As Kyle is taking in the new revelations, the T-1000 attacks the vehicle. The Guardian and Sarah plan to lure the T-1000 into a trap from an abandoned factory. From there, the T-1000 disables the Guardian and re-activates the fallen T-800. The T-1000 then pursues Sarah while Kyle fends off the T-800. After destroying its flesh, Kyle finally destroys the T-800 by blasting its head off. Moments later, Sarah finds herself in a chamber beneath an acid bath set up as a trap for the T-1000, when she's approached by two Kyles. Unsure which Kyle is the actual Kyle and which one is the T-1000, she takes a lucky guess and shoots one of them in the foot. By sheer luck, it's the T-1000, which morphs back into its cop form. After yelling to the real Kyle to run, Sarah fires at the ceiling, unleashing an acid bath on the T-1000. The terminator is mostly melted, although it takes some assistance from the Guardian to do so (and not without damaging the flesh on the Guardian's right arm).Sarah then explains to Kyle that the Guardian was sent to protect her from the T-1000 back in 1973, where the Terminator's arrival had caused a fractured timeline that differs from Kyle's. After saving Sarah, the Guardian began training her to face her destiny. The Guardian has built a time machine similar to Skynet's and Sarah plans to use it with Kyle to travel to 1997 to change the events that would lead to Skynet's initial attack on humanity. However, Kyle, convinced that the future has changed because of his new memories, persuades Sarah and the Guardian that they should travel to 2017 instead. He believes that Skynet will begin its attack on that year of the altered timeline; Kyle and Sarah time-travel while their Guardian spends the next 33 years preparing for their arrival.In 2017, Kyle and Sarah materialize in the middle of a busy highway and are apprehended by police. The Guardian watches from a distance and follows them to a hospital. While being treated for injuries, Sarah and Kyle learn about "Genisys", a soon-to-be-unveiled operating system that will be used on every computer system worldwide: they realize that it is Skynet's precursor. She and Kyle are then rescued by what appears to be John Connor. As he leads the pair to a parking garage, the Guardian appears and shoots John, revealing "John" to be a nanomachine hybrid. John has been converted into a T-3000, and explains that shortly after Kyle was sent back, he was infected by a T-5000, and was subsequently transformed. His mission here is to ensure that Cyberdyne would receive Skynet's technology and secure its rise. The T-3000 John tries to convince Sarah and Kyle to join the machines and end the conflict, but they refuse. After a brief battle, the T-3000 is temporarily incapacitated with an MRI machine.The Guardian takes Kyle and Sarah to a safe house in southern Marin County, where they make final preparations to destroy the Cyberdyne's Genisys mainframe before it comes online. The T-3000 pursues them to the Golden Gate Bridge, where Kyle, Sarah, and the Guardian are all taken into police custody. While awaiting interrogation, the trio is freed by O'Brien, (J. K. Simmons), who discovers that Kyle and Sarah are time-travelers, and the officer that Kyle and Sarah saved from the T-800's attack back in 1984. The three hijack a helicopter on the rooftop and head toward the Cyberdyne's San Francisco headquarters, with the T-3000 in close pursuit. During the airborne chase, the Guardian dive bombs into the T-3000's helicopter, causing it to crash.Emerging from the helicopter crash, the T-3000 enters the Cyberdyne complex and advances the countdown mechanism from 13 hours to 15 minutes. As Genisys begins to gain sentience, the Guardian, Kyle and Sarah plant bombs at key points in the facility while holding off the T-3000. After a lengthy battle, the T-3000 reveals its true self before easily defeating the Guardian, only to be attacked by Sarah and Kyle. With not much time left, Sarah and Kyle escape while the Guardian traps the T-3000 in the magnetic field of the prototype time machine, where T-3000 manages to throw the Guardian into a vat of mimetic polyalloy liquid just beneath the magnetic field. Kyle and Sarah manage to reach a bunker beneath the facility moments before the time machine explodes, setting off the bombs, and preventing Genisys from coming online. The explosion also kills off the T-3000, destroying it once and for all. The Guardian, now upgraded with mimetic polyalloy components that the T-1000 usually has, appears and helps them find a way out of the debris.Later, the trio travel to young Kyle Reese's home, where they repeat the warning about Genisys to young Kyle, ensuring the events leading to their arrival. Sarah is relieved believing that she is now free to choose what to do with her future. She decides to stay with Kyle.In a post-credits scene, it is revealed that the Genisys system core was located in a hidden subterranean chamber and has survived the explosion.

