This is not the droid you're looking for. Take the best of the previous Terminators, add a little Doctor Who and a little bit of Mass Effect, decorate with modern special effects, shake, but not mix and pour it all on the screen. There will be a new Terminator: Genesis in all its glory.
The plot of the film is like a patchwork - a piece from there, a piece from here. When I watched it, I felt like I had seen it somewhere and it was better. Hard-smiling Arnie and a liquid T-1000 with bladed arms from the second film of the franchise, a space-time leapfrog in the spirit of Doctor Who, artificial intelligence that “improves” people like Reapers from a not very distant galaxy ... All of these elements are good in their own right, but the film lacked the style to combine them. The result was an indistinct illogical mix, densely seasoned with pathos and explosions. Spectacular, but completely tasteless.
The Terminator himself was disappointed. In any other film, Schwarzenegger can always be reproached for lack of emotionality and acting at the level of "brick", but, alas, not here. Here he suddenly had emotions, a sense of humor and some inappropriate sentimentality. Of course, he jokes well, sometimes even funny, his aging also has a logical explanation, but this is not the robot I want to see in the movies.
The naiveté of the conflict with artificial intelligence was also bitter. The curious antagonist, who can take any form, crawl into any gadget and embrace the whole world with his tentacles, instead sits obediently in his cradle and waits for the good guys to come to defeat him, of course, hung with weapons and in proud loneliness. Which, however, was quite expected, because this topic rarely receives an appropriate scale implementation. A terrible and terrible artificial intelligence, which, as it often happens to be, considers people superfluous in a perfectly arranged world, turns out to be terrible and powerful only in words and is easily defeated by a small group of people. You can see all the logic of the plot went to explain the old age of the Terminator.
Like most of the remakes and sequels of the popular franchises of the last century, the film is significantly inferior to the original. He has several interesting ideas, but is afraid to develop them and tries to leave on old and proven plot moves. I can't say he's good at it. If you have a special interest in the franchise, you can spend an evening on it, but do not expect a really good film from it.
5 out of 10
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