Dark Fate was widely considered a failure after a poor performance at the box office. However, filmmaker James Cameron thinks the film was good, and puts it high up the Terminator rankings. Speaking to Empire Magazine,

The filmmaker stands by his dialogue, though: "Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we’ll talk about dialogue effectiveness."

In 1984's The Terminator, which Cameron wrote and directed, a rogue AI called Skynet threatens the existence of mankind. But the creator of the fictional AI has not been hired to help avoid such tech being developed in real life.