Terminator: Dark Fate: 6 Things It MUST Do To Be A Good Sequel
1. Bring Back The Good Old Chase Element
The first two Terminator films were notoriously technically complicated movies to make. But their stories were in actual fact, pretty simple. They were chase movies; A hapless protagonist on the run from an unforgiving and unstoppable antagonist.
James Cameron's skill was decorating this element with a maniacally high level of fantasy and excitement. The killer cyborgs, the motorbikes, cars, lorries and vats of molten-metal, were all tools used to bring this convention to new explosive heights.
It's possible for Dark Fate to take on a whole new direction and maintain this singular style of movie storytelling. Besides the music, the iconography, and the make-up and visual effects, 'the chase' is one of the true defining traits of Terminator's identity.
'The chase' is also a convention kind of absent in cinema right now. Revenge, coming of age, and numerous narrative weaves exist to forge ever more complex movie-making. This in itself is definitely a good thing, but the edge Dark Fate might pose over its competitors is to keep the forever-workable thrill of the chase at its heart. While trends almost always do, this is something that never has, and never will, grow old.