Just saw it. It isn’t very good...

And no, it has nothing to do with overt SJW themes or PC woke liberal stuff. In fact, the movie has very few overt “gurl power” “fight the white man” stances. You’d really have to grasp at straws to find them, but I guess most ‘logical’ posters on here are good at grasping at straws, so who knows.

The film is just painfully average. Nothing terrible, but nothing really interesting. It’s your average big budget action blockbuster. They completely rewrote the timeline and I really didn’t like that; they could’ve just made this an original film instead of slapping the Terminator name on it. They stop Skynet, so now some other company rises up. Why? This gives it the sense that nothing these characters ever do will ever stop the robopocalypse, so what’s even the point in fighting if there will always be some other company to go haywire? That really makes the whole film pointless. The action scenes are mostly quite good, and it was very nice to see these characters return (why are people mad about Arnold and Linda returning? Because they’re old? Cmon, you people destroyed Salvation because “no Arnold, no movie”), and it was kinda cool to see Edward Furlong “back” through deaged CGI (somewhat misleading because it’s not what was advertised). In fact, the deaging CGI is probably the best part of the whole movie because it honestly looks amazing. But, the plot they’re in is just as bland as the film’s title, Dark Fate. This film does or says nothing new. You’ve seen this action film before a few hundred times. This film is about on par with Terminator 3, and the two films actually have alot of similarities: they honestly aren’t terrible movies, but they just copy and follow the formula from other, better films. 5/10