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Friday, November 1, 2019

[7.00/10] Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Quick Review: Paying a nostalgic, yet fun tribute to "T2", without much novelty, but plenty of thrills, action, and sarcastic humor, "Dark Fate" is a technically-skillful sequel boasting with top-notch CGI work, exhilarating chases, hard-hitting fights, and out- of-this-world stunts, but its strength remains the female-led cast, notably Hamilton's badass return, as well as the characters' stirring backstories, which tie all loose ends, and add an emotional weight to it all.

4 comments:

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

Seeing it this afternoon and looking forward to it!

George Beremov [Nebular] said...

Alex, it was far from wow, but it's almost everything a modern Terminator movie should be! Hope you enjoy it!

Kaijinu said...

Not a fan of its idea of killing a certain character as it kinda ruins the prior film and all it worked up for but, then again, they pretty much did the same thing for "Genisys" so I try not to whine much.

This one's pretty okay with the action scenes and "Old Man Schwarzenegger", but story-wise, is there really nothing more in these movies than the "we must protect so-so from another-advanced-terminator-model-but-really-it's-just-a-rehashed-T-1000-model because FUTURE!" dance? It's...getting pretty old.

At least Salvation tried something a bit different...

George Beremov [Nebular] said...

I agree, it was a bit generic, but I took it as nostalgia to the old films. I liked Salvation, it felt really gritty and grim, but fun-wise, this one did the work.