I saw it last night and, at first, I thought there could be some potential to be the 3rd best in the series... Alas, after they travel forward in time to 2017, it became more than clear that this is just another waste of plastic in the 7-11 $1.99 DVD bargain bin basket with the other "sequels".

The concept could have worked, but for some reason they needed to travel to the future to stop yet another version of Skynet with another stupid upgraded Terminator instead of staying grounded in 1984 and doing something much more interesting. I can't wait to see the cinema sins take on this film because, while time travel has always caused paradoxal plot holes, the ones here are insanely huge to be ignored (like, how would middle aged John Connor exist in 2029 if his parents time traveled to 2017 with no plan of going back to 1984 and procreating, Why would Kyle Reese need to go find himself as a child to say that Genisys is Skynet when Genisys doesn't exist anymore. If Genisys/Skynet is busted - but I'm sure it'll come back in SOME form in later sequels - how is college aged Kyle Reese still chosen in 2029 to go back?)

The leads had zero romantic chemistry and they looked and acted more like college students hanging out between seminars than the shell-shocked, hardened warriors of Michael Bien and Linda Hamilton in the earlier films. Not to mention the dialogue. The dialogue... As a teacher of literature, I just. Can't. Stand. Modern. Film. Screenplays. Everything nowadays is just rehashes of tired cliché lines that have been done and redone and redone some more. I could swear that modern screenplays are written by computers from a very small database of one-liners and snarky comebacks.

So there you go. So much potential wasted. Such a shame.