The latest movie incarnation of the game is a serviceable and adequate mid-range thriller. Aside from a couple of dodgy actor-replacement CGI shots, it uses its moderate budget very well on-screen to give the film a slick, glossy hi-tech sheen and is well shot. There are some odd (and large) plot-holes, but the film rattles along, city-hopping from one action set piece to the next with reasonable energy. The fight scenes are blindingly flash-cut with a love of close-ups that makes the film curiously intimate at times. The rather routine and standard story is delivered unfussily, but the need to occasionally remind the audience what is going on grates. Intriguingly, the film one step away from being a Terminator movie minus the time-travel/sci-fi trappings, with its two unstoppable emotionless killers and a T2 Sarah Connor-type figure, and it does beg the question: is this lean, stripped-back action-thriller approach what is needed to save the ailing cyborg franchise (that the bloated and messy Genisys failed to deliver)?
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