This movie isn’t
fantastic, but it was okay, and I enjoyed it enough. I’ve seen worse movies get
sequels, so this isn’t a bad watch. But I can understand how hard it can be to
continue watching a franchise when you know the studio is trying to milk the life
out of it. This franchise’s heyday was in the ’80s. One thing I’ll criticize
severely in this movie is the plot. It seems all over the place, and that’s the
thing with time-travel movies—if you don’t keep it simple, you’ll end up with a
lot of plot holes that fans can find very annoying.
The warmth of
having the T-800 (Model 101) back in action and taking the lead after Christian
Bale’s woeful attempt to make a Terminator movie without the Terminator we know
was a highlight. The movie had it all for me: the emotional bond that developed
between human and machine, the action, and the fight scenes, which were more
fluid here than in Terminator
2: Judgment Day (1991).
The choreography was captivating.
It’s arguable
that the TX in Terminator
3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
seemed like a more formidable foe for the T-800 than the T-3000 in this movie,
but that’s just my view.
Wow!!! There’s
no stopping Skynet and the eventual manifestation of Judgment Day. Every time
we see a Terminator movie, Judgment
Day gets postponed, and the Earth is safe for a few more years.
Thanks to scenes
after the credits—yep, there’s going to be a Terminator 6 and
possibly a Terminator 7, as long as this one and the sixth make
enough cash to convince the studio to finish the trilogy.
Here’s how the
movie went: John Connor (Jason Clarke) sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back in
time to save his mother, Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), and become his father in
1984. That’s how the Terminator story usually goes, but things changed this
time.
During the time
travel, Kyle sees John killed by a Terminator (T-5000, played by Matt Smith),
and when he arrives in 1984, there’s another Terminator waiting to kill him—a
T-1000.
Kyle runs and is
saved by Sarah Connor, who introduces him to the T-800 (Model 101), played by
Arnold Schwarzenegger. The past is all messed up, and in this version of 1984,
there’s more than one Terminator running around.
Kyle soon
discovers that when Sarah was nine years old, she and her family were attacked
by a Terminator, which killed her entire family. She was saved by a T-800, whom
she now calls “Pops.” The T-800 raised her and taught her how to defend
herself, preparing her for 1984, where she would meet Kyle Reese.
The mystery in
this plot is: Who sent the T-800 back in time to save Sarah when she was nine?
The plot
continues to thicken, and our three heroes (Sarah, Kyle, and the T-800) must
stop Skynet before it takes over the world.
By the end of the movie, there’s an upgrade in favor of our old T-800 (Model 101), as he’s upgraded to a T-1000 with mimetic poly-alloy (liquid metal). The whole idea was to have him ready for future sequels, but this idea was killed because the movie kind of messed up the whole story with its very convoluted plot.
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