Review of Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) by Deanomite — 16 Jan 2020

I have liked all the Terminator movies, except Genesys, they took the sweet Emilia Clarke and turned her in to a neo feminist nagger, unforgivable. So, this was $200m budget and directed by Time Miller who made Deadpool which I thought was corny but worth seeing.

first of all, the camera angles change either too fast or in the wrong orientation, because it feels like chop suey to watch. The cgi is absolutely awful, an early shot has a sack lunch turn into a pistol.

Both terminators are generic, it starts looking like a Home Depot commercial. The female Kyle Reese has potential but she is too rushed in behavior, Kyle was cool in that he was never in a hurry no matter how crazy the situation.

Linda Hamilton is always great but everything feels choreographed, like Sully when the plane landed perfectly after 17 attempts. I don't know how Spanish people became the focus, an explanation would have been nice beforehand.

I think for Hollywood feminism is a gimmick, which is a bummer because there are a lot of brave women fighting for a place in the world. Biggest plot hole: Linda asks who the girl is, she says nobody, ok why did Linda know where to look? This movie is an excellent opportunity to study script writing.

Roger Corman said #1 rule is have a good script, I may not know what that is but this movie shows what is is not. Movies like this are a great lesson in how it could go wrong. The dialog is horrendous, characters denigrating each other is never a good sign.

I made it to 40 minutes in this movie, had to quit. I very rarely don't watch the whole thing.