4/10
A Dark Dreary Bleak Fate
26 October 2019
With all the anticipation build up to the return of the original creators for one of the most successful franchises, it turns out to be an anticlimax. Except for the first half of the movie, the rest spurned out to a forgettable drear.

It seems that the writers have mysteriously ran out of creative juice and ended up rehashing the same old same old boring story of the robot-from-the-future-going-back-in-time to terminate the saviour of the future. Dark Fate failed to to elevate above the smart T2 Judgment Day.

Given that Cameron brought in a retinue of gifted writers like David Goyer, Billy Ray, Justin Rhodes and story by Cameron himself, Dark Fate is a forgettable drear. Watch out too for the night scenes that was so poorly lighted it flashed by into a dim monochromatic blur. If critics reviews for T3, Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genisys were flaccid, Dark Fate is bereft of vigour, aimless and uncompelling. It's a shame since it's a beautiful nostalgic traipse with the return of Linda Hamilton, Schwarzenneger and James Cameron.
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