Terminator: Dark Fate
Terminator: Dark Fate
Terminator: Dark Fate
Terminator: Dark Fate
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Tim MillerKamera:
Ken SengMusik:
Tom HolkenborgBesetzung:
Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, Diego Boneta, Edward Furlong, Tom Hopper, Brett Azar, Steven Cree (mehr)Streaming (5)
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Roboter sind überall: In der Autofabrik in Mexiko hat gerade einer den Job von ihrem Bruder übernommen und poliert jetzt Motorhauben. Und ein weit gefährlicherer stellt der jungen Dani (Natalia Reyes) nach. Der Androide Rev-9 (Gabriel Luna), ein perfekter Killer, reist aus der Zukunft zurück durch die Zeit und will sie töten. Denn Denn von ihr wird einmal das Überleben der Menschheit abhängen. Ihr eigenes Schicksal liegt dagegen in den Händen dreier Verbündeter: Grace (Mackenzie Davis), einer Soldatin aus der Zukunft, die durch Modifikationen zur Kampfmaschine mutiert. Aber auch zwei Helden von einst sind wieder dabei: Terminator-Jägerin Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) hat so viele Schlachten gegen die Maschinen geschlagen, wie niemand sonst auf der Erde. Und sie bringt Unterstützung mit: Ur-Terminator T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) nennt sich jetzt Carl, lebt auf dem Land und kämpft längst für die gute Seite. Gemeinsam müssen sie die Machtergreifung der Maschinen verhindern. (Sky Cinema)
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Die Verbindung von alten bekannten sowie neuen Figuren kommt hier sympathisch rüber und Arnolds Sprüche sind witzig. Umso mehr tat mir die zu sehr digitalisierte, überflüssig over-the-top wanna be Aktion (am meisten die im Flugzeug) leid, die dem Spaß mit gutem Start das Bein gestellt hat. Weniger ist mehr, wenn man hier schon keine weiteren 100 Millionen US-Dollar für eine bessere digitale Gestaltung ausgeben konnte. Und der neue junge Terminator Mackenzie Davis ist zwar krass, aber uninteressant und asexuell.
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The T-800 lives with his family in a cabin in the woods, is an expert at ladies' curtains, raises and pets a dog on the porch, and just out of the blue decides (programmed, unprogrammed, it doesn't matter) to do good. In short, Terminator as a soap opera. Add to that the nowadays fashionable girl-power element (a six-foot-tall teenage girl is a leader of the resistance) and the last half-hour of overstuffed digital crap. And there’s not a single action scene with the charge of anything by Cameron. Sadly, the best – and in fact the only good – thing about the whole film is the ageing Linda Hamilton, who, with how poor her career has been for the last 20 years, clearly enjoyed it and had fun. Otherwise, a terrible mess that completely fucks up all the careful mythology outlined by Cameron. And as I look at the four stars here, people have either gone completely insane or they don’t need much to be happy. And by the way, in the cinema, my friend and I were in an empty auditorium all by ourselves, in the evening, in Liberec, a city of 100,000 and four days after the premiere. That, too, says something about the decline of once famous franchises.
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Das muss ich jetzt laut sagen. Das ist genau der Terminator, den ich noch aus den Kindheitserinnerungen kenne. Das ist genau die Fortsetzung, die ich mir seit der zweiten Folge gewünscht habe. Endlich etwas, was ein wenig Sinn ergibt und wo Arnold und Linda auftreten und das alles ergibt in Kombination mit einer ausgezeichneten Action einen Sinn. Tim Miller war eine gute Wahl und ich bin froh, dass sich James Cameron nicht nur um die Finanzierung des Filmes kümmerte, sondern auch um den Film als solchen. Ich erwartete überhaupt nichts, vielleicht erahnte ich Wut, aber am Ende hatte ich Tränen in den Augen. Der Film ist genauso gut wie die ein wenig veränderte leitende Melodie. Wir hören darin uns allen bekannte Terminator-Melodien, aber sie werden leicht angepasst, sodass man die Nostalgie der letzten Jahre klar spüren kann. Dazu kommen einige neue Töne, die man bisher nicht kannte. Arnold erscheint in diesem Film weniger, als man sich eigentlich wünschte, aber trotzdem genug oft dafür, damit man ihn nicht vergisst.
