Release Date: July 1st The Plot: Don't feel bad if you have to re-read this one a few times, because whether or not you're a Terminator fan, this is pretty damn confusing. In 2029, John Connor (Jason Clarke) is on the verge of defeating Skynet and sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to the 1980s to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), who is again being chased down by a Terminator, a T-1000 (Lee Byung-hun). It appears that much of Genisys' plot takes place in an alternate timeline, where Sarah was orphaned as a child and raised by a T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) that she refers to as "Pops", and who attempts to prepare her for the future war. Throw in a bunch of lazy references to the previous films, and you've got a new Terminator movie! Why It's Awful: If you're not a Terminator fan, this probably won't interest you one bit, and if you are, it's probably going to p*** you off. Genisys' plot is attempting to do what 2009's Star Trek and the recent X-Men: Days of Future Past did by using time travel to not-so-stealthily reboot the franchise with the same characters in a way that's not quite so jarring to audiences. The problem is that there just doesn't really feel like a need for this: at least Star Trek and X-Men had serious in-universe stagnation issues that needed to be resolved, whereas while Terminator Salvation was hardly a good film, there was no reason Terminator 5 couldn't just be an awesome, 2-hour futuristic version of Saving Private Ryan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62E4FJTwSuc Instead, the original two films fans love are going to be needlessly tinkered with and rendered moot, though the greater likelihood is that fans will simply pretend that Genisys doesn't exist if it sucks. It will be written off as glorified fan fiction, and everyone will just get on with their lives.
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