Review: As the tough 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 incredible turn of deeds creates a fractured time-line .
I probably won't be watching it like 30 times like Judgement Day, but its not like I expected it to ever live up to Cameron's work....First off, the action was good and so was the pace, the film never became boring even with how complex the story was so it certainly gets points for that.The film itself runs like the greatest hits of the the franchise which is both good and bad.
Overall: It's no Judgement day but you know what, it was actually a decent film and it was great to see Arnie as the Terminator again, and not saying "talk to the hand" .
In 1984, fans of sci-fi with action were surprised by "Terminator", one of the best films of this genre in the cinema industry.
Rise of the Machines started the series' decline and had its faults but also had some good things that made it better than its reputation, while Terminator Salvation although with its moments was even more disappointing.
The rest of the cast are not good at all, with Jai Courtney being by far the worst actor for Kyle Reese of the series in a performance that is both insipid and annoying (which didn't entirely surprise me seeing as out of the little I've seen of him he's always struck me as a lazy actor with an arrogant ego).
It's also very dull, not just because of the leaden pacing but because there is not much new and little interesting is done with the ideas presented in the film and it completely lacks atmosphere, thrills, mystery or suspense, and any drama is both heavy handed and lacking in heart.Direction from Alan Taylor is lazy, favouring spectacle over depth and story and character development.
The ending also felt incredibly forced and tacked on.Overall, Terminator Genisys was a pretty poor and disappointing film, and is by far the worst of the Terminator franchise.
The battle scenes play homage to the aesthetic and look of the future wars in the 1st two movies.Emilia Clarke did a pretty good job of playing Sarah Connor although she might have been a little softer looking than Linda Hamilton, I think the justification of the plot makes you understand a little more of how and why she is the way she is.I'll tell you what they didn't do in this film.
I won't lie, to date no terminator movie after T2 has even come close to making me feel exited watching it the first time the way T2 did, until now.I thought this latest movie was fantastic, and I was not alone.
The newest entry to the Terminator franchise, strives with towering efforts to reclaim the glory of its two James Cameron-directed predecessors, but miserably fails to deliver even a faint hint of wit and sense, in the wake of its convoluted confusion-infested time-travel narrative.In this fifth installment, ill-wittedly conceived and called GENISYS, The Terminator is definitely back, but his legacy is dead, butchered to bits of rusty metal junks through lazy and uncreative reinvention of its original source material.
At the time, Sarah is already being protected by her guardian terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), whose reasons of arriving in her time, is seemingly set to be never known.Time-travel has always been a fascinating subject, and it in such fashion that Terminator: Genisys, attempts to build its own stronghold in the mold of the first two films.
It hurt me, Im genuinely distraught.When I heard they were producing a new Terminator I was apprehensive, what started out as a once great franchise has been marred with misgivings for quite some time but I wanted to believe it could be something again.
At the very least I was expecting some thrills and a mildly entertaining action film, what I got was a train wreck of muddled plot points, illogical structures and a complete crumbling of a much beloved film franchise.Im a fan of the Terminator franchise, while 3 and Salvation are often considered pretty dire, I honestly thought thats as low as you could get but this film s*&ts all over those two.
The problem is this movie markets itself as the third true sequel of the early Terminator films, so it's not unreasonable to expect it to be on the same level as the other two.
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.
The story takes places primarily in three different times, but its not too hard to follow if you pay attention.Bottom line: If you liked the first two movies, you will enjoy this one.Watch for a scene at the end of the credits.
The battle scenes play homage to the aesthetic and look of the future wars in the 1st two movies.Emilia Clarke did a pretty good job of playing Sarah Connor although she might have been a little softer looking than Linda Hamilton, I think the justification of the plot makes you understand a little more of how and why she is the way she is..
Jason Clarke and Jai Courtney played John Connor and Kyle Reese brilliantly with each stepping easily into the role and exploring sides of the character we have never seen before.
The CGI in this film is also outstanding, it's great to see just how realistic the terminator world looks in 2015 (especially seeing how cgi has made the T- 1000 even more bad-ass)!
Terminator Genisys offers new, excellent cast members to the series and new fans may really enjoy the film, but I was kind of disappointed that it was mostly a rehash.
Since it played a lot on the stories, characters and humor from those two movies.Also liked that they stayed true to the Terminator-universe in both story/time line and technology shown in "the future"-part..