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There is one more pleasant surprise this year after all. I wasn't really expecting it from the new Terminator, and it's all the more pleasant. Tim Miller delivers a lot of action (admittedly, a bit too digital at times), but, most importantly, the right Terminator atmosphere. At the same time, he's not afraid to try new things that are more suited to the twenty-first century. Terminator: Dark Fate does feel a lot like the first and second movies, it's more or less one long chase, but Miller doesn't try to cheaply reference the older films and instead fills the screen with a lot of simply great, quality action. And with interesting female leads, too. The main stars of the new Terminator are three ladies who looked god-knows-what in the photos. Fortunately, in the end, they are charismatic and interesting characters that the three leads portray more than well. And Arnold? Arnold is the king! Although a little different than you'd expect. In short, Miller and James Cameron made what fans have wanted to see since the second film, while not being afraid to throw in a few modern trends. If you're fundamentally bothered by women getting more and more space in the male-dominated genre, Dark Fate will convince you that when done well, it's not only okay, it's very good.
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Uff The new Terminator is a huge surprise and the ultimate action flick! With a few exceptions, I consider this year one of the weakest in terms of horror and blockbuster films, but October kicks the whole year off on a more positive note. I don't remember enough of the older installments to compare, so I'm rating this one and this one only, and although I went to the theater expecting a seven, I left with an enthusiastic ten. From start to finish, it is an intense, raucous and uncompromising action inferno with a perfect cast. Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger were good, but the big surprise is Mackenzie Davis, who gets gave me adrenaline and erections at the same time during the action scenes, and praise must also be given to the indestructible Gabriel Luna, who played the bad guy with grace. There is plenty of action, it's very varied, each time very spectacular and the music makes you slowly catch your breath, especially during the final scene where M. Davis spins the chain, I screamed with relish across the cinema, because the last time I saw such a choreography was from Iko Uwais in The Raid 2. Apart from the action, I praise the visuals, the dynamic pace, some apt wisecracks, the juicy R-rating and a pretty dark atmosphere. Great entertainment that I always have served up with a smile and enthusiasm. 10/10
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At the beginning of this truly new and standalone contribution, it ends up being too similar to the classic first one, with new characters who are insufficiently appealing or simply poorly drawn. I was fearful for Sarah from the first minutes, and for me Dani was practically irrelevant until the end. Nor was this helped by the strangely undefined mood, which didn't keep me in suspense with any proper ending. In fact, it has no choice but to save the two most famous faces of the brand as a whole, where I just smile knowingly at their ultimate confrontation, but without them who knows if I would have stayed in the cinema to the end. The twist from the opening scene seems fatally wrong to me. To come up with such a retcon in a film that doesn't have a story set up by James Cameron himself, should result in a rating at least a third lower, because that kind of trampling is simply unforgivable, not to mention that the plot formula, which is ultimately followed, doesn't deviate from the original template in anything, it just voluntarily subtracts one original timeline paradox. I'm sorry that the long-awaited Terminator: Dark Fate remains unequivocally the weakest Terminator chapter for me, but I would really rather return to the bleak future of Terminator: Salvation or the action-comedy of Terminator: Genisys, even though that one alone deserves the subtitle "Legends" for how it messes with the history just to make it clear that the original saga is no longer being told here. But I would gladly watch the originally planned trilogies for both of these worlds even today, while I would never want to see more of Dani or Grace. The third star is saved by the infinitely diverse finale, which bravely replaces almost all environments and means of transportation. Which is a good outcome for a regular sci-fi film, but not for the brand of one of the most famous ones.
