‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ First Reactions Call It A “Great Reboot” & Compare It To ‘The Force Awakens’

Search
Home

Fans of time-traveling robots everywhere rejoice! It appears we may finally have a decent “Terminator” movie, as the first reactions to the sequel/reboot “Terminator: Dark Fate” came out last night, and they are not terrible!

READ MORE: Studios Could Lose Rights To ‘Beetlejuice,’ ‘Terminator,’ ‘Roger Rabbit’ & More Due To New Copyright Termination Notices

Several theaters across the U.S. surprised lucky fans, who thought they were in for a screening of 1992’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” by showing them the upcoming “Terminator: Dark Fate.” Of course, we say lucky, but I bet at least someone was angry that they didn’t see the film they were there for.

It appears that after three disappointing sequels, all we needed was Tim Miller to deliver a “Terminator” movie that’s even half-decent. The early reactions praise Linda Hamilton’s performance and even the film’s portrayal of the Latinx experience. Comparisons to “The Force Awakens” were thrown out, so now we just gotta wait a couple of years before the franchise reaches its “The Last Jedi” height that has Arnold Schwarzenegger’s aging Terminator sarcastically throw out a shotgun over a cliff.

James Cameron Enjoyed Having a “Blank Slate” With ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’

IGN’s Terri Schwartz praised the performances in the film, declaring, “#TerminatorDarkFate is a blast. Came for the return of Linda Hamilton (amazing) & reprisal of Schwarzenegger (badass) but was surprised and happy to come out caring most about Natalia Reyes’ Dani & Mackenzie Davis’ Grace. It gave me a lot of hope for where Terminator will go next”

Freelance critic Yolanda Machado said, “#TerminatorDarkFate is a blast. Came for the return of Linda Hamilton (amazing) & reprisal of Schwarzenegger (badass) but was surprised and happy to come out caring most about Natalia Reyes’ Dani & Mackenzie Davis’ Grace. It gave me a lot of hope for where Terminator will go next”

Of course, no first reactions post would be complete without including Ben Mekler’s hilarious reactions (don’t panic, they’re 100% fake). He said, “TERMINATOR: DARK FATE is the Star Trek reboot of the Terminator series. Linda Hamilton is amazing and Arnold kicks ass as the T-800, this time with a major upgrade: fragile human bones. This is the sequel we’ve all been waiting for, a franchise gamechanger. #TerminatorDarkFate”

READ MORE: Jai Courtney On ‘Semper Fi,’ ‘The Suicide Squad,’ Being “Pumped” About The New ‘Terminator’ & More [Interview]

Directed by Tim Miller, and with James Cameron returning to the franchise as a producer, “Terminator: Dark Fate” also stars Natalia Reyes,  Mackenzie Davis as a cyborg while Gabriel Luna plays the new Terminator. During a conversation with Entertainment Weekly, Davis described her relationship with Hamilton as “hot and heavy,” saying she is Hamilton’s biggest fan, “We couldn’t have done this without each other.”

READ MORE: 

The film arrives in theaters on November 1.

Here is a relatively small selection of the hot takes from Twitter: