Terminator: Dark Fate
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Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
What critics thought
Critics were genuinely split on Dark Fate: positive reviews welcomed it as a return to the franchise's roots and praised the female-led ensemble, while negative ones saw it as a derivative retread that actively damages the legacy of the first two films. The decision to kill John Connor in the opening scene became the film's most contested creative choice, with many critics and fans arguing it hollows out the emotional stakes that made the originals matter.
“Terminator: Dark Fate is a movie designed to impress you with its scale and visual effects, but it's also a film that returns, in good and gratifying ways, to the smartly packaged low-down genre-thriller classicism that gave the original Terminator its kick.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
“cobbled together by dunces in a last-ditch effort to wring revenue from a moribund concept. The plot makes no sense—time travel as multiverse Dada. Worse still, it renders meaningless the struggles that gave the first two films of the franchise an epic dimension.”
Joe Morgenstern·The Wall Street Journal
“Dark Fate is too thinly sketched to be anything but pastiche. It feels like a Terminator movie spit out by a machine designed to make Terminator movies. A dark fate for the franchise, indeed.”
Angie Han·Mashable
“Every sequel since has diminished the ending of Judgment Day because the story 'needs' to continue (because studios like money and can't leave well enough alone). But Terminator: Dark Fate may be the worst offender thus far as its prologue directly follows T2 and goes for shock value rather than considering what it means to continue the narrative.”
Matt Goldberg·Collider
Parents guide
- Violence
- moderate
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Thriller
Cast & Crew
Tim MillerDirector
Linda HamiltonSarah Connor
Arnold SchwarzeneggerT-800 / Carl
Mackenzie DavisGrace
Natalia ReyesDaniella "Dani" Ramos
Gabriel LunaGabriel / REV-9
Diego BonetaDiego Ramos
Ferran FernándezFlacco
Tristán UlloaFelipe Gandal
Stephanie GilYoung Grace (10yrs)
Tom HopperHadrell
Alicia BorracheroCarl's Wife
Tom HolkenborgComposer
Josh FriedmanWriter
David S. GoyerWriter
Billy RayWriter
James CameronWriter
Charles H. EgleeWriter
Ken SengCinematographyTerminator: Dark Fate
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
What critics thought
Critics were genuinely split on Dark Fate: positive reviews welcomed it as a return to the franchise's roots and praised the female-led ensemble, while negative ones saw it as a derivative retread that actively damages the legacy of the first two films. The decision to kill John Connor in the opening scene became the film's most contested creative choice, with many critics and fans arguing it hollows out the emotional stakes that made the originals matter.
“Terminator: Dark Fate is a movie designed to impress you with its scale and visual effects, but it's also a film that returns, in good and gratifying ways, to the smartly packaged low-down genre-thriller classicism that gave the original Terminator its kick.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
“cobbled together by dunces in a last-ditch effort to wring revenue from a moribund concept. The plot makes no sense—time travel as multiverse Dada. Worse still, it renders meaningless the struggles that gave the first two films of the franchise an epic dimension.”
Joe Morgenstern·The Wall Street Journal
“Dark Fate is too thinly sketched to be anything but pastiche. It feels like a Terminator movie spit out by a machine designed to make Terminator movies. A dark fate for the franchise, indeed.”
Angie Han·Mashable
“Every sequel since has diminished the ending of Judgment Day because the story 'needs' to continue (because studios like money and can't leave well enough alone). But Terminator: Dark Fate may be the worst offender thus far as its prologue directly follows T2 and goes for shock value rather than considering what it means to continue the narrative.”
Matt Goldberg·Collider
Parents guide
- Violence
- moderate
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Thriller
Cast & Crew
Tim MillerDirectorLinda HamiltonSarah ConnorArnold SchwarzeneggerT-800 / CarlMackenzie DavisGraceNatalia ReyesDaniella "Dani" RamosGabriel LunaGabriel / REV-9Diego BonetaDiego RamosFerran FernándezFlaccoTristán UlloaFelipe GandalStephanie GilYoung Grace (10yrs)Tom HopperHadrellAlicia BorracheroCarl's WifeTom HolkenborgComposerJosh FriedmanWriterDavid S. GoyerWriterBilly RayWriterJames CameronWriterCharles H. EgleeWriterKen SengCinematographyStream
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