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From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the two greatest blockbuster titans, Arnold and Sly, competed with and responded to each other, but as we will discuss, Arnold always came out ahead because he thought about the audience and took everything with good humour. As their respective careers wind down, it seems that both men have remembered that period and brought their most iconic characters back to life. Both the fifth Rambo and the sixth Terminator are set on the border between the United States and Mexico and reflect the topical theme of migration to the U.S. Whereas Stallone’s entire movie slides into a feeble-minded conservative delusion, where he puts himself in the foreground, Arnold leaves space in the new Terminator for other characters to tell their stories. Though Dark Fate walks in the shadow of the first two films in the series, the awareness that it can never surpass them makes it possible to use its heritage to its advantage. Despite the fact that it relies heavily on fanservice, it does so light-heartedly and with charm, but it mainly has something to offer in addition to that. The shared scenes with Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger will please every fan, but there are much better and more essential scenes developing the character of Sarah Connor and even a whole storyline involving Grace, a soldier from the future. One could fault the film for merely following the list of liberal themes and motifs of today’s America. But like Cameron’s own films, Dark Fate depicts strong women not as a fetish or cliché conforming to the times, but simply based on the dramatic potential of female characters who, in the face of the given circumstances, fulfil their potential as active initiators of events and are cool characters. Likewise, the creators did not go the route of “updating” the franchise for the modern day (like the foolishly recombined preceding instalment), but rather used the dramatic potential of “minority” (in the sense of previously standing outside the mainstream) stories to strengthen their own narrative. So, even if one does not resist the euphoric statement that after many years, we finally have a properly entertaining Terminator here, it is all the more pleasing that it can also provide a properly feminine, freshly Mexican and simply functional perspective thanks to the superbly written and rendered characters. If you had previously hoped that at least Arnold would return in the next instalment, this time you wanted Linda Hamilton and especially Mackenzie Davis to return. ___ SPOILER -> ___ Incidentally, Dark Fate serves as a great practical example of the importance and power of representation for forming positive role models. This is due not only to the effect that it has on the audience, but also to one of the central motifs of the narrative, which is the dynamics between the characters, especially the central pair (where the film steers us toward anticipating a certain form of relationship in order to finally show that the core of that relationship is in fact admiration and respect). ___ <- SPOILER
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A solid action romp and probably to best sequel to Terminator 2, but it still smacks of yesterday’s mashed potatoes with a few added ingredients. In terms of story, it doesn’t bring anything new apart from the mysterious Carl and friendly Grace. The action and the special effects are fantastic, especially in the opening scene. Sarah is a bit too much of a caricature and the rescued girl a bit bland. Miller put together the next sequel that we wanted, but the only thing that it proves is that Cameron did the same, but much better back 1991. It’s raining naked ladies again.
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James Cameron's directorial genius and precision shines through beautifully when watching Tim Miller's Terminator Dark Fate. It doesn't matter if we're talking about the building up of story dynamics, the iconic moments and catchphrases, the dark vision of the future, or perhaps the action scenes. The steel mill scenes from Terminator 2 are two orders of magnitude more impressive than the dam scene in Dark Fate, which feels tiresome, sterile and above all too digital after a few minutes. It's not that the last Terminator lacks its good moments, which revolve mostly around the genuineness of Mackenzie Davis and Linda Hamilton, but it's still the same generic template of two robots chasing each other, they're just more imaginative, or more breakable, and every now and then Arnold shows up to prove he can still kick some ass and deliver some of his classic one-liners. It's hard to see where anyone got the idea that Dark Fate is the best since T2 and the only relevant sequel. Terminator 3 had more impressive fights and Salvation was pumped up with stunning visuals and a superb post-apocalyptic feel – pity about the finale. We can therefore safely classify the last film as a second-rate contribution, certainly not above the others.
