10 Franchises That Should've Quit After Two Films

James Cameron is undeniably the secret sauce in the recipe of what makes a good Terminator film because there have only been two good ones - the two which saw Cameron directly behind the camera.

The main problem that all the sequels which followed these two classics had was their attempt to make sense of the original time travel chronology and an inability to make John Connor an interesting character. After three attempts to create a coherent sequel around the T-800 (including one which did not even feature the Terminator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger) the franchise recognised that it would have to get Cameron involved to recreate that magic.

Terminator: Dark Fate decided to do this and made a big deal of the fact that Cameron was back as a producer and a story contributor but either audiences did not care or had given up on the franchise which bombed at the box office. Despite being the best entry in the franchise since Judgement Day it only achieved this by rehashing old plot points from the first two films and only managed to do so after three previous failed attempts over 15 years.

THE OFFENDING SEQUEL(S) ROTTEN TOMATOES SCORE: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - 69%, Terminator Salvation - 33%, Terminator Genisys - 27%, Terminator: Dark Fate - 70%