Terminator Dark Fate 2019

    It’s been a long time (36 years) since the first Terminator movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.  Terminator Dark Fate still has Arnold and Linda Hamilton.  Linda has aged, nearly as much at Carrie Fisher aged in the last Star Wars flick.  We have a large cast but none of the other actors names mean anything to me.  Grace, played by Mackenzie Davis is a human with superpowers rather than a cyborg, Dani Ramos played by Natalia Reyes has Sarah Connor’s old role from the first Terminator movie.  They both do good jobs; this movie ought to help both of their careers. This flick got an R rating, mostly over a few F-bombs dropped here and there.  The plot is familiar, a super being, Grace, is sent back from the future to guard a good looking young chick, Dani Ramos, from an unstoppable Terminator sent back from the future to kill her.  .The movie starts out in Spanish, with English subtitles, which was a little off putting.  There is a lot of combat thru out the movie.  It is so violent that it is hard to believe that the characters can survive all the banging around.  There are some plot holes, such as the time they are riding on the top of a freight train, headed toward the US border, and suddenly, poof, they are in a nice clean new white pickup truck. 

   They spent $185 million to make this and it has made $261 million world wide since it was released in November last year.  Somebody goofed on the publicity, I never heard of it before seeing it on Netflix.  If I had known there was another Terminator movie in the theaters I probably would have gone and seen it.

   The cyborgs are no longer the bright shiny liquid metal from Terminator 2; rather they are made from soft and squishy black tar.  Yuck.  I liked the liquid metal better.

    Overall this was a meh movie, nowhere as entertaining as Terminator 2 was 30 years ago.   No good one liners.  No romance, neither Grace nor Dani gets a guy.  Sarah Connor wants to kill Arnold’s T800 character.  I remember Sarah saying nice things about the T-800’s fatherly relationship with young John Connor toward the end of Terminator 2.  She must have had some attitude adjustment for the worse in the two (or more?) Terminator flicks between this one and Terminator 2.