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Aus Terminator wurde ein zweiter Inspektor Columbo – jedes Mal, wenn er zurückkommt, freut man sich darüber weniger (bei Terminator – wenn Sie zum Publikum gehören; bei Columbo – wenn Sie ein Mörder sind). Dieser Film… Hat einen vielversprechenden Anfang. Eigentlich war seine Anfangsszene die beste Szene im Film, weil sie mich überrascht hat und weil ich bei ihr etwas empfunden habe. Beim Rest war das nicht so. Der ganzen sich seltsam entwickelnden Geschichte ist es nicht gelungen, in mir das Gefühl hervorzurufen, dass es wirklich um etwas geht, dass ich Angst um jemanden haben sollte. Vielleicht ist es deshalb so, weil sich das wiederholt, was wir schon früher gesehen haben. Diesmal ist aber die "neue Sarah“ überhaupt nicht interessant, "die echte Sarah“ soll vor allem die Fans anlocken und Arnolds Terminator ist auch schrecklich. Bevor das Finale kommt, in dem er sich endlich selbst findet, verhält er sich eher wie in einem SNL-Sketch und nicht so, wie er sich in einem Film verhalten sollte, an dem sich angeblich James Cameron beteiligt hat. Die Heldin aus der Zukunft, welche von Mackenzie Davis dargestellt wird, ist sympathisch. Sie hat mich an Brie Larson als Captain Marvel erinnert. Obwohl sie mehrmals erwähnt, dass sie ein Mensch ist, habe ich bei ihr keine Menschlichkeit gespürt. Sie verhielt sich mehr wie eine Maschine. Ich weiß eigentlich nicht so richtig, was ich über ihren Gegner schreiben soll – vielleicht nur das, dass die wiederholten Aufnahmen von seinem sich zusammensetzenden Kopf /Körper schnell langweilig werden. Das betrifft auch alle Actionszenen, die zwar groß, aber langweilig waren. Der Film ist dasselbe wie Terminator: Genisys, vielleicht ein bisschen besser… Andererseits hat sich Terminator: Genisys wenigstens um eine Überraschung bemüht (auch wenn es dann dumm war).
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I didn’t mind it at all. Those two hours go by with a satisfactory terminator pace, locations (and their escape action) that alternate with a frequency that Greta Thurnberg can only envy from her yacht, Arnold dropping wisecracks and Linda Hamilton enjoying herself a lot. Miller pays homage to the first two parts and ignores reason defying stumbles like Genisys and Salvation, and the viewer can have some good fun. That’s it. There is absolutely no added value that would fully justify the existence of this redeeming sequel or that would make the audience fall on their collective asses. I surprisingly liked the new dimension of the relationship between humans and terminators (the only progressive element) and I enjoyed Arnold’s cameo to the extent that the established logic of that world would allow (so, from the point of view of the predecessors, I had to shake my head in disbelief when he started talking about curtains and changing diapers). The action itself is alright, but it’s missing Cameron’s drive and controversy, and overall, most of the new stuff and characters, when compared to the first two, feel like a quite unoriginal but top-shelf and entertaining compilation. 70%
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Die erste Idee, die mir nach dem Ansehen des ersten Trailers zu diesem Projekt in den Sinn kam, war, dass ich schon lange keine schlechter aussehenden digitalen Effekte in einem großen Hollywood-Film gesehen habe und dass es sich bei den Ausschnitten nur so anfühlt. Aber es fühlte sich nicht nur so an. Die abscheuliche CGI (sogar die Wäsche an der Leine ist digital!) hat mich von den ersten Minuten an gestört und ich konnte keiner (nicht nur der) Actionszene in dem Film glauben. Nur das Drehbuch hätte das retten können, aber alle Entscheidungen, die die Schöpfer dieses Films seit der ersten Minute getroffen haben, waren billig und schrecklich für mich. Einerseits lockten sie mit der Rückkehr des Produzenten James Cameron und der Schauspielerin Linda Hamilton, als wollten sie zeigen, wie die beiden ersten Terminator-Filme geehrt werden, aber gleich in den ersten Minuten wird auf den Hinweis auf Judgment Day so eine große Bombe geworfen, dass es einen wirklich verärgert - Haben Sie sich auch auf Eddie Furlong gefreut? Haha. Das alles nur, um die erfolgreiche Handlung von T2 subtil zu recyclen, diesmal mit uncharakterisierten neuen Figuren, wie es bei Franchise-Actionfilmen heutzutage einfach üblich ist. Die erste Hälfte des Films (aka die Reise der Charaktere von Punkt A nach Punkt B) ist eine quälend langweilige digitale Unordnung mit einer unglaublich wörtlichen "Girl Power" -Botschaft. Dank der Rückkehr von Arnold Schwarzenegger in der zweiten Hälfte bekommt der Film etwas Pepp und wird zumindest ein bisschen unterhaltsam, aber das ändert nichts daran, dass alles nur eine millionenfach recycelte Watte mit null Ideen und einem riesigen Spuckfleck auf den ersten beiden Terminatoren ist. Für mich eindeutig das größte WTF des letzten Jahres und obwohl meine Erwartungen wirklich sehr niedrig waren, bekam ich noch weniger. Momentan bin ich nur konsterniert darüber, dass dieser Schund von den Zuschauern allgemein akzeptiert wird.
