‘Terminator: Dark Fate' Is No Triumphant Comeback

Who will save the “Terminator” franchise from itself? Not “Deadpool” director Tim Miller, producer James Cameron or even Linda Hamilton, it turns out.

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Yes, despite an A-list roster of talent, including people behind the scenes who theoretically should know how to resurrect this brand and move it forward, ”Terminator: Dark Fate ” is just another bad “Terminator” movie in a string of bad “Terminator” movies (although better than “Genisys”). And yet like the cyborg invention behind all of this, they keep coming and are really hard to kill.

This time it really seemed promising with Cameron back on board for the first time in almost 30 years. This film was going to erase all the confusing timelines set by all the sequels that followed and just pick up where “T2” left off.

It was also to be centered on a group of women, including Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis as an augmented soldier named Grace and Natalia Reyes as Dani, the innocent being hunted.

Simple, right? Not when there are three screenwriters and five people with “story by” credits involved.