Film: Terminator - Dark Fate

GENRE: Action, Sci-Fi

RATING: R for violence and language throughout
RUNTIME: 2 hours and 8 minutes

STARRING: Linda Hamilton (Terminator 1 & 2, Dante’s Peak, Chuck)

Mackenzie Davis (Halt & Catch Fire), Arnold Schwarzenegger (T1-3)

DIRECTOR: Tim Miller (Deadpool)

WRITERS: David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, Blade, Dark City),

Justin Rhodes (newcomer) & Billy Ray (Gemini Man, Hunger Games)

PLOT: Sarah Connor and a cyborg hybrid must protect a young girl from a new Terminator.  

FULL DISCLOSURE: Loved Terminator 2. The rest, not so much.

STORY STUFF: With James Cameron contributing to the story and producing and ignoring everything post T2, this story was pretty good. It’s not as good as T2 but it has some solid action scenes and interesting plot points. There are definitely slow parts and some plot holes. There were more than a few times when I was asking ‘why are you not doing ____”. Lots of fleeing in this film. It was like a violent Planes, Trains and Automobiles with a dose of Mexican border detainment.

ACTING STUFF: Everyone does there best ‘end-of-the-world’ intense dialogue. The tone gets a tad repetitive. Arnold is pretty fun and has some humourous lines. Not much else to say.   

ARTISTIC STUFF: Great action sequences. Lots of explosions and hand to CG metallic hand combat. While the new terminator has crazy skills, he doesn’t seem to use them when fighting Arnold.  Also, interesting how a destructive fight can happen in a plant and not many people react.

VERDICT: Three stars out of five

SEE IT IF: You enjoyed Terminator 2 and wanna see more stuff like that.

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