Terminator Genisys: 18 Stupidest Moments In 2015's Dumbest Movie
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It is with a heavy heart that confirmation that Terminator Genisys is as bad as people are saying must be relayed. It might not be enough to kill off the property entire, but it's getting harder and harder to argue that the franchise that provided two of the greatest ever action movies is still worth your money.
It's not the worst film of the year by any means - and rather frustratingly there are some genius moments - but the over-riding feeling when the credits roll is that you've just spent two hours in the company of a vaguely charismatic numb-skull licking batteries.
Nobody should have been expecting it to be a complex thinker of a movie, despite the time travel and multiverse theories that are so key to its mythology, but equally nobody could have imagined it would ever have been this dumb. It's like the script was an after-thought to join the dots between action set-pieces - and at times there's not even half an effort to convince that the writers even cared enough to keep up the pretence.
So which are the worst offending moments in the torrent of stupidity?
18. The Idiotic, Showy Trailers
Say what you want about hype building and attempting to draw in the old Terminator loving crowd by showing off the sequel's commitment to the old tropes and reference points of the Terminator films that didn't actually suck, but the Terminator marketing department need to be fired immediately.
Even if they manage to squeeze enough money out of the film to justify a sequel (it's not a massive stretch considering the amounts made by Jurassic World and Furious 7), the fact that they spoiled such a dramatic twist so early on is unforgivable. And it's not like it was even an accident.
There is another fairly big revelation in there, but it's still nowhere near as grand as John Connor being a machine, and there was literally no need to spoil that fact. All that leads to is an audience who feel betrayed when they go in knowing the magician's best trick and he still pretends it's as worthy of ceremony and circumstance.