It failed because it was dogshit terrible. They killed off John Connor unceremoniously in the first 5 minutes and replaced his role as the future savior of humanity with a Mexican illegal immigrant who spent most of the movie being hunted by a Terminator disguised as a Border Patrol agent.
Now if only they'd been stunning and brave enough to have the lead be a trans disabled Mexican illegal immigrant, and maybe had Connor sodomised to death to really drive home their disdain for the old, problematic audience, there's no limit to how much money they could have made!
It failed because it was dogshit terrible. They killed off John Connor unceremoniously in the first 5 minutes and replaced his role as the future savior of humanity with a Mexican illegal immigrant who spent most of the movie being hunted by a Terminator disguised as a Border Patrol agent.
Exactly!
Now if only they'd been stunning and brave enough to have the lead be a trans disabled Mexican illegal immigrant, and maybe had Connor sodomised to death to really drive home their disdain for the old, problematic audience, there's no limit to how much money they could have made!
*a Mexican illegal immigrant girl who will still be carded at a liquor store when she's 35 ;)
It failed because it was a Terminator movie after T2.