Terminator: Dark Fate Trailer Reactions - 6 Ups & 6 Downs

2. Some Of The Effects Are A Little... Iffy

Terminator Dark Fate
Paramount

While a lot of the effects in here are great (and so they should be, because the whole metallic fluid Terminator thing has been their bread and butter for ages), there are others that are not great.

The sequence showing the new villain Terminator jumping from his truck through the air makes it very obvious that he's been 100% renders using VFX and he's got a very pronounced rubber-face look. It's almost at Agent Smith fighting Neo in the Matrix sequels levels of rubber-face, in fact. It actually looks more like a video game cut-scene than a live-action one.

It's not even like you can blame it on incomplete effects, because that's not what this looks like (it's usually very obvious) - it just doesn't look all that great.

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