Movie Review: TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

The parallels between this movie and last year’s HALLOWEEN are striking. With the latter, Jamie Lee Curtis and John Carpenter returned to the franchise they created together (leading lady and writer/director, respectively, and not necessarily in order of importance) to bring new life to it, to recreate it and make it vital again. The same thing happened with TERMINATOR: DARK FATE. Linda Hamilton returned to her most famous role, and James Cameron came back as writer/creator, and they brought the Terminator franchise back. (Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, too, as he must be for the film to work, but he never left the franchise, appearing in all the films in some capacity.) Not since 1991’s TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY has the series fired on all cylinders, until now. TERMINATOR: DARK FATE returns the soul to the machine.

The lackluster performance at the box office for this film thus far casts doubt on the future of the franchise, which is disappointing considering how the ending leaves the door wide open for a sequel. If this does serve as the final installment in the Terminator movie mythos—and I sure hope it doesn’t—then at least it will get to go out not with a whimper but with a bang. A big, big bang. If you haven’t seen this one yet, heigh thee to a theater. This one should be experienced in its full glory.

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