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Terminator Genisys

Terminator Genisys

Paramount Pictures (Jul 01, 2015)
Action | Apocolyptic | Dystopian | Science Fiction | Thriller
USA | English | Color | 02:06
#731
9
Blu-ray
032429228703
| 1 disc
Region A

After finding himself in a new time-line, Kyle Reese teams up with John Connor's mother Sarah and an aging terminator to try and stop the one thing that the future fears, "Judgement Day".




When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline. Now, Sgt. Reese finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past, where he is faced with unlikely allies, including the Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger), dangerous new enemies, and an unexpected new mission: To reset the future...



The continuing saga of humanity's war with the machines who are led by Skynet the artificial intelligence that decided that humanity needs to be eradicated. John Connor, the one leading the human rebels against Skynet, has a plan to attack Skynet but decides not to take part in it and opts instead to prevent Skynet from implementing it's contingency plan--to send a terminator to kill the woman who would give birth to John, Sarah Connor. But he fails so he sends his right hand, Kyle Reese who is the one who will sire him, to protect Sarah. And as Reese is leaving he sees John attacked by someone there who is one of Skynet's soldiers. When Reese arrives, he discovers a terminator which is not like the ones he's encountered. He is saved by Sarah who knows who he is and why he is there. He also discovers she has a terminator with her. She tells him that the terminator he encountered was sent to kill her when she was nine and the terminator, with her, was sent to save her and has been her companion and guardian ever since. They intercepted the terminator he followed and plan to use it's chip to activate a time machine they built to go to 1997 which is when Skynet was activated but Reese says they should not go to 1997 but to 2017. He says that there's a voice or memory that tells him to remember the date because it's when they can stop Skynet. So Sarah and Reese go, the terminator stays behind and says he'll meet them when they arrive but they get arrested when they arrive and someone unexpected show up.
- Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com




When John Connor sends Kyle Reese back in time to protect Sarah Connor and become the father of John, nothing is the same as it was set to be. One of the things that is different is that Sarah has her very own terminator who acts like father to her.
When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.




SYNOPSIS:

In the year 2029, John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the Resistance against Skynet launches a massive final offensive on Los Angeles. He is notified by his unit, Tech-Com, that Skynet will attack on two fronts past and future, thereby changing warfare forever. Connor sets up two attack forces, one to strike at Skynet's main defense grid, and a second one, led by John and his trusted lieutenant Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney), to destroy Skynet's main weapon, a time machine hidden at a remote storage facility.

Before the Resistance can reach the machine, Skynet sends a T-800 back in time to 1984 to kill John's mother, Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke). Learning of this, Reese volunteers to go back in time in order to protect her and ensure John's existence. As Reese floats in the machine's magnetic field, he receives fragments of memories belonging to his alternate 12-year-old self (Bryant Prince) with a young Sarah, including a cryptic warning of events in the year 2017. Moments before Kyle disappears, he witnesses one of the Resistance soldiers attacking John.

The original T-800 arrives in 1984 Los Angeles, where it confronts three punks and demands their clothes, as before in the first film. All plays seems to go just like it happened in the first film, that is, until a new, much more aged T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) appears to confront the original. The three punks run away just as the two cyborgs engage in a one on one brawl, with the younger one gaining the upper hand. However, Sarah arrives just in time; saving the new T-800 by shooting the original T-800 before it can finish his rival. Meanwhile, Reese arrives in 1984 and accosts a police officer, taking his pistol and demanding the cop tell him the date and year, just like before in the first film. Unfortunately for Kyle, the cop is actually the T-1000 (Lee Byung-hun), which Skynet has sent back in time to kill him.