Man, if you care about your childhood favorite movies, every time there's a new installment there's a great hype about it, but if George Lucas teach us something from the Phantom Menace, it's that sometimes is better for fans to leave a franchise rest in peace (even if the producers disagree).
Example: there's a scene that looks like a musical (or any STOMP show), and i'm not kidding.But, the BIGGEST, the WACKIEST thing they did to the WHOLE TERMINATOR FRANCHISE is...renaming the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) as: POPS.
Only one thing is watchable in this film which is Arnold Schwarzenegger,he did a great job.Action scenes are copied from first two terminator films,everything is CGI so nothing has intensity of any kind.That Bus chase scene is hilarious beyond levels!Director Alan Taylor who made Thor 2,thought that it is another dumb Marvel film,He made characters like T800,T1000,John,Sarah Conner,Kyle Reese look like 10yr old kid.Just a Pure Bad movie!.
Previous terminator movies contained a powerful inspiring character who make "Arnold Schwarzenegger" a house hold name, a Governor and in Genisys, its replaced by a weird looking, horrible man who don't inspire at all.
The story may be a bit confusing for some people, but as a fan of time travel movies I was happy, I mean I like doctor who so this was child's play for me.
I don't want to get too much into it but the two things that stand out from the story for me was the connection between Sarah Connor and the T800 and also the 'twist' of John Connor becoming the main villain (this is a curse with this franchise, moments that would have been awesome twists in the movies are shown in the trailers).
Hopefully we won't have to see him again in future installments...Overall this is a great action movie, not as good as Mad Max, but much better than Jurassic World!
The storyline was good and as others mentioned, Arnold's (the Terminator's) ability to relate with Sarah and other humans was often humorous and handled very well, adding to an already enjoyable movie.
I wouldn't be surprised if it gets rated r in a few days.When you go into this movie I highly recommend you see at least the first movie as there is a lot messing with the time line and I'm just going to say that as the rest would spoil the movie.Arnold's Performance is the best, I found myself laughing my butt off at some of the stuff he says.
Ultimately a little of each of the previous Terminator films were sprinkled throughout, some even combining them all together at once.The action was pretty effective throughout the two hour and five minute running time, lots of cool explosions and sound editing was pretty amazing.
Visually there were ups and downs, but nothing like I was prepared for.Overall, I really did have a blast watching "Terminator Genisys.The costars – including Byung-Hun Lee as the new T-1000, Matt Smith, JK Simmons, and Courtney B.
But it's really the action set pieces, massive detonations, and all-out hand-to-hand combat that are the real stars of Terminator Genisys.The blend of top-notch CGI, realism, stunts, and breakneck pace keep all the exploding balls in the air, and the 3D is blissfully easy on the eyes.'ve always loved the story and the time travelling aspect, this did the trick and I believe did a justice to the series even though most would disagree with me there.
It shows what must have happened in the future of the first Terminator Moovie: it gives us a great image of that, even though this version of John Connor looks like "Ugly Lenny" - The bass Player of the Punk Rock band "Social Spit".
If you've seen the previous Terminator movies, all of which I absolutely loved, I think you'll be very disappointed with this unoriginal and derivative addition to the series.
(Emilia Clarke looks like she's struggle with a heavy handbag) Basically nobody making this movie gives a rats if the film is any good, they just know it will make money.
"Terminator Genisys" is one more movie about terminator but in this we watch John Connor sending Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future.
Although if you are not a fan of terminator I also believe that you are going to like it because it combines very well all the previous information that we have from the previous movies of terminator and the result which comes from it is simply very good.
Arnold Schwarzenegger for one more time was very good in his part as the protector - guardian and I also liked the interpretation of both Emilia Clarke and Jai Courtney.
Last but not least Jason Clarke made a very nice interpretation too.To sum up I believe that "Terminator Genisys" is a very interesting movie to watch with plenty of action and many twists.
But Alan Taylor proved me very wrong, this is the best terminator film I've seen in many many years!When I look at my favorite of the franchise, T2, the things that made it a huge success is the following.
Emilia was fine but the character wasn't as tortured as she was in T2 and that is part of the story and that Emilia plays more of a full on brute force, then a tortured women with emotional and physical scars.At the end of the day, if you like the first two terminator films you should watch this.
The story is a bit hard to understand at first with all the different time-lines and time travelling but overall it's a very enjoyable movie with good and also pretty funny script and action.
