There's a swift recap of the war against the machines: the humans have won, Skynet's defence grid is smashed, but it still has one trick up its homicidal-computer-network equivalent of a sleeve-a time machine. It's a plight that non-Michael-Biehn audiences should find sympathetic, as we pause briefly to wonder if we even have a credible Michael Biehn substitute in 2015. We open with an introduction from Jai Courtney's Kyle Reese, as he struggles to get to grips with not being Michael Biehn. Terminator: Genisys isn't really a straight sequel: it takes something of a Back To The Future Part II approach to the time-travel aspects of the plot, while in terms of how it deals with existing continuity the closest reference point is probably the 2009 Star Trek reboot. Both Salvation and Rise Of The Machines have been purged from this timeline, presumably because neither of them were any good whatsoever. Terminator 2: Judgement Day is still considered by anyone with a brain and functioning sense organs to be one of the greatest action blockbusters of all time, and now, 24 years later, we finally have a third entry in the franchise. It took seven long years for 1984's The Terminator to spawn a sequel.
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