- Starring
- Yûya Uchida, Hiro Shimono, Shizuka Ishigami
- Creator
- Mattson Tomlin
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Genre
- Anime, Action, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi
- Release date
- August 29, 2024
- Where to watch
- Netflix
Terminator Zero unfolds in 1997 Tokyo, where scientist Malcolm Lee is developing an AI system named Kokoro to rival Skynet. As Judgment Day approaches, Malcolm and his three children are targeted by a relentless robot assassin. To protect them, a soldier from the year 2022 is sent back in time. This soldier’s mission is to safeguard Malcolm and his family while preventing the launch of Kokoro, which could alter the future.
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James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
7 comments
Sneeson
September 8, 2024 at 1:37 pm
Full disclosure:
I could only get through two episodes of this anime in which a lone terminator struggles desperately to survive against an unstoppable, invincible teenage girl.
it doesn’t help that he clearly snuck his way through Skynet quality control and can’t hit her with 100 rounds a second while she’s running away from him in a straight line.
Apparently, Skynet is now teaching Terminators that the only vulnerable point on a female body is the spot where their feet were half a second ago.
Men however can be killed by shots to the body and head but this should never be attempted on a female.
Granny Weatherwax leads the resistance and we get treated to family drama with the kids of a guy who’s invented an AI to prevent judgement day (He knows the exact minute the nukes are going to launch somehow) and I have no interest in finding out where he got his information or if he’ll be successful.
Wikipedia has saved me from hours of watching garbage and this is more of the same.
[email protected]
September 9, 2024 at 10:59 pm
My review is coming in as someone without attachment to the franchise. This is the first piece of Terminator media I’ve seen outside of parodies. Initially I was invested in the characters, and some interesting questions are brought up about what it means to be human. After Episode 2, however, I found there was a dip in quality with each subsequent epiaode. Time travel is overused as a plot device, there are too many instances of characters acting edgy and anxsty, and the dialogue goes on for far too long during some acts. Less is more when it comes to media, IMO, and I started questioning if the main character was a Gary Stu stand-in for writer and Producer Mattson Tomlin. Namco Bandai had involvement in the production of this anime, and with their commitments to DEI, you can see it in the final product.
worthitorwoke.steadily283
September 10, 2024 at 4:04 am
This is on point. Worthless. Like most (if not all) recent Netflix shows/movies.
DJ
September 11, 2024 at 10:30 am
Yet another show where every single positive decision or action is by a female where every stupid or negative decision is by a male. Had potential to begin but got boring pretty quickly, even after Skynet is activated, there’s not a lot actually happening.
Sweet Deals
September 19, 2024 at 5:16 pm
I stopped paying attention to the Terminator franchise after Salvation. Unfortunately, the above comments had me inspired.
When I was a teenager, the woke phenomenon as we know it wasn’t quite in full swing yet, but there was a similar phenomenon going on. It went by a lot of different names: “dark”, “edgy”, “angsty”, “gritty”, “grimdark”, and “tragic”. Whatever it was called, it was marked by depicting a bleak world where all the color and light was washed out, heroes had no redeeming qualities, and there was constant suffering everywhere. It was allegedly popular but I never really got into it. Not only did I consider all this dark fiction to be really depressing, but I also thought of it as pretentious. Adolescents are exposed to literature full of suffering and are told that there is a deep meaning to all the suffering. They copy the suffering part, but instead of being a sincere observation and commentary of human nature, the suffering often comes off as performative and completely pointless. It felt to me like a mediocre writer was trying too hard to appear more intelligent and socially aware than he or she actually was.
The pointless suffering that marks dark fiction isn’t quite the same thing as the absurd radical progressivism that defines wokeness or the arrogant self-centeredness that defines the Mary Sue mentality. However, I think all three are intertwined and stem from the same source. Human beings have a fundamental need to feel needed. They want to feel special and admired; that they have an important place in this world. When you’re an adolescent, it’s natural to feel awkward and inadequate. That’s why they invent crutches that help them dispel those uncomfortable feelings and substitute them with a false sense of power and confidence. Most grown-ups eventually gain real confidence and grow out of it, recognizing the old crutches as something obnoxious and phony that they no longer need. The ones that don’t end up becoming emotionally stunted and pompous adults.
Konodioda
October 17, 2024 at 11:24 am
You thought it was anime, but it was… No, not even Dio. Just woke American knock-off for leftie teens.
colorofmoney
October 18, 2024 at 10:16 am
Terminator is always based don’t think too hard about this one