by Dai » Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:57 pm
You know, I'll probably always watch another Terminator. A movie featuring killer robots has to be pretty bad for me to gain no entertainment value from it. I even forgave T3 for its weaknesses and bought the blu-ray recently to complete my set. As for Dark Fate, I missed out on seeing it at the cinema due to it disappearing by the second weekend locally, and ended up doing a blind buy on the blu-ray. I don't regret the purchase because, again, killer robots. That said, it's hard to think of a reason why this particular story needed to be told. It's exactly what I feared: a shameless rehash of the original formula, just with a mix of new and old characters in the same old roles. Its one "twist", if you can even call it that, feels hopelessly anachronistic in execution:
All that moaning aside, it's an entertaining couple of hours, albeit an overly familiar one. I'm at least glad that it feels like a fairly self-contained story, and doesn't indulge in mid-credit shenanigans like Genisys, especially since its trilogy plans have surely been terminated.