Terminator Genisys: Schwarzenegger is Back
Sheikh Iraj
Terminator Genisys, the fifth installment in the Terminator franchise, was one of the most anticipated movies of this year. One of the prime reasons being Arnold Schwarzenegger comes back to play the Terminator, or T-101, which still remains one of the most popular characters in Hollywood movies. The movie is directed by Alan Taylor, who has a number of critically acclaimed works under his belt, but most of these works were TV shows related. When it comes to movies, he directed four other movies before this and not all of them turned out to be hits in the box office. The movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, J. K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi, Matt Smith, Courtney B. Vance and Lee Byung-hun into the main roles.
The Terminator series always had a cult fan following and Terminator 2 is one of the best cult movies that movie buffs watch over and over again. Some of the audiences found the storyline to be a bit complicated. The online movie review websites were hard on their reviews, they held back very little to show their disappointment. One of the online review reads- Please, Dont Be Back: The Terrible Terminator Genisys Barely Dents an Above-Average Summer. The audiences expected a lot and the trailers promised a lot but it failed to live up to the expectation.
Nevertheless the movie offers 126 minutes of absolute confusion with exceptional action scenes. The confusion and the expectation of some magical scenes make this movie a little less boring and it is one of the reasons that make one seat till the end credit. The budget of the movie is $155 million and it has earned over $224.8 million.
Now this might sound interesting according to internet sources on September 5, 2014, Paramount announced that Terminator Genisys would be the first film in a new stand-alone trilogy, with two sequels scheduled for release on May 19, 2017 and June 29, 2018. On February 24, 2015, Schwarzenegger confirmed that he will return for the first sequel. This means there are another couple of movies in the pipeline so not all hope is lost. The script for this movie was co-written by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier, now whoever is writing the next film has to come up with something especial to win back the hearts of the movie buffs. This might be the worst movie of the Terminator movie series but for the series fans its still something to watch.
