I’m not a big follower of the Terminator genre, and I have a
bit of a problem with a premise based on backward time travel, because of the
time arrow of physics.
Nevertheless, that’s the premise of “Terminator: Genisys”
(directed by Alan Taylor). In 2029, in a
wrecked world, a time machine has somehow been built, and cyborg warrior John
Connor (Jason Clarke) sends an unaged Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) all the way
back to his boyhood home in the coast mountains of California in 1984, to
reinvent himself, protect Sarah (Emilia Clarke) and change the future.
At this point, it’s important to note the first checkpoint
of history. On August 29, 1997, the day
of Princess Diana’s accident and before I started my own move to Minnesota, the
artificial intelligence of our missile silos turned on us and destroyed most of
the country, rather like a Cuban Missile Crisis II. Kyle will get past that and wind up at
another breakpoint in 2017, with a new ally Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger,
back to making movies after paying his dues as GOP governor of California) and
another in an aged O’Brien (Whiplash’s J. K. Simmons).
The nemesis is a company called Genisys, which had started
as a gaming company in 1984, on the new Apple, and become a morph of Google,
Facebook, Amazon and Apple. It was somehow responsible for the 1997 meltdown (a
likely story).
Kyle’s journey back to his youth costs him – his chest hair,
and even arms and legs at times, as if he ha done a Justin Timberlake (or, for
that matter, Freddie Smith in the past on “Days”). The movie also presents some
paradoxes: people meeting their earlier
selves, or kids older than their parents.
There is something like that in “The
Age of Adaline”, as well as, for that matter, “Interstellar”. The whole film has a Christopher Nolan
feel. Hans Zimmer was the executive music
producer for the film, and the music has some of the style of “Inception”, but
there were other composers. Is this a
way for classically trained composers and musicians to make a real living?
The official site (Paramount and Skydance) is here.
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