Kyle flees before getting detained by two real police officers in a clothing store. The T-1000 kills one of them before attacking the other. Sarah then arrives to save Kyle while holding off the T-1000, who then pursues the duo, but they manage to escape. Kyle finds out that the original timeline has been altered: Sarah already knows about Skynet, Judgment Day, and Reese's role as her protector. More of which, Kyle learns that the T-800 was already dispatched by Sarah and the new Terminator, who is now known as "The Guardian" (or as Sarah sometimes calls him, "Pops"). After a brief argument between Kyle and The Guardian, who loads Kyle into the back of the van with Sarah while taking the wheel, the T-1000 attacks the vehicle. The Guardian and Sarah plan to lure the T-1000 into a trap from a hidden building. From there, the T-1000 disables The Guardian and re-activates the fallen T-800. The T-1000 then pursues Sarah while Kyle fends off the T-800. After destroying its flesh, Kyle finally destroys the T-800 by blasting its face off. Later on, two Kyles approach Sarah, one of which is the T-1000, whom she shoots. Sarah then disintegrates the T-1000 with acid before The Guardian finishes him off for good.

Sarah then explains to Kyle that the Guardian was sent to protect her from the T-1000 back in 1973, where the Terminator's arrival had caused a fractured timeline that differs from Kyle's. After saving Sarah, the Guardian began training her to face her destiny. The Guardian has built a time machine similar to Skynet's and Sarah plans to use it with Kyle to travel to 1997 to change the events that would lead to Skynet's initial attack on humanity. However, Kyle, convinced that the future has changed because of his new memories, persuades Sarah and the Guardian that they should travel to 2017 instead. He believes that Skynet will begin its attack on that year of the altered timeline; Kyle and Sarah time-travel while their Guardian spends the next 33 years preparing for their arrival.

In 2017, Kyle and Sarah materialize in the middle of a busy highway and are apprehended by police. The Guardian watches from a distance and follows them to a hospital. While being treated for injuries, Sarah and Kyle learn about "Genisys", a soon-to-be-unveiled operating system that will be used on every computer system worldwide: they realize that it is Skynet's precursor. She and Kyle are then rescued by what appears to be John Connor. As he leads the pair to a parking garage, the Guardian appears and shoots John, revealing "John" to be a nanomachine hybrid. John has been converted into a T-3000, and explains that shortly after Kyle was sent back, he was infected by a T-5000, and was subsequently transformed. His mission here is to ensure that Cyberdyne would receive Skynet's technology and secure its rise. The T-3000 John tries to convince Sarah and Kyle to join the machines and end the conflict, but they refuse. After a brief battle, the T-3000 is temporarily incapacitated with an MRI machine.

The Guardian takes Kyle and Sarah to a safe house near the Golden Gate Bridge, where they make final preparations to destroy the Cyberdyne's Genisys mainframe before it comes online. The T-3000 pursues them to the Golden Gate Bridge, where Kyle, Sarah, and the Guardian are all taken into police custody. While awaiting interrogation, the trio is freed by O'Brien, (J. K. Simmons), who discovers that Kyle and Sarah are time-travelers, and the officer that Kyle and Sarah saved from the T-800's attack back in 1984. The three hijack a helicopter on the rooftop and head toward the Cyberdyne's San Francisco headquarters, with the T-3000 in close pursuit. During the airborne chase, the Guardian dive bombs into the T-3000's helicopter, causing it to crash.

Emerging from the helicopter crash, the T-3000 enters the Cyberdyne complex and advances the countdown mechanism from 13 hours to 15 minutes. As Genisys begins to gain sentience, the Guardian, Kyle and Sarah plant bombs at key points in the facility while holding off the T-3000. After a lengthy battle, the T-3000 reveals its true self before easily defeating the Guardian, only to be attacked by Sarah and Kyle. With not much time left, Sarah and Kyle escape while the Guardian traps the T-3000 in the magnetic field of the prototype time machine, where T-3000 manages to throw the Guardian into a vat of mimetic polyalloy liquid just beneath the magnetic field. Kyle and Sarah manage to reach a bunker beneath the facility moments before the time machine explodes, setting off the bombs, and preventing Genisys from coming online. The explosion also kills off the T-3000, destroying it once and for all. The Guardian, now upgraded with mimetic polyalloy components that the T-1000 usually has, appears and helps them find a way out of the debris.

Later, the trio travel to young Kyle Reese's home, where they repeat the warning about Genisys to young Kyle, ensuring the events leading to their arrival. Sarah is relieved believing that she is now free to choose what to do with her future. She decides to stay with Kyle.

