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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★½ 31

  Me during every scene of Terminator: Dark Fate: “Man if James Cameron had made this it would probably be pretty good.”

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  Review by davidehrlich ★½ 25

  Despite being the sixth (and hopefully final) installment of a franchise that hasn’t really been relevant since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tim Miller’s competent but coma-inducing “Terminator: Dark Fate” has no reason to feel this far past its expiration date. In a studio age of intellectual property where nostalgia and innovation are tugging us so hard in either direction that it doesn’t seem to matter what happens right here, nothing this side of a “live-action” Disney remake could possibly be more “now” than an unsolicited $150 million sequel in which the present is literally reduced to a turf war between the past and the future.

  And “Dark Fate” does everything in its power to embrace the 2019 of…

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★½ 11

  For decades, The Terminator has been thought of as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s franchise. He’s the guy who appears in five out of the six movies to date — and the sixth one was so desperate to include him even though he was Governor of California at the time that they made a CGI Ahhnuld who could fight Christian Bale. What Terminator: Dark Fate makes clear is that while the Terminator may be Schwarzenegger’s signature role, he wasn’t the key ingredient that made these movies really work. It was Linda Hamilton.

  Full review at ScreenCrush.

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  Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★½ 10

  Rotten Tomatoes: 70%
  Metacritic Metascore: 54
  IMDB: 6.3

  54/100

  Release Date: 01 November 2019
  Distributor: Paramount Pictures
  Budget: $185M
  Worldwide Gross: $261.1M
  Total Film Awards: 1

  2019 Ranked

  T-800: "Even without a rogue AI taking over, I calculate a 74 percent chance that human civilization will collapse into barbarism. And in that eventuality, these weapons will be vital to protect my family. Also, this is Texas."

  SYNOPSIS: An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.
  - Source: IMDb

  I'll be honest, Dark Fate is more mediocre than unwatchable, probably the best Terminator since T2... which doesn't say much.

  TRIVIA: During filming, the…

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  Review by BeHaind ★★ 15

  Die gute Nachricht zuerst: Terminator: Dark Fate ist von allem Fortsetzungen seit Terminator 2 definitiv die handwerklich sauberste. Vergleichen mit Terminator 3 oder 5 sind Look, inszenatorische Leistung und Produktionswert definitiv eine Stufe aufgestiegen. Die schlechte Nachricht: viel mehr Gutes gibt es hier nicht zu berichten.

  Während der ersten Hälfte ist das hier einfach nur Terminator 2…einhalb. Nach einem durchaus eher überraschenden Opening, dass zwar direkt zum Einstieg massive Logikprobleme offenbart, immerhin aber nicht uninteressante Ansätze liefert, wird für die nächste Stunde praktisch jede einzelne Terminator-Checkbox abgehakt. Zwei Zeitreiseblasen, zwei Nackedeis, beide suchen Kleidung, eine Damsel in Distress, die wider Willen gerettet wird, während der Antagonist Dinge tötet. Alles wie gehabt. Nächste Station: Verfolgungsjagd auf dem Highway…

  Das mag die sicherste…

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  Review by Andy Karr ★★★ 12

  A surprise screening. The Alamo and/or the studio tricked us into watching this. What a lame, tired gimmick.

  My dad had been saying for over a decade how much he wanted to see T2 in a theater again. It's one of his all-time favorites. Within minutes of when our local Alamo announced this supposed T2 screening, I bought us tickets. That was a month ago. And so, after weeks of anticipation, we're in the theater, stoked, ready to watch together this movie Dad had ceremoniously shown me for the first time on VHS 20 years earlier, a movie that had bonded us unlike any other movie ever really had, or has.

  And then... Arnold and Linda appear onscreen to announce…

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  Review by Marco Risch ★½ 10

  Nein.

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  Review by David Sims ★★★ 1

  fuck me up Linda

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  Review by Esther Rosenfield ★★★ 10

  Horrifically—like, HORRIFICALLY—directed, and with a script rife with the late-2010s schitck of overexplaining every plot development to avoid the ire of the CinemaSins crowd. But...I dunno. In a truly bleak and desperate year for all kinds of movies, I think I'll take what I can get from franchise blockbusters. Linda Hamilton's so much fun here that it's all too clear how tragic her absence from movies has been. I'm very gay for Mackenzie Davis. And the film spends some time on classic cyborg "am I human???" shit that the series has never really bothered to make time for. That the new evil Terminator is better at acting friendly, making banter with civilians, and generally passing as a real human than the actually real human played by Davis is an interesting idea. Yeah I dunno folks. I had a good time. I'm gay. What do you want from me.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★½ 5

  Not remotely as not bad as TERMINATOR 3.

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  Review by alex todd 🧟‍♂️ ★★★½ 17

  2109 Ranked

  2 words: Mackenzie Davis

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★½ 1

  Watched with the commentary track, which is interesting because it’s extremely positive and enthusiastic even as Tim Miller and editor Julian Clarke talk about fabricating scenes that weren’t in the original script (and therefore couldn’t disturb anything around them) and rewriting other sequences the night before they were shot because they “didn’t have time” to do another draft before production began. I appreciated their candor. It certainly explains some of the hiccups in the story, and it does make me wonder how good Dark Fate could have been with a bit more prep and a few more drafts. If the rest of the movie had been up to the level of Linda Hamilton and Arnold (who are both really good), it could have really been something special.

  The commentary also reveals that my favorite sequence — the long introduction of Arnold’s older Terminator, of course — was written by James Cameron.