A hard reboot that ignores all of the films following Judgment Day, Dark Fate looks to inject life by bringing back both Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and original superstar director James Cameron as producer. The sixth installment of the series, director Tim Miller’s Terminator: Dark Fate, is the latest attempt at course-correcting the flagging property. As evidenced by the forgettable Rise of the Machines, the muddled Salvation, and the just plain embarrassing Genisys, the franchise is now officially more clunk than quality. Like an insidious Skynet plot, the Terminator franchise rears its robotic head every couple of years to reconfigure the mythos and recapture the groundbreaking sci-fi magic of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Unfortunately, however, Dark Fate serves up neither the nail-biting terror of The Terminator nor the white-knuckle action of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, all the while shedding the emotional throughlines that made them great.
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Touted as a return to form for the series and a long-awaited followup to Cameron’s first two sci-fi classics, the film is positioned as redemption for a series that has long been floundering and misguided. Despite the return of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and director James Cameron as producer, Terminator: Dark Fate once again proves that the killer cyborg franchise is running on fumes.
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