Synopsis
“Welcome to the day after judgement day”
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
Audience Engagement
4,652 audience reviews — more than 98% of China films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 96th percentile among China films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Terminator: Dark Fate. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Science Fiction + Action in China
23 China titles in our catalog blend the Science Fiction and Action genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Terminator: Dark Fate itself).
The 2018–2020 China Window
Terminator: Dark Fate holds position #149 of 219 China films in the 2018–2020 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s China Landscape
2019 was the decade’s peak output year for China — 86 titles released, including Terminator: Dark Fate. Bars below show how the 2010s stacked up year by year (515 total).
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 8m runtime, production spent $1.4M per minute on screen and earned $2.0M per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 85 other China films in 2019.
The 713th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Terminator: Dark Fate, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- mexico · 4
- plane crash · 2
- mexico city · 1
- terminator · 1
- cyborg · 28
- artificial intelligence (a.i.) · 21
- helicopter · 10
- sequel · 143
- time travel · 70
- dystopia · 45
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #540 of 946 China films indexed here (43rd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among China Science Fiction productions specifically: #19 of 41 (top 46%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | China, Hungary, Spain, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | English, Spanish |
| Production Companies | Lightstorm Entertainment, Skydance, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Tencent Pictures |
| Runtime | 2h 8m |
| Release Date | October 23, 2019 |
| IMDb | tt6450804 |
| Official Site | www.paramountmovies.com |



















