Terminator: Dark Fate has reinvented the Terminator franchise for the 21st century. Again.
After the disappointing critical and commercial outcome of Terminator: Genisys, a new trilogy was abandoned. But fast forward four years and we're back with another attempt at a new franchise.
And it's a good thing the newest addition to the series effectively ignores the third, fourth and fifth movies to bring Sarah and the T-800 back to the big screen.
The core of the Terminator franchise involves time travel and the shifting date of the inevitable, apocalyptic Judgment Day. And with time travel comes headache-inducing confusion. Read on for an explanation of how it all works in Terminator: Dark Fate.
The first two parts of the "Terminator" films were written by James Cameron, who was also the director. Mimt Schwarzenegger in the first of them still the almost unstoppable antagonist, part two reverses his role and sends him as protector of the young John Connor in the past. This trick was as simple as it was ingenious and played over half a billion dollars worldwide - more than any other "Terminator" continuation to date.
Which is also because of the fact that the films three to five tried tensely to expand the universe more and more bombastically and thus failed miserably. The T-1000 from "Day of Reckoning" was already hard on the edge in terms of its abilities, part three had to top it and the general action but again - now with a sexy killer machine.
And because the two other sequels (and despite Oscar winner Christian Bale in "Terminator: The Redemption") fell qualitatively even further, "Dark Fate" now decides to ignore this studiously. Similar to the recent "Halloween" return, the film, in which Cameron again acts as a producer, therefore ties in with the plot of the first two parts - with pleasing consequences.
After the disappointing critical and commercial outcome of Terminator: Genisys, a new trilogy was abandoned. But fast forward four years and we're back with another attempt at a new franchise.
And it's a good thing the newest addition to the series effectively ignores the third, fourth and fifth movies to bring Sarah and the T-800 back to the big screen.
The core of the Terminator franchise involves time travel and the shifting date of the inevitable, apocalyptic Judgment Day. And with time travel comes headache-inducing confusion. Read on for an explanation of how it all works in Terminator: Dark Fate.
The first two parts of the "Terminator" films were written by James Cameron, who was also the director. Mimt Schwarzenegger in the first of them still the almost unstoppable antagonist, part two reverses his role and sends him as protector of the young John Connor in the past. This trick was as simple as it was ingenious and played over half a billion dollars worldwide - more than any other "Terminator" continuation to date.
Which is also because of the fact that the films three to five tried tensely to expand the universe more and more bombastically and thus failed miserably. The T-1000 from "Day of Reckoning" was already hard on the edge in terms of its abilities, part three had to top it and the general action but again - now with a sexy killer machine.
And because the two other sequels (and despite Oscar winner Christian Bale in "Terminator: The Redemption") fell qualitatively even further, "Dark Fate" now decides to ignore this studiously. Similar to the recent "Halloween" return, the film, in which Cameron again acts as a producer, therefore ties in with the plot of the first two parts - with pleasing consequences.
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