Terminator: Dark Fate (4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital)

A very awesome movie! Quality is superb! Special Features are excellent!

Happy I found this. It's not worth pay $3.99 everyone I wanna watch it.

I'm not going to sit here and individually dissect the popular arguments passed around by detractors. I'm not. This is one of those cases where it seems as though the people who hated the film were probably halfway to disliking it before they even sat down in the theater, and there's SO much criticism out there that reeks of the regurgitated loathing you see in unpoliced comments sections. There's no fighting that, and, if you're already determined to dislike the film, I'm never going to change your mind. That's okay, though, and you can still read my review even if you're already certain that you'll disagree with it. I'm writing this because *I* enjoyed the film, and the mere idea that other people might also enjoy it keeps my fingers moving.Terminator 2 (practically everyone's favorite Terminator film - even mine) has sat, unmoved and unmolested, on the same dusty pedestal for a good many years, and none of its relatively ill-fated sequels have so much as managed to nudge it. I wouldn't call it perfect, but it certainly left an impression. It's a movie about time traveling killer robots (excuse me, cyborgs) sent naked into the past to either protect or kill someone in particular. It sounds kind of silly when thus reduced, but it's fun, it makes you the good kind of popcorn-scarfing nervous, and the action leaves you both wishing for more and waiting for the next merciful lull. It's not overly different from its similarly fun and silly-in-concept (I reiterate: time traveling killer robots, for goodness sake) predecessor that gave birth to the endoskeleton-sporting series. That's right: I'm still talking about the ever untouchable Terminator 2; one of my all-time favorite films.No, I'm not trying to tear down T2 in order to elevate Dark Fate, but I neither consider T2 as perfect as its fans proclaim nor Dark Fate as irredeemably terrible as, well, T2's fans believe. If you've never seen the other Terminator films, I'm not sure why you'd be compelled to watch and love or hate Dark Fate, but I can claim, with some measure of confidence, that the people spitting the harshest venom are the same people who downright adore T2. It's a great film, and you should watch it - even if it's for the twentieth time. But here's the thing: Dark Fate isn't really that astronomically different from T2, and I think what differences do exist serve the narrative rather than condemn it.Dark Fate is a great film, and you should watch it - even if only once. I wouldn't call it perfect, but here I am writing a review about it. It's a movie about time traveling killer robots (excuse me, cyborgs) sent naked into the past to either protect or kill someone in particular. It sounds kind of silly when thus reduced, but it's fun, it makes you the good kind of popcorn-scarfing nervous, and the action leaves you both wishing for more and waiting for the next merciful lull. (And now you see what I'm doing.)Dark Fate's greatest sin is not its writing, its acting, or its reasoning, and let's face it: the series never stood on an unshakable foundation of logic to begin with. It's been sitting on top of an inextricable paradox (utterly fundamental to the plot) since the first film, and some of the fingers you could point at Dark Fate could probably be pointed, with similar justifications, at the series as a whole. Dark Fate says, "You remember that paradox? You like that paradox?" while tossing its smouldering carcass into an abyss typically suited for the victims of countless creative retcons.That probably sounds like a criticism - it's not. It is, in my opinion, the single best thing about Dark Fate's story direction. Yes, it does a lot of the same things the other films have done, but each and every successive film has parroted moments and themes and dialogue and story lines from the first. Even T2 was essentially more of the same, but it tossed in enough uniquely worthwhile moments and enough twists to make it feel different or new. I appreciate the different path (still operating within the usual confines and parameters of Terminator films) that Dark Fate took. Some people probably interpreted it as more of a slap in the face or a blow to the gut, but (reviewer pauses to access a cumulative emotional databank) yeah, that's Terminator. It's a series built upon widespread death and doom; a glimpsed future of skulls crushed underfoot and a tireless, nigh invincible enemy. It's as dismal as it is horrifying, and that's the idea. Because then you introduce this little fluttering insect called hope, and things suddenly get interesting.Dark Fate ticks all of the same boxes that the other films have ticked. If you hate the first five minutes of Dark Fate, I applaud you for having watched any of the other films for any longer. If you like explosive action, moments of tense uncertainty, or strong characters being strong (and brave and foolish and angry and sad - and human) set before a backdrop of ridiculous, gloomy sci-fi, you had ought to stay for the minutes that come after. There were moments in Dark Fate that affected me as deeply or as viscerally as a well-timed thumbs-up or a nerve-racking semi-and-motorcycle chase, and I got to enjoy them while watching faces new and old.I could go and watch T2 right now (it's a great film - I probably will at some point), but avoiding Dark Fate altogether would only have been my loss. Despite my enduring affection for the previous films, I'm neither angry nor disappointed; I'm just kind of hungry, to tell it true. You see, I didn't stock up on popcorn beforehand, and there isn't a lobby nearby peddling butter-soaked popped kernels. I paid somewhere around twice as much for admission, and I had only my fingers to chew on for the duration. But, against all odds projected on the internets, I had fun. Was it T2 levels of fun? Why the heck would I care? It was a new ride, and I was glad to be on it.

