3. Sarah Connor & Kyle Reese – Terminator Genisys (2015)
The Terminator franchise is a perfect example of one that started strong, then swiftly went off the rails. The first film remains a sci-fi classic, and the sequel was even better than original. Terminator 3 was a considerable step down in quality, and then subsequent movies simply failed to recapture the franchise’s former brilliance. No film encapsulates this more clearly than Terminator Genisys, a film so bad it didn’t even want to spell its own title correctly.
A limp reimagining of the original film, Genisys takes place in an alternate timeline, specifically one that enabled the casting department to pull off a whole spate of recastings. Emilia Clarke was cast as Sarah Connor, replacing Linda Hamilton, and Jai Courtney was cast as Kyle Reese, replacing Michael Biehn. In fairness, this wasn’t the first time the movie characters were recast, but it was the worst.
Thanks to the recasting, both characters suddenly feel emotionless and have absolutely zero chemistry. Terminator Genisys‘s sorry excuse for a script certainly doesn’t help, nor does the hopelessly tangled timeline. The film was bad, the acting was bad, the recasting was bad. Yet another insult to Terminator fans, just in case they hadn’t already had enough.