TERMINATOR GENISYS Rather than creating a gritty, intelligent,
Horror Action Movie we have a movie that has got too lost in Hollywood.
It’s like watching a child try on his parents’ clothes and it just doesn’t quite fit.
Just in case you haven’t read the title of the video this is a spoiler review of Terminator
Genisys.
Here we have the fifth film in the Terminator Franchise set in an alternative universe.
I have been rather conflicted with my thoughts on this movie and it is the reason why it
has took me so long to review.
I came to the conclusion that this film isn’t bad, it isn’t good either, but it is watchable.
Who isn’t watchable is the new Kyle Reese!
Jai Courtney the Franchise killer!
Has Jai Courtney even watched The Terminator?
Where was his intensity?
Why would he be built up like that when food is scarce in the future?
Even when he started with the voice over I’m pretty sure everyone in the screening could
hear my internal voice screaming “It’s all wrong!”
I said when he was cast that he is not Kyle Reese and after watching the film I can confirm
he is not Kyle Reese!
Jai Courtney must have one bloody good agent or manager because how they convinced the
casting team of this movie to play one of my favourite characters in movie history I
just don’t know.
Yes, I just made this personal people.
Michael Biehn, or I should say Kyle Reese was one of my first loves.
He is sexy, intense, and courageous and looks like he has been through hell and back because
of the War.
Jai Courtney’s Kyle Reese was just like every other character he has played in the
many Franchises he is in.
Soft, well groomed, Beefcake.
Why not get Anton Yelchin back?
Or even give Topher Grace a go?
He has played Biehn’s son so certainly think he can play his iconic role!
Yeah that’s right, would have certainly been a better choice than that Jai hack!
A little harsh?
Maybe.
But if you love the first two Terminator films the way I do you may feel rather conflicted
with Genisys.
Is nostalgia clouding your judgement?
I have to say the opening of the movie had me hooked from the moment we see the 1980s
digitalised Arnie to Kyle Reese putting on his Nike trainers.
Good attempt by South Korean Robert Patrick as the T-1000 but he just didn’t have the
moves, the ears or the menacing features like Patrick.
My reaction to Robert Patrick is always like the one in Wayne’s World (Scream) Yet in
this film I didn’t feel any kind of terror.
I will give two thumbs up to Emilia Clarke as she has a look of Linda Hamilton and carried
off the strong independent kick ass women well.
As for Arnie, he’s Arnie, of course he was awesome.
Terminator 1 and 2 are utterly terrifying because of the way the robots move and look.
But in Genisys they look like toys.
I just don’t think the 12a rating works for the Terminator films.
They don’t match that dark, scary, gritty nature of the first two movies.
This movie was certainly missing the steamy important sex scene with the memorable hand
release but you are not going to get that from a 12a movie.
What I don’t understand is it relies heavily on you seeing the first and second movie so
how can a child understand what is going on when they are not old enough to yet see the
classics?
In a nutshell this movie sold out by making it a 12a in the hope of making a bit more
money.
The Marketing was really a huge problem for this film seeing as we found out that John
Connor was a Terminator from the trailers!!!
Sack the person who decided that was a good idea!
Nothing was a surprise.
I felt like the film was trying to go Hey!
Did we fool you?
Are you thrilled by the twist and turns?
No not really because you have already shown us every moment from the film in the bloody
trailer!
And I already knew who Matt Smith was going to be playing!
You can try and hide it all you want by leaving his character name blank on IMDB but I am
not fooled.
There was three options here, he was going to be the T-1000, which would have been awesome
by the way, but we already know from the trailers that they got South Korean Robert Patrick.
Second option is that he was going to be the guy that discovered time travel or created
the machine but that would just open up way too many jokes and it would have been journalists
wet dream.
So that leave us with the obvious option of Matt Smith playing Skynet.
Surprise!
Damn marketing!
Skims over the important stuff way too quickly – no time to take it in and doesn’t take
the time to have some really good intelligent dialogue.
For a film that involves robots and time travel give us mere humans time to digest.
One thing is for sure.
It may not have been the best Terminator film but that is never going to happen as I don’t
believe for a second a new movie will ever top the first and second one.
But it is certainly better than the third and fourth!
So the movie may not be a masterpiece or the blockbuster of the year but one thing is for
sure It has everyone talking about it!
When was the last time I talked about a movie for this long too?
Keeping the comment question simple for this review if you are still listening – What
is your favourite Terminator film?