When I saw the trailer for Terminator Genisys I was skeptical about how good the film was going to be. This is what I believe to be the major cause of the 26% rating it had on Rotten Tomatoes at the time I saw it. Once the 4th of July festivities died down I decided to give it a watch. Now I cannot say that the film deserves its 26% but I can say it was a bad movie.
Now to the movie's credit it does have some fans that support the film, even the director of the first two films James Cameron (yes that James Cameron) advertised his support for the movie and I know why. The idea for Terminator Genisys sounds really good: Kyle Reese is sent back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor from being killed by a cyborg assassin so that she can give birth to the savior of mankind in the war against the machines in the near future, John Connor . But when Reese arrives in 1984 he finds that Sarah is not the defenseless woman from the first film but rather the bad ass soldier that we saw in Judgment Day. Add in to the plot a twist that Skynet sent back a Terminator that has nano-byte technology and looks like John Connor and it sounds like it would be a good film worthy of the Terminator franchise. However, the movie going public got a James Cameron-less Terminator movie again because the last three Terminator movies did so well without him (sarcasm).
What we got was a semi decent action film at best. Arnold Schwarzenegger puts in the best performance as the T-800, who raises Sarah after her parents are killed by an unknown assassin. The actors that portray the Connor family are also good but it all goes wrong with the casting of Kyle Reese. Jai Courtney plays the main hero and he reminds me of Anakin Skywalker, always whining and very unlikeable. It also does not help that he shares no chemistry with Sarah Connor so the romance is non believable. But the worst part of the film actually happened even before its release, the advertising. After only one trailer the advertising showed off the big plot twist about John Connor and showing off all the big moments in the film. When I was siting in the theater it felt I was waiting for all the moments shown in the trailers to happen. It got so bad that I left the theater to see what was happening with Mad Max and Jurassic World. It beats sitting and watching Genisys.
Once the film was nearing its end I left before the credits could even start and that's coming from someone who stays after Marvel movie credits. I feel if James Cameron got his hands on the project it could have been better than Judgment Day but unfortunately I have to settle for what I got and what I have is a sub-par action movie with a few enjoyable parts but overall it's still predictable and boring, the worse crime an action movie could commit. It doesn't deserve a 26%, more like a 40%. It's not god awful but it should be avoided. Hopefully the next sequels can live up to the T-800's moto: "Old, but not obsolete".
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