‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Feels Like the Originals
Movie Review
A top-notch cast (including appearances from some of the franchise originals), a hot director, and the return of James Cameron to this Terminator movie gives us easily the best entry into the series since Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
Terminator: Dark Fate introduces us to Dani Ramos who is a Mexican citizen fighting for the jobs of her and her brother while they are being replaced by robots. She is unwittingly drawn into a future war when a Terminator is sent to the present, and she is paired with several ragtag allies.
This one feels like Terminator
Unlike Terminator 3, Terminator Salvation, and Terminator Genisys, this is the first film since Judgement Day that actually feels like a Terminator film.
I’m going to give the credit for that to the return of James Cameron, who contributed to the story and was a producer on this film.
Back long before people kept track of social justice, Cameron gave us Sarah Connor, who was a kick-ass woman lead (and an equally kickass Ellen Ripley in Aliens). He doubles down on that with Mackenzie…
