Rent Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Blatantly cashing in and pushing the feminist angle, yawn! - Terminator: Dark Fate review by CS

There appears to be a trend at the moment with franchises, to kill off the original characters because the actors are simply getting old and to replace them with new characters played by younger actors, thus attempting to ensure that the franchise continues to appeal to the next generation. And this is what this film appears to also attempt to do! There is also a very annoying and much misunderstood trend to replace white or male characters with black or female characters in a bid at address race or feminist issues, but the producers simply do not understand that they in essence are in fact creating reverse racism or reverse sexism, which once again is what has happened in this film! All the main characters apart from Arnie, have been replaced by women and the male actors have simply been sidelined and pushed to the background as eye candy or supporting roles. Many feminists may claim this is to represent how they perceive women were treated in the past. However films such as The Terminator never treated women in this way, neither did Arnie films, instead they have always shown women in strong roles and that is the whole point of this franchise, just as in the Alien films, Tomb Raider or any other film of this type, women are shown as heroes, strong, independent and equal to men. However this film is so full of Femininist male put downs that it became a yawn to watch and really quite annoying too. In one part Sarah Conner even says to the young girl," you are John" and repeats it so we get the point. The point being that the male characters have now been replaced by female characters in order to appeal to this much misunderstood and quite contradictory feminist logic! Personally I thought this was the worst film in the franchise, I watched it with some friends and we all agreed that it was very slow and the blatant feminist angle simply ruined what should have been a good movie! The other thing is that this brings nothing new to the franchise, it is simply a repeat of the old themes, albeit creating a completely new timeline, whilst completely ignoring the original timelines and stories, which again made no sense of past events and simply contradicted itself! Something else which I find really annoying and has fast become a trend in recent movies, is filming fast paced action sequences in the dark so that you literally cannot see anything, there were far too many sequences like this here and you really could not see what was going on in these shots at all. Apart from pushing the feminist angle I'm unclear as to why this film was even made, one presumes simply to trade off the brand and make more money for the studio and whomever was involved! Perhaps it's time to bring this once great series to a close now, instead of constantly milking it and dragging it down with such inferior follow on such as this!

Great action cinema, picture and sound are stunning especially in 4k. Film is pretty good - Terminator: Dark Fate review by AW

Great action cinema, picture and sound are stunning especially in 4k. Film is pretty good as a continuation of T2. Linda Hamilton kicks ass again as Sarah Connor and the story moves along at a good pace.

Time shift creates another version. Groundhog day. - Terminator: Dark Fate review by NC

The first two films capped it basically, but the Hollywood machine sees a money trail.......so here we are on number 6! Arnie gets his pension, and big bonus for the Connor family.

Same basic story line all 6 films really. Makes a change from incessant Marvel offerings. PC graphics rule..........story and dialogue suffers. No imagination in film making it appears.................

Not a bad film to be fair. Worth a watch and Arnie pretty good job, with some good one liners..................

Watchable if you like the series. - Terminator: Dark Fate review by KD

Watched Dark Fate to satisfy my curiosity, I almost didn't bother, but I'm glad I did. Found myself enjoying quite a lot of it, the new score and the action were all good, was great to see Hamilton and Arnie on screen together again, some of the dialogue made me cringe in places and the attempts at humour fell flat though. I was surprised to see some moments that had a bit of emotional impact for me.

Was a shame they couldn't have done something a bit different with the story other than stick to the same template, it certainly felt like more of Terminator film compared to Genisys, that made me feel angry after leaving the cinema.

Computer game. - Terminator: Dark Fate review by IW

No story, bad acting, dreadful. Let's hope it stays dead this time...........................................................

Uninspired - Terminator: Dark Fate review by NJ

OK so I should have expected this film to be uninspiring; but it didn't need to be. I remember back in the day when the first Terminator films came out, they were amazing effects movies; pushing the boundaries between mere mechanical reproduction and simulation. And the story wasn't bad either. But unfortunately as the franchise continues to make films they are neither inspiring technically or narratively competent.

No More Please - Terminator: Dark Fate review by GI

There's been plenty of hype around this instalment in the Terminator franchise mainly that it's a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) and that the other films made since that one are ignored. This creates an anticipation that this is going to be as good as 1984s first film and the innovative 1991 sequel but alas it isn't. Don't get me wrong though there's plenty to like especially for diehard fans of the films, plenty of action, bloody violence and fights and of course Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor and Arnold Schwarzenegger is in it. The trouble is there's not much that's really new here, it's essentially a rehashed version of the same story. A nasty robot comes back from the future to kill someone who has no idea why they are targeted and a protector also comes back to help them. Mackenzie Davis excels as a future super-soldier but Hamilton's Connor, for me, was overly cynical, annoying and poorly written. Arnie's storyline here didn't work for me at all but once we get to the climactic battle it's exciting stuff although predictable. The new nasty terminator is an interesting concept and the CGI is impressive. Overall this is ok and a mildly interesting addition to the franchise.