When “The Terminator” came out in the early 1980’s, it hit like a bomb, a low-budget B-movie about a time travelling killer machine, expertly made, blending a chase thriller with science fiction and horror, and it was an instant success. It spawned a fantastic sequel almost a decade later which helped usher in a whole new era of special effects, and then…well, and then more sequels kept happening. They got goofier, sillier, dumber, not as impressive, and somehow worse with each new installment. Here we are in 2015 with the fifth film in this unkillable franchise, and it appears that “Terminator Genisys” just may be the worst of them all.

The story ties directly into the plot of the first movie, in that this film’s set up starts with Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) being saved by John Connor (Jason Clarke) and becoming his right hand man in the war against the machines, and how John Connor leading mankind to victory against the machines directly led to the start of the events in “The Terminator.” Kyle Reese gets sent back in time to save John Connor’s mom Sarah (Emilia Clarke) from the T-800 sent back to her kill, but when he gets to 1984, he finds that events aren’t happening as he expected them to because the timelines have been changed. Skynet has been sending back Terminators to different times to try to stop mankind from having a shot in the future against the machines, and this has changed everything. Sarah was saved by a Terminator when she was nine, and it raised her and trained her so by 1984 she was already a bad ass and really didn’t need Kyle Reese except to maybe father her child so John could be born. And also she plans to travel to 1997 in order to stop Skynet before it goes online and destroys the world, but for some reason Kyle knows they need to go to October 2017 to the true start of Skynet so they can stop them then.Continue Reading …