Movie: Terminator Genisys

I have never tired of Terminator 2, my favourite film of all time, despite never having heard of T1 at the time. Of course I went back to see that and I’m the proud owner of T1 & Judgement Day on VHS, the pack that came in a tin in the early 1990s. There have been terrible Terminator incarnations since the first on in 1984. The their one was terrible because of the female lead and the fourth one was just awful. I don’t actually remember anything about them but felt I had to give them the benefit of the doubt.With Genisys, Terminator is back and watchable, even with the rehash of the same lines uttered in T2, which by the way should only be spoken by  Arnie. Other than that, the criticism is with the seemingly 12-year-old Sarah Conner. She just looks far too young for what’s meant to be a ballsy part. Linda Hamilton she is not!The story is all over the place and there would be no watch-ability without Arnie.Because the franchise is all based on time travel, in the same way as famous Dallas shower scene (it was all a dream), it really doesn’t matter who is alive who should be dead as this is a different future. John Connor has sent back his best mate Kyle Reece to protect his mother yet again but it’s back to before he was conceived, as in T2. In fact it feels like a remake of T2 for 2015 from its 1991 original.It takes a while to get into the bit when John Connor becomes the baddie and his Mum has to stop him (we know this from the trailer) but we get to the Arnie fighting 1984 Arnie pretty quickly. (ditto). But what next, Sarah Connor as the baddie? Or Arnie playing a bad Terminator as in T1 again to come full circle?I figure now that Skynet is Google – it’s trying to take over the world by knowing every thing about us too.It’s a shame there is no decent soundtrack like with Guns & Roses in T2 but my favourite line this time is ‘we take back the world’.We take back Terminator and make a decent (not fantastic) film again. 7½/10Smile factor 8/10