Terminator: Dark Fate - Movie Review

Terminator dark  fate was directed by Tim Miller and  stars Linda Hamilton McKenzie Davis  Arnold Schwarzenegger and natalia reyes  and is the story of Sarah Connor and a  hybrid cyborg human, who now must protect  a young girl from a newly modified  liquid Terminator from the future. According to reports published before  this film's release Edward Furlong as  John Connor is also in the movie. So, we  can all look forward to that. the Terminator franchise has basically  been a mediocre bland pile of crap since  Terminator 2. The first two films were  amazing and I still loved them but after  that they've all been pretty disposable  and Genesis was rather embarrassing so  with James Cameron returning as a  producer and Tim Miller directing Linda  Hamilton coming back as Sarah Connor, it  felt like there was something happening.  It felt like there were possibilities  here and while this movie is competently  helmed and the action sequences can be  enjoyable to watch and I suppose as an  action movie only it's not too bad.

 As a  terminator movie I thought this was  awful. I think that's where this  movie is going to divide viewers because  I understand that they're probably  trying to make a new Terminator movie  for a new generation of fans who don't  give a shit about the old ones but that  also doesn't make sense. Because you have  Swardson Egger back and you have Linda  Hamilton back and you have James Cameron  back so why aren't you trying to honor  the legacy of the first two films? Maybe  they actually were maybe they genuinely  had no idea they were making a movie  that took a giant shit all over the  legacy of the first two maybe they  really thought they were actually  honoring them but it really doesn't feel  like they  were. I want to talk about spoilers  holy shit!  I hate let's push aside my gripes and be  realistic. Mackenzie Davis is really good  in this movie I thought she was really  badass and I liked her character quite a  bit she dedicated a lot of physicality  to this role and I thought she was  wonderful in the movie. Linda Hamilton is  by far my favorite part of the whole  film she is awesome  she's great as this character and she  totally fits in those boots once again  all these years later she added a lot to  the movie and I loved seeing her back  and despite the fact that I didn't love  what they did with Arnold Schwarzenegger  storyline.

 I thought, he was really funny  in the movie it's it's weird because  like I didn't love what they were doing  with the character but I undeniably  laughed many times. But if you've seen  the trailers you know that they find him  in a cabin in the woods so I don't  really think it's much of a spoiler to  say that this character has sort of  settled down which is odd. We'll talk  about that after the grade as I stated  the action sequences are propulsive  there's many of them and it does feel  like the movie moves consistently.  Although I thought it dragged  considerably during the middle of the  film. A lot of the action sequences feel  a bit too tight and it just doesn't feel  real. I'm gonna compare them to movies  that were made in the 80s in the early  90s. I think it's  kind of necessary why are these films  made so many years ago so much better  why do they look so much better because  they're really fucking happening and so  much of this shit in this movie even  some of the stuff that is actually  happening like car crashes. There's a  shiny fake filter over everything and I  just didn't buy anything that was  happening. The thing that this bugged me  about this movie is that it really is a  recycled Terminator 2 plot.

 There's a few  extra little character beats that are  added but this series once again cannot  figure out how to be a series without  somebody protecting somebody from  another Terminator. It's the same plot I  don't understand why this series can't  figure out how to tell a story that  doesn't involve the Connors or Arnold  Schwarzenegger Terminator Salvation is  actually the closest that they've ever  got to doing that which is one of the  reasons iris  affect that movie more than most  terminator sequels even though I don't  love it. I can't go on any longer  without talking about some of my spoiler  issues so I'm just gonna grade this film  I'm gonna give terminator dark fate a  “C”. I think this movie is better  than Genesis because Mackenzie Davis and  Linda Hamilton and Swass nigger are all  good in the movie. And I liked these  characters. I liked seeing them on screen. The action was better and better  directed than in Genesis is the story  here guys the script everything about it  just really tanked to this movie for me  and got it to a point where I want to as  a terminator fan just be like this is  like a “DD+”