Clarke and Jai Courtney, who’s been similarly miscast as Kyle Reese, Sarah’s protector and sparring partner. The director, Alan Taylor, has racked up loads of credits in cable TV, but his work here is disappointingly flat, even in the intimate exchanges between Ms. Cameron’s kinetic original while watching this latest reboot lurch from one narratively clotted turn to another. That’s an obvious mistake, simply because you end up toggling between memories of Mr. It’s a performance edged in nostalgia, though if your eyes mist when he utters his famous tagline, it will mostly be because - as in that scene with the dueling cyborgs - this movie foolishly keeps invoking the first film. Schwarzenegger remains the franchise’s greatest attraction and most-special effect, even if he sometimes brings to mind one of those gruffly lovable geezers that older stars can’t resist playing so they can keep basking in our adoration. The largely still impassive, still mighty Mr. It has been doing the same ever since, to the point that in “Genisys,” it has mutated into a blockbuster version of the Tin Man, a machine that accompanies a dystopian Dorothy down a hairpin road with various friends, while chased by digital-age equivalents of screaming monkeys. By the second movie, the Terminator had switched sides and was aiding the human resistance.
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