Jul 14, 2015 03:05 PM
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Terminator Genisys s the fifth movie in the Terminator(Tm) franchise, but in terms of continuity actually functions well as a sequence to the second Tm movie, T2. It has receive some bad press, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a fun movie to watch.
The first 30 minutes or so of the movie is similar in many ways to the first two Tm movies, with many of the same characters. However, there are changes, the nature of and reason for them being slowly explained as the movie goes on. This movie added a lot of depth to many of the characters and in that sense was more similar to T2 than to the first Tm movie.
The acting was not academy award winning level, but I do not think many people go to movies like this looking for the greatest acting in the world. However, all of the main cast do a nice job of making their characters interesting and generally believable, within the confines of the fictional universe they inhabit.
Not surprisingly the movie has some great action sequences. The action was non-stop enough to make the character interaction moments sometimes too brief, but the movie still had a recognizable plot with some cool twists along the way.
I saw this movie twice, once standard format and once in 3D. As is often the case in many recent movies the 3D was okay, but in my mind not worth the higher ticket price.
My own take on the Tm movies is that the first was good, the second(T2) was a classic of the action/SF genre, but the third and forth movies were not up to the same level of T2. Terminator Genisys is a great follow on to T2, with homages to it, but telling an exciting story of its own. Not quite to the level of T2, but still a fun movie to watch!