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Achtundzwanzig lange Jahre vergingen, bevor der "unsterbliche" Arnie und die vom Leben gezeichnete Linda Hamilton in der Fortsetzung einer der denkwürdigsten Serien wieder zusammenkamen. Ich habe die Rückkehr der original Sarah Connor begrüßt, und ihr verbrauchtes Aussehen hat dem Film eine Realitätsnähe verliehen, die in der CGI-Überfrachtung manchmal verloren ging. Arnie alias Carl hat wieder für ein paar Witze gesorgt, aber ansonsten ist es reine Action, durchsetzt mit einigen Erklärungen, um dem Ganzen einen Sinn zu geben. Abgesehen von der alten Besetzung bietet der Film eine eher durchschnittliche Besetzung, aus der (nicht nur von der Größe her) Mackenzie Davis am meisten heraussticht, während Natalia Reyes mich nicht sonderlich beeindruckt hat. Gabriel Luna war als unaufhaltsame Tötungsmaschine nicht schlecht, aber Arnie und Robert Patrick waren eine Klasse besser. Der zweite Teil, der auch heute noch atemberaubend ist, wird wahrscheinlich von keinem weiteren Terminator erreicht werden, aber er ist immer noch besser als Die Erlösung und Genisys.
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"Finally, a full-fledged follow-up to the cult second installment", part three. The usual representative of the digital action movie trend, with centuries of deserving actors and constant annoying quotes. I know we can't ask Linda Hamilton (who looks so worn out that I had to look it up to see if she'd had a heart attack) to jump out of a helicopter at her age, but does even a burning car that just lies there motionless have to be added in post-production? Halfway through the calm force of Mr. Schwarzenegger's elbow thrusts is a light reminder of his charisma in the first (and best, get over it) installment, but the way he's injected into the plot is such screenwriting strangeness that you'll end up wondering if you just misheard (and makes the character of Alicia the most un-savvy character since Libuše Šafránková in Waiter, Scarper!). I'd like to see an end to this trend where every movie like this has to have more characters than a gym after New Year's. Out of every Terminator: Genisys I’m putting every Terminator: Genisys on a scale from Terminator: Genisys to Terminator: Genisys.
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I expected it to be much worse, to tell you the truth, but surprisingly I had a pretty good time. Watching the movie, I was nostalgic for the original Terminator, which James Cameron gave a unique atmosphere. Director Tim Miller certainly didn't disgrace himself, and came very close to the overall mood of the 1984 movie. Unfortunately, however, the writers didn't do much with the story, at times it runs out of breath. (65%)
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Definitive proof that the Terminator brand is dead. If this were some no-name movie instead of a direct sequel to Terminator 2, I wouldn’t say squat and give this a high rating. But no. This constant going back in time and rescuing the leaders of the Resistance is getting tedious, repetitive, and borderline ridiculous. There are no interesting characters or plot. Some might get offended, but sorry, Linda Hamilton just can't act (when I look at her work over the last 30 years, it's trash next to more trash). The whole plot about destroying Skynet and replacing it with Legion is as moronic as replacing Snoke with Palpatine in the last Star Wars movie. And most importantly, despite the absurdly high budget, the result is yet another soulless CGI, which, especially in direct comparison with Terminator 2 from 30 years ago, does not even come close. I can understand the favorable reception, but I just consider it to be a sign that expectations were so low after the pathetic promotion that even a few good scenes and jokes were enough to keep this from becoming an epic fail.
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