What Wright doesn’t realize is that he’s actually a cyborg, a reveal mostly ruined by a marketing campaign that decided to include this discovery in literally every single trailer.īale is uncharacteristically boring as resistance leader Connor, as is Bryce Dallas Howard as his wife Kate, a character introduced in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. The film’s best idea is the character of Marcus Wright ( Sam Worthington), a modern-day convict who suddenly wakes up in the post-apocalyptic future and gets enlisted by John Connor ( Christian Bale). The end result is a giant mixed bag of more bad than good, It breaks out of the “chase movie” template of the other films and instead focuses on the war between Skynet and the human race in the near future. The much-maligned Terminator Salvation, directed by enthusiastic punching bag McG, deserves some credit for being the only one of the Terminator films to truly try something different. This is also the last Terminator movie that was able to apply sufficient makeup to avoid having to concoct an explanation for why Schwarzenegger’s T-800 character, an invincible cyborg, is aging. Terminator 3 was also the first to make the bold decision to completely undermine everything that happened in T2, which became something of a regular occurrence in the Terminator movies (to date, there are three Terminator movies that alter or reboot the events of the original two films). Doubly embarrassing is watching those sequences with the knowledge that at the time of its release, Terminator 3 was the most expensive film ever made. It might’ve seemed edgy and crazy in a cool way back in 2003, but it is nothing short of embarrassing to watch today. Everything else about the upgraded Terminator is absurd, including her ability to morph her arms into Mega Man laser cannons and to inflate her bosom at will. The movie’s most interesting idea is the T-X ( Kristanna Loken), and it’s really only the bare minimum of interesting in that we’re seeing a female Terminator for the first time. Released in 2003 after nearly a decade of franchise dormancy, Terminator 3 is essentially the end result of a bunch of producers getting together and saying, “Let’s make Terminator 2 again!” It’s such a scene-by-scene imitation of T2 that you could probably get away with calling it a parody. This may be a point of contention for Terminator fans, but I think T erminator 3: Rise of the Machinesis a laughably bad movie. It’s absolutely the worst film in the franchise, easily one of the worst films of Schwarzenegger’s long career, and definitely a movie you need to watch immediately just so you can experience it for yourself. It’s an idea someone would’ve pitched for a Terminator Saturday morning cartoon. I really can’t overstate how utterly batshit this movie is. As far as Terminator Genisys is concerned, those movies never happened, and now it’s time to join Sarah and Reese and Grandpa Terminator on a time-hopping sci-fi adventure, which will ultimately involve nanobots and a holographic Matt Smith. The movie completely blows up the first two Terminator movies (which you may recognize as the only two Terminator movies anyone *really* likes) by instantly destroying both the original T-800 and the T-1000 in comically ridiculous ways. But plot twist! Reese arrives to find that Sarah has somehow already mastered time travel, and has thwarted her own assassination with the help of an old reprogrammed T-800 she calls Pops (Schwarzenegger). The movie begins with the events of the first Terminator, with a conspicuously swole Kyle Reese ( Jai Courntey) getting sent back in time by John Connor ( Jason Clarke) to protect Sarah Connor ( Emilia Clarke) from getting roasted by the Terminator. That’s the kind of failure Terminator Genisys is. Imagine Tony Hawk gearing up to do the world’s most incredible skateboarding trick and then getting eaten by a pterodactyl on his way to the event. 2015’s Terminator Genisys, a title you will never spell correctly on the first try, was an attempt to completely reboot the series for a new generation of fans, and whoo boy does it fail spectacularly on every conceivable level.
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