Terminator: Dark Fate
2019
*½
Director: Tim Miller
Cast: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, Diego Boneta, Tristán Ulloa, Alicia Borrachero, Enrique Arce
In the Terminator franchise, it is irrelevant what happened in the previous release, because the next one just starts over and tells the same story all over again. The sixth film in the series is a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which ended with Sarah and John Connor safe and both Terminator models destroyed. Never mind, the prologue shows that John was killed just a few years later by a Terminator. In the present day, a cybernetically enhanced human comes from the future to protect a young Mexican woman from a Rev-9, a deadly new Terminator model, and she gets help from Sarah Connor. Ever since James Cameron's 1991 classic, this franchise has been going through the motions. This is another lazy and incredibly mechanical action movie, which has absolutely no reason to exist.
