Recommended. Just like "Zombieland: Double Tap", it starts straightaway, right on the producer's logo. Top-notch sound effects. The machines sound ominously scary and the beginning with a terminator squad frightened me. The movie often felt like the original - music themes from "The Terminator" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" are used. But the plot takes a modern twist with the notion of being constantly tracked by GPS in cellphones and cameras and, even more so, with women acting stronger and e.g. exacting an immediate revenge for sexual abuse. It's very international in action and in production including Spain, Hungary and China (Tencent). But still Hollywood quality. The script plays with the series iconic elements like "I'll be back" or dark shades but also the deep, round tank like the vat of molten steel where T-1000 was destroyed by T-800 in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day". It brings in some humour, especialy when T-800 talks about his parenthood. But the plot conveys the idea humanity is doomed anyway since AI is going to exterminate us in the future all of a sudden. At the same time it's just so great seeing Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger (in this order, also in the closing credits) again. Haven't changed that much after all. Ah, and all characters look slim again, thankfully. New characters and the new storyline are clear-cut. No confusion this time. The series has gone back to its roots.No mid- or post-credit.
THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD
Recommended. Painstakingly depicted what it was like to be in World War One: from draft to coming home. What bewildered me was hearing of politeness and amicability in the army, especially that it consisted of volunteers and that trenches excluded any possibility of hygiene: lice, using hands to wipe the bottom after defecating and never washing hands, rats, corpses. The battle is described in minute detail too. Death from a bullet was painless,
wounds and especially limb amputations were feared the most. On return they were largely not understood by the general population. After 1 million lives lost. It's told by British veterans meaning the speech manner isn't emotional. Luckily so - the story is terrifying enough when you think about it from a distance. The song from the end credits stays with you after leaving the cinema.It got me thinking about how wars have changed over the century: have become more civilized for the military staff but WWI didn't affect the civil population at all.
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