10 Biggest Mistakes Terminator Genisys Has Already Made

2. Alan Taylor's Directing

Since James Cameron left the franchise in 1991 (does it need to be repeated how long it's been since Terminator was good?) the directors of the sequels have ranged from the impact-less (Jonathan 'who-the-hell-is-he' Mostow) to the actively awful (McG). So at the very least Alan Taylor, who is directing Genisys and potentially its sequels, won't be the worst man behind the camera in the franchise's history. However, that doesn't mean he's an inspired choice for a movie that needs to totally reinvigorate a flailing endoskeleton. Taylor's only previous feature work was on Thor: The Dark World, by far the least distinct movie of Marvel's Phase 2; whereas Iron Man 3 was a Shane Black comedy, complete with a Christmas setting, and Guardians Of The Galaxy was as subversive as you'd expect a James Gunn blockbuster to be, Taylor's offering was formula incarnate, showing the MCU at its most producer-led. It's not a bad movie, but a cut below those released around it. While this doesn't make him a bad director (a fact his work on Game Of Thrones backs up), it does reveal he's terrible at dealing with studio pressures. The Dark World failed to deliver on the promise of a gritty, Thrones-inflected Asgard, instead aping the very Joss Whedon tone of The Avengers because that's what head honcho Kevin Fegie wanted. Check in your hopes of a Terminator with any personality at the door please.