In the wake of the poor box office for Terminator: Dark Fate – a film that is struggling to draw audiences despite the return of stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, as well as producer James Cameron – it appears that the inevitable may have to be faced: Terminator, as a franchise, can’t re-capture the blockbuster quality of its formative years.
Whilst 1984’s The Terminator and 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day both remain outstanding films today, decades after their initial release, the sci-fi franchise continues to stumble from bad to worse – playing games with its lore, breaking universe-rules, and creating a head-scratching cat’s cradle of a timeline. While appearances of The Terminator (such as in NetherRealm’s Mortal Kombat 11) still generates hype, the fallout from hit-and-miss comics, TV series, and video games has contributed to years of Terminator projects that can’t hold a Phase Plasma Rifle to the cinematic masterpieces that started it all.
And Terminator: Resistance – Reef Entertainment’s new first-person shooter set in this iconic apocalyptic universe – is unfortunately one more disappointing venture in a franchise that repeatedly fails to rise from the ashes of the nuclear fire.
Source: Destructoid Review: Terminator: Resistance