Terminator: Dark Fate: reviews

What the critics say average 6.1 from 8 outlets

• 9.4 The WrapWilliam Bibbiani Whether Terminator: Dark Fate is the last chapter in this story or the first in an all-new franchise is, for now, irrelevant. The film works either way, bringing the tale of the first two films to a satisfying conclusion while reintroducing the classic storyline, in exciting new ways, to an excited new audience. It?s a breathtaking blockbuster, and a welcome return to form. Read
• 8.0 EmpireHelen O'Hara Easily the third-best Terminator film, which is more of a compliment than it sounds. It?s great to have Hamilton back in this role, but she?s ably matched by Reyes and Davis. Read
• 7.0 Los Angeles TimesJustin Chang Miller, like most directors, isn?t remotely in Cameron?s league as a maestro of action technique. But he gives the visual-effects-encrusted combat scenes a nicely visceral intensity, with just the right ratio of spatial coherence to logistical chaos. Read
• 7.0 VarietyOwen Gleiberman [It is] designed to impress you with its scale and visual effects, but it?s also a film that returns, in good and gratifying ways, to the smartly packaged low-down genre-thriller classicism that gave the original 'Terminator' its kick. Read
• 6.5 CinemaníaSantiago Alverú Surprise, 'Terminator: Dark Fate' works. Honestly. In his tribute, it works by mild (...) a pure-action movie, with scenes shot with rhythm and ambitiously designed Read
• 4.0 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw The Terminator franchise has come clanking robotically into view once again with its sixth film ? it absolutely will not stop ? not merely repeating itself but somehow repeating the repetitions. Read
• 4.0 El MundoLuis Martínez An effective action film where Miller demonstrates his skills to corograph slaps and an atrocious sentimentality for sales, has already been said, nostalgia. But of carafe. Read
• 2.5 New York PostJohnny Oleksinski Just another bad sequel (...) Giving us happy memories of the first two films ? some of the best of their genre ? is what hurts this impostor the most. Read