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Terminator Genisys Failures by Nobody: 8:40pm On Aug 13, 2016
The time travel is nonsense…

The original Terminator films pivoted around time travel but weren’t necessarily enslaved by it. Instead, it functioned more as a means to an end, a way of setting up the simple action film premise of ‘killer robot pursues woman/man/kid, woman/man/kid must try to survive .’ Genisys, however, is like every episode of Doctor Who happening at once.
---It begins in the far-future, with John Connor having just destroyed Skynet, but too late to stop it sending back the T-800 of the original 1984 film. This, of course, prompts Conner to send his good friend Kyle Reese back in time to save (and bonk) his mother. So far, so familiar. But it’s when Reese gets there that we learn that (for some reason) the timeline has split in two, with Reese now suffering flashbacks from an alternative universe in which he never grew up under the machines.
The script is boring and unfunny…
You can forgive a stupid story if the script is funny and entertaining (Jurassic World could barely tie its own shoe laces but at least it had pace and personality). Terminator Genisys is brutally dull. It’s a big dumb lump of a thing that just sits there, waiting to die.
This radiates from everywhere. The action scenes offer nothing new. The script is cliche after cliche. Beyond a half-decent knob gag from Arnie, it’s bereft of humour. Which is not to say it doesn’t try to be funny – it does. But Terminator Genisys’ idea of a gag is saying something like “time travel makes my head hurt” after a long, jargon-filled piece of exposition. They may as well have had Arnie throw in a “I’m getting too old for this shit” and be done with it.
It doesn’t know who it’s for
Terminator Genisys is so needlessly complicated that it will only make sense to those who’ve seen the original films. That, of course, would be totally fine if it was a direct sequel, but it’s being marketed as a fresh take on thehttp://thetechlicense.com/2016/05/terminator-genisys-failures/
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Re: Terminator Genisys Failures by Nobody: 2:06pm On Aug 14, 2016
which then affects the actors
More often than not, actors are only as good as the material they’re given. This is especially true for Emilia Clarke, who might as well be juggling sand. With so little to work with, she seems to overcompensate; her (rather good) Linda Hamilton pout breaking apart only to bark action cliches lines like “rule this!” in the style of someone who’s never said “rule this!” in their life. “Old, but not obsolete” Arnold Schwarzenegger fares better, giving the film its only flashes of personality and humour; which, considering that he plays an emotionless robot, is saying something.

From Die Hard 5 to Jack Reacher, Hollywood has been trying very hard to make Jai Courtney a thing. But, as Kyle Reese, he might have reached his nadir as the blandest actor working in film today; a man who could take any role and turn them into Some Guy. With Genisys it’s no different. In fact, it might even be worse. At least in previous films he didn’t have a bloke playing an actual robot that you could compare him to.
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