Dear dear dear. What an absolute let down this latest installment of the terminator franchise is. I gave it 5-stars but purely because of the action, visuals & the effects. Everything else, however, is either not very good or plain mediocre (I never thought I'd say THAT about a terminator film).
I was actually looking forward to this, especially when I saw who was going to be back (no pun intended), but oh boy. Sorely disappointed doesn't cover it.
Firstly, the writing - especially for a terminator film - is extremely poor. I mean "Carl" the Terminator?! C'mon, and I still can't say that without laughing, but that was the moment it just got ridiculous for me. "Carl's" back story makes absolutely no sense, from the moment "he" was sent back to the moment you see "him" in the film. Also, the cringy "YOU'RE the resistance leader! Not some man!" speech (yes - even Terminator has been added to the nonsensical, politically correct "woke" garbage). A 60plus-year-old woman able to fight like she is still in her 30s without breaking a hip. It's stunning James Cameron was a part of this and to see this franchise go from two amazing Sci-fi/Action films (T1 & T2) to this is pretty embarrassing.
Schwarzenegger seems to have been brought back just for an extended cameo (and not a very good one at that). In the 1st two films the T-800 was threatening, intimidating & relentless. Here, it was the exact opposite. I LOVED Linda Hamilton in those 1st movies also, but she was wasted here, and I hate to say it but she was very wooden in the part of Sarah. Two standouts were Mackenzie Davis and Gabriel Luna and I think they really carried the film, but without any disrespect, that wasn't hard to do here.
The plus points were the visuals & the action, but it's just a pity the story dragged it all in to the gutter.
An extremely mediocre Terminator film. NEVER thought I'd say that about a Terminator film either. Just one more thing to add to the year of craziness that is 2020.
I was actually looking forward to this, especially when I saw who was going to be back (no pun intended), but oh boy. Sorely disappointed doesn't cover it.
Firstly, the writing - especially for a terminator film - is extremely poor. I mean "Carl" the Terminator?! C'mon, and I still can't say that without laughing, but that was the moment it just got ridiculous for me. "Carl's" back story makes absolutely no sense, from the moment "he" was sent back to the moment you see "him" in the film. Also, the cringy "YOU'RE the resistance leader! Not some man!" speech (yes - even Terminator has been added to the nonsensical, politically correct "woke" garbage). A 60plus-year-old woman able to fight like she is still in her 30s without breaking a hip. It's stunning James Cameron was a part of this and to see this franchise go from two amazing Sci-fi/Action films (T1 & T2) to this is pretty embarrassing.
Schwarzenegger seems to have been brought back just for an extended cameo (and not a very good one at that). In the 1st two films the T-800 was threatening, intimidating & relentless. Here, it was the exact opposite. I LOVED Linda Hamilton in those 1st movies also, but she was wasted here, and I hate to say it but she was very wooden in the part of Sarah. Two standouts were Mackenzie Davis and Gabriel Luna and I think they really carried the film, but without any disrespect, that wasn't hard to do here.
The plus points were the visuals & the action, but it's just a pity the story dragged it all in to the gutter.
An extremely mediocre Terminator film. NEVER thought I'd say that about a Terminator film either. Just one more thing to add to the year of craziness that is 2020.