Plot with twists I liked to follow, action that is understandable yet sci-fi-styled and of just right amount, very respectful usage of T1/T2 material, nice cast of actors (though I'd prefer another Reese - Emilia and Arnie were great), all seasoned with a humour.Reminded me of Men in Black 3 - that was also much better than I thought it would be..
With enough allusions to former Terminator lore to please serious fans of the genre, along with great plot twists and as-expected awesome special effects, I wasn't disappointed.
Like a lot of time travel movies, I may need to watch some parts again to completely understand what's going on with "loops" and all the "time travel rules," but, for the most part, I thought it was fresh.
Still, this is a creditable piece of writing that attempts to change a constant that runs through the past four films - the John Connor genealogy.The movie feels bogged down by having to explain all the time travel mumbo jumbo (as usual, it gave my wife a headache and she couldn't keep up) in uncreative ways.
this was the best since part 2 and it's really a reboot which is a retelling of the first 3 films as it reffers to things happened in first two films mostly but also part 3 is not completely ignored.only salvation is ignored.A fresh new take with arnold at his best and the action and suspense are constant and u never get bored.the new sara connor is very beautiful and talented and u like kyle and john too.there are twists and all in all if u are a fan of those films u will love this one which is a great improvement over the previous salvation film which was the worst terminator film even worst than part 3.the only flaw in the film is that it repeats the same terminator formula which after 4 films may get u tired but that was to be expected.The film was excellent and that counts the most..
OMG this new Terminator film is amazing, fantastic alternative time- line to the original film, great writing and acting.
This is terminator at its best and a new beginning for the fans, looking forward to the other two movies that follow this movie in 2017 and 2018.Stay till the end credits because it's not ended.Emilia Clarke is amazing in this film, perfect look and double of the original.
Arnold is fantastic for comic relief and they did a great job of not letting his age effect action sequences.I saw it with 5 people and all of us were confused by the poor reviews we had heard prior to seeing it after seeing it, we all liked it a lot..
And probably that is at fault too, cause at no time did I really buy into these new-look terminators.I think I speak for a lot of people when I say the franchise stopped with T-3, and the rest have all been failed attempts at building on a wonderful movie franchise..
In a film about time-traveling terminators to kill of people in the past to change the future, would you not expect something like what we have here?
And used dialogue that was sparing and to the point.The dialogue in TERMINATOR GENYSIS is reminiscent of an early 1980s network TV show, with scenes between Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor that are SO BAD the producers of THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL would have laughed them out of the writer's room.And then, to top it all, the third act of this travesty actually asks us to care for the plight of these people when the movie has done nothing to earn it.
Sending a Terminator back in time to 1984, to kill Sarah Connor(Emilia Clarke) to prevent John from ever being born.
Like James Cameron mentioned a couple of weeks ago in an interview, Terminator Genisys has all of the great characters that were in the first two films.
I'm pretty sure that the Terminator fans have had imaginations (deep down in their back-head) about how it would be like if a T-800 was sent back to 1984 to stop the T-800 which was programmed to kill Sarah Connor or to see how Kyle Reese manages to fight against T-1000.
on to this amazing movie!I felt the movie was easily a 8.5 to 9 out of 10.The effects, story lines, acting are all on par and most importantly - they follow the flow and feel of the original Terminators which makes it such a huge success.To those "critics" that were confused by the time-travel aspects of the film..
The movie does explain it very well and hey, if you think it is too crazy or confusing then you cannot appreicate what the terminator and Skynet is all about.To those "critics" that thought Arnold is too old for this role..
The only decent performance is by Jason Clarke as John Connor and that's probably by default In summary TERMINATOR GENISYS is a cynical money making exercise by Hollywood to ditch the previous movies and start all over again .
I think that what it comes down to, is whether or not you are a true fan of Terminator one and two.I am 43, and Those first two films still rank in my top ten all-time movie favorites.
Sure it's impossible to imagine a Terminator film without Schwarzenegger but what the writers have done with his character here is too painful to watch and if this is any indication, it's only going to get worse in future instalments.Emilia Clarke takes the coveted role of Sarah Connor and does put in some effort but she is no Linda Hamilton.
But after their victory they discover that a T-800 (played by a CG Arnold Schwarzenegger and a body double) has been sent back in time to 1984 in order to kill Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and they send Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to protect her.
But in trying to do this it feels more like a homage to the Terminator films than it does a new instalment.