In a post-credits scene, it is revealed that the Genisys system core was located in a hidden subterranean chamber and has survived the explosion.


Cast View all

Arnnold Schwarzenegger Terminator
Michael Biehn Kyle Reese
Linda Hamilton Sarah Connor
Earl Boen Dr. Peter Silberman
Edward Furlong John Connor
Robert Patrick T-1000
Nick Stahl John Connor
Claire Danes Kate Brewster
Kristanna Loken T-X
Moira Sinise Betsy
Christian Bale John Connor
Sam Worthington Marcus Wright
Moon Bloodgood Blair Williams
Helena Bonham Carter Dr. Serena Kogan
Anton Yelchin Kyle Reese
Jadagrace Berry Star
Bryce Dallas Howard Kate Connor

Crew View all

Director Alan Taylor
Writer Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick Lussier
Producer David Ellison, Dana Goldberg
Musician Lorne Balee

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Edition Release Date Nov 10, 2015

Notes

Is "Terminator Genisys" a reboot? What are its connections to the previous films and the TV series?

As with the 2009 Star Trek film, the intention is to free the series from its earlier continuity. While this film is intended as a direct sequel to the original film The Terminator (and to a certain point, T2/Terminator 2: Judgment Day), the time-travel elements mean it is, essentially, a reboot. The plot of the film involves alternate timelines with the intention that, each time a pathway from the originating timeline is created by time travel, it creates a new universe where events can unfold differently.

For a basic understanding of the series up to and including T5/Terminator Genisys, it is important to understand the cyclic nature of the time travel story inherent to the plots. If we look at the very beginning, it starts with humanity creating an artificial intelligence called Skynet, which betrays mankind by trying to wipe out its human masters. This future war between humans and Skynet is eventually won by the humans led by John Connor. This forces Skynet to send one of its machines, a Terminator, back in time in order to kill Sarah Connor and prevent John from being born. The humans respond by sending one of theirs, Kyle Reese, to protect Sarah and John's birth (he even ensures John's conception). Sarah and Kyle succeed in destroying the Terminator, causing John to be born. So we are back at the beginning again, with John leading humanity to victory in the future war, and Skynet trying to change that. This is how the cycle keeps repeating itself. What causes differences between each iteration is what each party knows about the previous attempt(s). John seems to know a lot of critical information about the war and the machines (as is implied at the beginning of T5, as well as in T4/Terminator Salvation). We can assume the information comes from Sarah, who learned everything from Kyle. Kyle, in turn, experienced a lot during the future war, and has learned much from future John; this process reinforces itself with each iteration, explaining John's increasing strategic advantage with each cycle. Skynet, on the other hand, also becomes smarter. Every time that Skynet goes life, it gets access to all of humanity's digital records. It learns about its time travels and previous attempts to change the future, and upon learning that these strategies failed to kill the leader of the human resistance, Skynet adapts its plans, such as sending more enhanced machines (as seen in T2 and T3/Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines), and even resorting to misdirection in order to get to John Connor (as seen in T4 and T5). As the course of events keeps repeating, each iteration differs from the previous one(s), which can lead to different outcomes or even a break in the cycle at some point.

To start with a simple example, we will assume that the beginning of the 1984 film, The Terminator, showed us the 2029 of the original timeline, Timeline A. Kyle and the T800 were sent from there back in time to 1984, which created Timeline B. The 2029 of Timeline B is shown in the opening of T5. There are noticeable differences with the 2029 of Timeline A (e.g. Kyle is saved by John in a sewer, whereas he was originally freed from a slave labor camp; he still has Sarah Connor's picture, which was long gone in his original time). As before, Kyle is sent to 1984, but Skynet appears not to have been defeated at all; they sent one Terminator (by Sarah's description, a liquid T-1000) further back back to 1973 to kill Sarah, which causes the creation of Timeline C; when Kyle and the original T-800 arrive in 1984, they end up in this altered timeline, and any subsequent events in T5 occur in the 1984 and 2017 of Timeline C.

