Terminator Genisys
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: July 1, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
24
Negative:
12
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Slant MagazineJake ColeJun 30, 2015
Terminator Genisys feels like being trapped in a conversation with a child breathlessly recounting the highlights of the preceding movies. Read full review
38
USA TodayBrian TruittJun 30, 2015
Terminator used to be a sci-fi franchise defined by its cool time-travel concept and even better special effects. Unfortunately, it's "Hasta la vista, baby," to those good old days. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 30, 2015
Everything's at stake yet nothing comes to much in Terminator Genisys. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJul 2, 2015
It doesn’t jell, though, and the movie’s philosophical message is especially grating. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJun 30, 2015
Terminator: Genisys is a catastrophic misfire on nearly all counts. It’s only saving grace? 2015 Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) as a Mulder-gone-to-pot-esque cop who believes in these “goddamn time-traveling robots.” Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenJun 30, 2015
Terminator Genisys could be Exhibit A in why the current line of thinking in Hollywood regarding sequels/reboots/remakes often leads to terrible decisions and worse films. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 30, 2015
It’s amusing to see identical Arnolds clash like titans, but nobody here seems to have fully grasped that they had another heavyweight in Mr. Clarke. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJun 24, 2015
Action scenes are accumulated as if mandated by a stop-watch and almost invariably seem like warmed-over versions of stuff we've seen before, in Terminator entries and elsewhere. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 8, 2015
When you’ve already put two sequels to this atrocity into the pre-production pipeline… Maybe you should stop. Or maybe the rest of us, the movie-going, sci-fi loving, “Terminator” adoring public have to be the ones to say it. “This ends here.” Read full review
25
HitfixDrew McWeenyJun 30, 2015
There is nothing about Terminator: Genisys that suggests that this film was a compelling, urgent, essential dream for anyone involved. This is all about squeezing cash out of people who are fond of the original films, calculated and without any of the soul of Cameron's films. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJun 30, 2015
One achievement of James Cameron’s “Terminator” is that it overcame its low-rent, B-movie trappings. The great sin of “Genisys” is that it costs millions and yet isn’t worth a dime. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJul 1, 2015
What could anyone have said of the finished film except that it was finished? Terminator Genisys plays like the worst of all outcomes. Read full review
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