Terminator: Genisys
I had very low hopes for this movie after Terminator: Salvation but this movie has resurrected the series for me. Salvation was a slog through a plot that didn’t really matter since we already knew about the human looking terminators and that Skynet would be defeated someday. Genisys takes the story back to what was good about the first two movies: traveling through time to kill Sarah Conner. It doubles down on that by introducing two more plots to kill her and a guardian terminator called Pops. What could have been a confusing mess is handled well enough to be fun action movie. Rating 4/5
American Ultra
This movie was much more violent than the trailer led me to believe. I expected a bumbling stoner clerk with “super spy” abilities. What I got was closer to Kill Bill than Clerks. Still not a bad movie. Story runs on over the top action but still delivers some comedy and drama. I really liked the dynamic between Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart. Rating 3.5/5
Interstellar
This movie is a hard science fiction movie in the same vein as 2001: A Space Odyssey but with a bit more action. Set in a future, year unknown, that doesn’t look too different from our own a man stumbles into a secret NASA project to find a new home for humanity in a distant galaxy. I like that movie is almost purely driven by science. The NASA robots were a surprise. They look like the monolith from 2001 but coated in polished aluminum, with two small monitors for a “face” and very human sounding voices. Completely nonhuman looking but still very humanized. Rating 4/5