Note that T2 does not occur in this chain of events, making the placement of the events of T2 a bit odd. However, there is an alternative explanation for this as well. According to the novelization (written by very close, life-long friend of Cameron who was also involved in both Terminator films), the events of T2 were predestined up to the point where the trio arrived at the Salceda Ranch. In the predestined timeline, the trio went down South as planned and waited out the future war there. The writers of this film have acknowledged this in interviews, and confirm the film takes place in a cycle where Sarah did not have her nightmare, and did not try to kill Miles Dyson. Everything up until that point happens in T5. Hence why the T-1000 exists and why facts not previously known until T2 are present. If this theory is followed, the cycle looks like the following:

  1. Timeline A (original) ends with Skynet sending the T-800 to 1984. The Resistance sends Kyle Reese.

  2. The events of The Terminator: T-800 and Reese end up in 1984, Timeline B. Sarah survives and John is born.

  3. Parts of the T-800 are found, which causes the creation of Skynet.

  4. As Skynet goes live years later, it learns of its failed attempt in Timeline A to have Sarah killed. To ensure its own creation, Skynet sends the T-800 to 1984 again; they send the T-1000 to 1995. The Resistance send Kyle to 1984, and a reprogrammed T-800 to 1995.

  5. First half of T2: T-1000 and T-800 arrive in 1995, Timeline C. John, Sarah and T-800 flee south. Skynet goes live, John leads the resistance in the future war. Skynet learns that sending the T-1000 failed as well. It modifies its strategy: it still sends the T-800 to 1984, and lures John by pretending to be defeated. As soon as Kyle is sent to 1984, it kills John and sends a T-1000 to 1973. The remainder of the Resistance send a T-800 to 1973 as well.

  6. The events of T5 in 1984 and 2017, Timeline D. Note that T3, T5 and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles do not occur in this cycle.


In a different chain of events, seen in T2, Sarah had a nightmare at the ranch which made her decide to change the future and kill Miles Dyson. This explains the alteration in the events from that point on. Whether a divine intervention or something else, the dream only occurs in this new cycle, and the events probably occur like the following:
  1. Timeline A (original) ends with Skynet sending the T-800 to 1984. The Resistance sends Kyle Reese.

  2. The events of The Terminator: T-800 and Reese end up in 1984, Timeline B. Sarah survives and John is born.

  3. Parts of the T-800 are found, which causes the creation of Skynet. As Skynet goes live years later, it learns of its failed attempt in Timeline A to have Sarah killed. To ensure its own creation, Skynet sends the T-800 to 1984 again; they send the T-1000 to 1995. The Resistance send Kyle to 1984, and a reprogrammed T-800 to 1995.

  4. The events of T2: T-1000 and T-800 arrive in 1991, Timeline C.

  5. Sarah has a dream and decides to fight back, creating Timeline C2. Skynet is stopped and Judgment Day 1997 prevented. Sarah dies of leukemia; Cyber Research Systems and the US Air Force continue to develop Skynet. Judgment Day still occurs, now in 2004. Through Kate Brewster and her father, John gets into contact with the Resistance. Again, the Resistance wins. Skynet sends a T-800, a T-1000 and a T-X to 1984, 1995 and 2004; the Resistance sends Kyle, a T-800 and a T-850.

  6. The events of T3: T-X and T-850 arrive in 2004, Timeline D2. Judgment Day takes place in 2004.

  7. The events of T4. Realizing that three attempts to kill John via time travel have failed, Skynet uses Marcus Wright to lure John to them. They fail, as John survives with Marcus' heart.


This branching of timelines conforms to the many-worlds interpretation, which states that there are countless different parallel universes, where some events have taken a drastically different turn which changed the chain of events. One such example was described above: Sarah's decision to fight Skynet in T2 created a vastly different new universe. By this logic, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was another branch-off: In Timeline C2, Sarah died of leukemia; in a parallel universe, something happened that caused Sarah to discover her leukemia before she could die from it. Her continued survival is the twist in this particular universe, that, as a result, ran a vastly different course.

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