Review of Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) by Arthur88 — 02 Nov 2019

Lazy script + SJW Politics + Jump the shark scenes = terrible film. Dark fate is a terrible story....really, there is no story. It is poorly written and I am shocked James Cameron, who is known for his intricate interwoven story lines and realistic believable characters and action really bombed this movie when he allowed amateur writers to wreck his franchise. This movie is episodic. By that I mean it is just the same characters going from one scene to the next in miniature episodes without any over-arcing or interwoven story whatsoever beyond "lets run to the next location". When each episode is done (lasting about 15 minutes), everything that happened in that episode is 100% forgotten and nothing is ever referenced again later on. Many things in this movie are absurd and grounded in stupidity and poor script writing:

.... US Air force major is just going to hand over top secret gear without so much as explaining it to us? A truck falls 200 feet from a dam into ravenous waters with human passengers and no one is injured? A plane at 20,000 feet bursts and no one blacks out over decompression? SJW politics are amock, running foul in this film. The first 30 minutes are in Spanish, I do not exaggerate, I thought I was watching a foreign film. One 15 minute episode has our characters at a border detention facility where...surprise surprise...US customs are negatively portrayed complete with a reference to separating families. Good grief. Lack of originality: In this terminator the BIG REVEAL (why she is so important) is so obvious- it was pretty much shouted at us multiple times long before it happened. NO one with an IQ over 20 would have assumed she was going to give birth to someone after the repeated insults to our intelligence by announcing it loud and clear early on. John Connor was someone who led the resistance....Guess what this girl does? Oh yea....how original. The girl in this movie literally goes from "i've never touched a gun before" shy and typical to expert marksman and full on military leader in 5 minutes. So stupid.

A scene where non cyborg humans are underwater and then pop up to the surface like they are made out of Styrofoam is ridiculously unrealistic.

Too many plot holes and lack of an interwoven story in between all the little "episodes" the characters take every 10 minutes... make iDark Fate a bad movie patronizing to intelligence.

Bad writing.