Well, I thought I learned my lesson about listening to critics bombing a movie. I was wrong, I judged this excellent movie by them again and from what others had said. I watched it (finally) from beginning to end without interputions and I'm glad I did. The movie was refreshing to see and the new characters made it exciting all over again. What can you say, Arnold was Arnold in the role made for him. Older but more sure of himself with respects to the part. Linda was still a bad ass with weapons and cocky, lending her experience to the given situations as the movie progressed. Mackenize, Natalia and Diego were refreshing to see and set in Mexico adds to a different lineage to the story. Just to add, there was NO reference to illegal aliens getting free anything, it was just part of the story! ( nor was there any preaching about them staying here.) I liked very much, sometimes it helps an established francise to relocate to bring interest and a fresh perspective back for the fans. Being bi-lingual, I found it easy to follow the scenes in Mexico with Grace, Dani and Diego. Too bad Diego's part was cut short, there could've been room for him in another movie. Dani and Grace have a good rapport going after Grace proves who she is. The trust is built and the story grows and moves along quite well. There is great potential for this Dark Fate team to grow if they decide to pick it up again. I really hope so, it would nice if "they'll be back."

This was a pretty cool movie to watch with the family. Its different form the first one but it still had a lot of action and over all a great movie.

Have to watch another Terminator

I just loved this movie! I see a few negative reviews on it but I do not agree with those negative reviews at all!First off, you have to accept the disappointment in the beginning of the movie where John Connor gets terminated. But only let that be a temporary disappointment. You'll forgive that later in the movie. Schwarzenegger plays the T800 terminator who terminated John Connor. Afterwards the T800 grows a conscience and becomes quite the family man. His learned about humans and the value of human life. He felt guilty about terminating John Connor and quietly tipped off Sarah Connor of the arrival other terminators (though Sarah Connor didn't know where the text messages where coming from). So the relationship between Connor and the T800 is rocky but they had to work together to stop the new terminator who is the most hard to kill terminator to date.Secondly, understand that Terminator: Dark Fate is a fiction movie. The events in the movie are not historical or present day current events. This means the entire concept of terminator is not to be taken seriously as something to over analyze. Its a fiction movie and a damn good one!Last, The movie is deep and the characters play their roles very well. One can walk away with some moral lessons from the movie if they allow their mind to ponder that deep on it. For example, in Terminator II, Sarah Connor stopped Judgement Day. Or did she? Evil always has a way of rising up its ugly head. We can look through real history and see nothing but the rise of dictators throughout the whole of human history. Dictators rise and dictators fall. Then they rise again. Just when you think dictators have been overthrown they rise again. So the new Terminator movie does capture a true reality as far as our own knowledge of real history is concerned. With that said, Sarah Connor only delayed the rise of the machines. But eventually that technology takes on a different form with a new name. With John Connor dead, a new future begins and a new hero emerges.The movie was good and I enjoyed it. It made me think. I loved how the movie ended. Its different from other Terminator movies but that does not mean its inferior. I would at least rate this Terminator movie as the #3 best Terminator besides the first two. I like them all but I really like Dark Fate a little more than the others that followed after T2.