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Terminator Genysis Review


Terminator Genysis

What I liked: What could be better than a movie in which the main characters use all kinds of ridiculous weaponry to try and beat an indestructible cyborg from the future who has an overwhelming grudge against said main characters?  A movie in which the main characters use even more high powered weaponry to fight 4 cyborgs from the future. The shotgun was back, the grenade launching automatic whatever was back, the entire arsenal of a small South American country was back. There were terminators made of liquid metal with knife hands, there were terminators made of the nano-bots from big hero, there were completely indestructible terminators and more destructible terminators. There were explosions and dump trucks and acid and molten metal. Pretty much if you like seeing things get smashed, melted, shattered, or blown up this was pretty cool in an over the top really ridiculous way.
What I didn’t: That being said if at any point during the movie you stop watching the cool explosions long enough to think about the plot it is easy to become confused. For example, when trying to destroy the computer program Skynet before it has a chance to take over the world the main characters have a giant fight involving breaking walls, shooting guns, and exploding stuff in the server room. I am left with some questions. Why does my computer have some many problems when their computer survives having cyborg fights inside it? Couldn’t you just pull the plug? How did they manage to not pull the plug while breaking down walls? Why not open the program and and a few commas or an extra parentheses, this would completely destroy the program and sufficiently punish whoever was coding it with years of debugging. Some other concerns: Who was that cop? he keeps showing up and acting like we should know him, I don’t know him. The love story was bleck. The cg on young schwarzenegger was not good, he looked all plasticy. Ok he looks plasticy now but I think back then he wasn’t plasticy yet. In the update to our not-cold-war-world the main threat from skynet shifted from nukes to iphones. I’m sorry, but a phone that breaks if you get it wet is not as intimidating as a nuke. Finally, whoever was in charge of Terminator R+D made a major error. Or I guess at least 200 major errors. The Terminator is a model 800 but successfully beats all later models up to and beyond model 1000. So why in the development of murderous cyborgs would you ever downgrade to something weaker, dumber, and easier to beat. I feel like the machines were not clear on the concept of “new and improved.”
Who should watch this: everyone who likes the Terminator or people who like ridiculous explosions
Would I watch it again? sure.
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