After four disappointing sequels in a row, the Terminator franchise should probably be retired for good. The law of diminishing returns set in a long time ago, and in retrospect Jonathan Mostow’s Rise of the Machines was the closest we got to recapturing the magic of James Cameron’s classic two originals.
The third installment ended with Judgement Day proving itself to be inevitable, but none of the following trio of reboots managed to deliver on the promises they’d made. In the space of ten years we were told that Salvation, Genisys and Dark Fate would be the movie the fans had always wanted to see, marking the first chapter of an all-new Terminator trilogy that would restore the flagging series to former glories.
Obviously that didn’t happen, and Dark Fate was one of the 2019’s biggest bombs, while star Mackenzie Davis even admitted people were probably...
The third installment ended with Judgement Day proving itself to be inevitable, but none of the following trio of reboots managed to deliver on the promises they’d made. In the space of ten years we were told that Salvation, Genisys and Dark Fate would be the movie the fans had always wanted to see, marking the first chapter of an all-new Terminator trilogy that would restore the flagging series to former glories.
Obviously that didn’t happen, and Dark Fate was one of the 2019’s biggest bombs, while star Mackenzie Davis even admitted people were probably...
- 12/27/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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