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Ahnold has made a come back. He has a large role in this one and even kicks his own ass. Of course, anything can happen, right?The movie opens with a brief goodbye to San Francisco then jumps right into it. In the beginning the script does an excellent job of explaining and catching everyone up as to what is going on....then, it gets a bit crazier.
The CGI is excellent as expected and we actually have character development for Ahnold, Conner, Reese, and Sarah. We get a nice dose of J K Simmons and the rest of the cast is good. One thing, we have a rather porky looking Emilia Clarke.
Tons of action require tons of popcorn and soda but not too much as this runs just over two hours. I attended the fist matinee and it was invaded by teams of 20-something guys. Definitely a testosterone affair.
All in all, this was pretty good in comparison to the others. Enjoy.
Edits: 07/02/15Follow Ups:
Thanks! for sharing- I want to see this film.
I was loathing this from what I felt were painfully horrid previews and the 28% fresh rating on rottentomatoes.
Perhaps my expectations being low was part of it but I rather enjoyed this one - better than the previous two (granted that's not saying much) but I also put it ahead of Jurassic World and San Andreas as recent blockbusters.
I'm a Doctor Who fan so the timey wimey stuff was a breeze to follow (and indeed they had Doctor Who himself Matt Smith there to help people just go with it since it's the time travel trope logic). The casting was pretty solid though I would have preferred a better Reese - someone less of a jar-head.
Some of the criticism seems to be over stupid things like "this movie cancels the first two" but those arguments are usually always stupid. The first two were time travel films so of course they could in theory come back to the same time lines.
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...Emilia Clarke was always nice to look at and never disappointing in her role. The plot was a bit convoluted, but stories including multiple lines of time travel always are--witness 'Predestination'. Probably I'll see it again in our big Dolby Atmos theater before it departs there.
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My local paper gave it a devastatingly bad review with Arnold receiving the only positive comments.
-Wendell
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