Now, initially when we managed to confirm our Exclusive story on the age rating we did some digging and found out the movie had a 12 rating in Hungary… this led us to presume it could be a 12 in the UK… it is in fact a 12a (UK equivalent to PG-13) which means anyone under the age of 12 can go to see Terminator Genisys providing they are accompanied by an adult/parent/guardian (pun intended).
Even advanced events/official previews have been advertised as having children viewers…
We had initially thought it could be 12 because Terminator Salvation was a 12… could this mean the movie will have a similar violence level to Terminator Salvation?… this would also explain the rating hold back which Terminator Salvation also did. Will Terminator Genisys be the softest toned Terminator movie EVER? As things seem to get more diluted with each movie.
The movie also passed ‘UNCUT’ which means they didn’t even have to remove any content which does indeed show that the movie knew what rating it was aiming for from the offset… still why do the official trailers and movie assets not declare the age rating?
BBFC Details:
TYPE Feature
APPROX. RUNNING MINUTES 126
RELEASE DATES 02/07/2015
BBFCINSIGHT moderate threat, violence, infrequent strong language
GENRE(S) Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
DIRECTOR(S) Alan Taylor
CAST INCLUDES Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Jason Clarke, J.K. Simmons, Matt Smith
SUMMARY TERMINATOR GENISYS is a science-fiction action adventure film in which a soldier is sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to prevent the assassination of a woman who will one day give birth to a legendary guerrilla leader and freedom fighter.
CUT All known versions of this work passed uncut.