Every Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Ranked Worst To Best

33. Terminator: Genisys

Terminator Genisys Arnold Schwarzenegger
Paramount Pictures

We should've all known that Terminator Genisys would be bad based on its stupidly spelled title alone, but hey, the return of Schwarzenegger to the franchise promised great things! And, for his part (as is a running theme with even his lower-tier works) he does really well with the material provided, slipping back into the metal endoskeleton for the first time since 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

Where Genisys comes stuck is in its messy plot, which relitigates the events of James Cameron's original film without providing a compelling reason as to why, and only gets more and more convoluted as it progresses. Truly, the worst Terminator film to date.

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